Michael Price Totten

About Michael Price Totten

Since the early 1970s I have been training as a planetary physician, which requires immersion in life-long learning in transdisciplinary thinking about the complexity of reality. I am the founder & CEO of ASSETsforLife.net, an Internet-based COllaborative Innovation Network (COIN) platform initiative focused on accelerating the transformation of cities to emission-free energy systems over the next decade-plus. Over the decades I have closely collaborated with several of the world’s foremost innovators including Amory Lovins and Jeremy Rifkin. I am co-author of A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge (2007), and as Conservation International’s Chief Advisor on Energy-Water-Climate co-led the design initiative for Walmart’s sustainability development goals (2005+). I served as Chief Advisor to U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider (R-RI) where I drafted the first major USHR legislative bill on preventing climate chaos (Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989). In the 1990s working with a passionate group of young innovators, we pioneered the use of the Internet, interactive multi-media CDs & apps to help catalyze ecologically sustainable development practices and policies worldwide, through the Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology (CREST). We were honored with the Lewis Mumford Prize in for these advocacy initiatives, given by Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). In 1979 I served as Executive Director of President Carter’s Clearinghouse for Community Energy Efficiency. Among my numerous publications include: Local Alternative Energy Futures; Energy-Wise Options for State & Local Governments; The Road to Trillion Dollar Energy Savings; and, ASSETs for Life: Wealth Generation Network (work-in-progress). For the past decade I have served as Pearl Jam’s Climate Advisor, calculating the CO2 emissions of the band\'s tours, and advise on ways to reduce emissions, shift to renewables, and invest in certified carbon offsets.

Experience

1. CEO

   Assetsforlife

   Jan 2013 — Present · Asheville, NC, US

Education

• Yale University

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Critical Analysis

  1968 — 1972

Skills

• Environmental Awareness
• Community Development
• Environmental Issues
• Energy Efficiency
• Solar Energy
• Sustainable Energy
• Environmental Policy
• Sustainability Consulting
• Energy Policy
• Public Policy
• Conservation Issues
• Collaborative Innovation
• Project Planning
• Ngos
• Sustainable Business
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Water
• Carbon
• Strategy
• Proposal Writing
• Biodiversity
• Strategic Planning
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Fundraising
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Public Speaking
• Capacity Building
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Ecology
• Energy
• Sustainable Development
• Social Entrepreneurship
• International Development
• International Relations
• Renewable Energy
• Ecosystem Services