Alan Wittbecker is design ecologist with SynGeo. He has worked on local, regional and global ecological design projects (many in the Redesigning the Planet series. He worked as a forest ecologist for the Ecoforestry institute starting in 1993; he was editor of Ecoforestry the Canadian-American journal, from 1994, and he was Director from 1997 to 2000. He also worked 20 years as an ecologist for the Marsh Institute in Cambridge, MA.

You can reach him at Wittbecker.net.