BIOS
Scott T. Edmondson, AICP
Founder / Principal
Scott enjoys grappling with the sustainability challenge, forging understanding, developing new tools, and undertaking path-breaking initiatives. He pursues these interests while helping people, organizations, and communities harness the transformational power and potential of sustainability to create a new biological basis for resilient communities, businesses, and regions rooted in an ecological innovative economics and design that generates high levels of durable economic community prosperity, security, and well being.
Scott has an MAAUP degree from UCLA with a concentration in urban, regional, and international development; a BA from UCB in international development and global environmental sustainability studies; one year in an MS program in public policy analysis (U. of Rochester), 1.5 years in UCLA's Planning Ph.D. program, and 0.5 years in SFSU's MBA program. He has expertise in economics, public policy research and analysis, strategic decision process and analysis; and 25 years of practice in environmental review (EIP-12 yrs; independent 5yrs), facilities planning (Kaiser, 3 yrs), and long range planning (City/County of SF-5yrs).
His long-standing interest in sustainability includes work with the OECD on sustainable urban economic development (1983-84), advising the SF Sustainability Plan (1996) and co-leading its economic development group, being a participant and SF Planning Department Liaison for the BAASC Compact and Footprint project (2002/3), drafting a new General Plan Land Use Element to amplify place making and sustainability, adding sustainability to a labor-management partnership (SF-UCP, 2005), and writing and presentations.
He has recently deepened his expertise in strategic sustainability through training in The Natural Step (BTH, TNS-USA, ICSP,), developing a strategy and action plan with TNS-USA to support APA’s sustainability planning with a strategic approach, and proposing, developing, and co-chairing a Sustainability Committee and a sustainability planning learning-practice network—the Plan-It Sustainable Network--for the APA California Northern Section.
Scott is also a member of the APA Sustainable Places Initiative’s Corresponding Committee. The Committee's mission is to broaden the Initiative over time. It is providing comments (Aug. 2011) to the Task Force preparing the Initiative's first report on the role of comprehensive planning in sustaining places. Scott pursues his professional strategic sustainability interests through the development and work of the Sustainability 2030 Institute.
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