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 David
A. Bainbridge was educated at the University of California in San
Diego, Earth Sciences, and U.C. Davis in Ecology. He has published
11 books, contributed or written 12 book chapters on restoration,
resource management, and sustainable building, and more than 300
articles and reports, for audiences ranging from Tree Planter’s
Notes to the Wall Street Journal.
He started his first business while he was in graduate school,
creating one of the first companies involved in environmental impact
analysis and reporting in California. His interest in environmental
planning led to a position at Living Systems, an innovative design
firm in Winters, California where he was involved in research and
development of passive solar systems and guidelines for energy
efficient development. He was recruited by the California Energy
Commission, where he was honored for his work on the state solar tax
credits, and later created the Passive Solar Institute. His early
research was honored by the American Solar Energy Society when he
was selected as the passive solar pioneer for 2004.
Frustrated by subsidies, regulations and incentives that favored
fossil fuels instead of solar energy he turned his attention to the
problems of sustainable resource management of dry lands. This
interest was kindled in part by his work on his parents land in
Colorado. An interest in agroforestry and ethnobotany led to
research on traditional resource management in drylands. He was
hired to assist development of the interdisciplinary Dry Lands
Research Institute at U.C. Riverside, where he was coauthor of the
groundbreaking guide to sustainable agriculture for California in
1991. His desert restoration work then led him to San Diego State
University and finally to Alliant International University.
His special interest in restoration has been categorizing and
assessing disturbance and super-efficient irrigation. He has
developed instruments for remote site infiltration studies, a low
cost recording soil penetrometer, ground profile gauges, and
explored integrated impact calculations. His irrigation research has
pursued traditional irrigation techniques, buried clay pot and wick
irrigation, and developed new systems using deep pipe, porous capule
and porous tubing irrigation.
He has developed and taught courses on sustainable management,
restoration ecology, sustainable resource management, environmental
accounting, and ecotourism; and currently coordinates the
concentration in “sustainable management” at the Marshall Goldsmith
School of Management. He has received perfect 4.0 ratings for his
teaching and a presidential award for service to the university. He
enjoys camping, canoeing and cycling in his time away from the
computer and classroom, and is working on several books on resource
management.
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