Storm Cunningham

[see bottom of page for abbreviated bio]

• Author, The Restoration Economy (Berrett Koehler, November 2002), and ReWealth!, coming from McGraw-Hill in May of 2008.

• Founder, Revitalization Institute, the academy for community renewal and natural resource restoration.  Revitalization Institute is a non-profit research and education organization based in Toronto.  Its mission is "to advance integrated renewal of communities and natural resources worldwide".

• CEO, Resolution Fund, LLC.   Resolution Fund is a Washington, DC-based firm that helps communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations ignite rapid, resilient renewal of their economy, their natural resources, and their quality of life.

• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Seneca College, Toronto, ON, Canada. Seneca is Canada's largest college, with about 110,000 full and part-time students, and serves as the global secretariat of Revitalization Institute.

Storm Cunningham is the author of 2002’s The Restoration Economy, which has been hailed by government and business leaders around the world as "Extraordinary", “Remarkable", "A modern classic", "A landmark work", "Required reading", and "The most important and valuable business book I have read in many years."  His new book, ReWealth!, is coming from McGraw-Hill in May of 2008.

Storm might be the only revitalization facilitator who addresses all aspects of renewal; natural and cultural resources, urban and rural communities, industrialized and lesser-developed countries, etc.  On any given day, he might be working with educators, fishery biologists, city planners, agronomists, watershed managers, transportation engineers, environmentalists, economic development organizations, real estate developers, GIS software firms, project managers, mayors, ecosystem restorers, brownfields experts, historic preservationists, or catastrophe recovery agencies.

He is retained on a regular basis to speak or consult with federal agencies (such as Environment Canada), state/provincial governments, metropolitan areas & rural communities, and Fortune 500 companies.  [Two examples: The U.S. State Department (through the American Embassy in Warsaw) sponsored Storm's Polish speaking tour (and series of meetings with mayors) in 2006.  In November of 2007, Storm will keynote the Ontario Economic Summit, an invitation-only event for the province's most influential public and private leaders.]  Storm also lectures at leading academic institutions worldwide on a regular basis.

Storm Cunningham was—from 1996 to 2002—Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Construction Specifications Institute, a 50+ year-old association of 18,000 architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers.  They provide training and certification for construction specifiers and document specialists, and their formats are the standard for quality commercial construction in the U.S., Canada, and several other countries.  During this time, he was CSI's staff liaison to the U.S. Green Building Council.

He was previously CEO of a small manufacturing company that developed aquaculture systems based on a pioneering water purification technology invented at the Smithsonian Institution.

 A former Green Beret SCUBA medic, he is an avid SCUBA diver, motorcyclist, and amateur herpetologist.  He lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Abbreviated Bio

Storm Cunningham is the author of 2002’s The Restoration Economy, which has been hailed by government and business leaders around the world as "Extraordinary", “Remarkable", "A modern classic", "A landmark work", "Required reading", and "The most important and valuable business book I have read in many years."  His new book, ReWealth, is coming from McGraw-Hill in May of 2008.

He is CEO of Resolution Fund, LLC in Washington, DC.  Resolution Fund helps communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations ignite rapid, resilient renewal of their economy, their natural resources, and their quality of life. He is founder of Revitalization Institute, the non-profit academy for community renewal and natural resource restoration, based in Toronto. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Seneca College (Canada's largest college).

Storm Cunningham was—from 1996 to 2002—Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Construction Specifications Institute, a 50+ year-old association of 18,000 architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers.

A former Green Beret SCUBA medic, he is an avid SCUBA diver, motorcyclist, and amateur herpetologist.  He lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

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