Through more than four decades of consulting on environment, energy, and economic development in Asia and worldwide, I’ve come to appreciate that our individual human health challenges and issues of global environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin.
Since childhood I’ve enjoyed remarkable adventures with the natural world, and as an adult I’ve worked with diverse businesses, governments and international agencies, foundations, and public interest groups. I’ve lived and worked in nearly two dozen countries, and my wife is 5th generation Chinese Malaysian. Our children are doing well!
As a college freshman I worked at local, state, and national levels during the first Earth Day celebrations, and was invited to testify before a US Congressional Committee on environmental legislation. As a graduate student, I was with the first group of American students to visit China after relations reopened with the US in the mid-1970s. I was one of the first three Forest and Man Fellows of the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA), and the first Regional Environmental Advisor (for Asia) for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Over the years I’ve met half a dozen heads of state and worked at all levels of government, from village communities to UN agencies.
I’ve hiked and climbed in the Appalachians, Wind River, Olympics, and Brooks Ranges, and kayaked a thousand miles of the Mackenzie River and half of the Yukon. I’ve had close personal encounters with bears, wolves, and lions. I’ve pioneered academic and governmental programs in environmental research, played a lead role in mobilizing tens of millions of dollars in funding to protect wildlands, develop greener energy sources, and prevent industrial pollution. Along the way we have halted or greatly improved projects that would have done irreparable harm to local wildlife and people. I’ve opened Washington, DC, offices for two of the world’s most respected engineering groups. Most importantly, I’ve worked with wonderful, amazing people all along the way, and helped to create opportunities to develop young professionals and local people wherever I have been.
A decade ago my wife went through several years of debilitating health challenges, followed by disappointing experiences with the limits of conventional medical care. I was pulled into recent biomedical research, nutrition, biohacking, and basic biology. Fortunately, my wife found a miracle in a recent bioscience breakthrough. Along the way we learned of and connected with doctors, scientists, and entrepreneurs doing amazing work, and began to help share their life-transforming knowledge to the public in multiple countries. Today we are privileged to work with some of the best of them, bringing cutting edge health knowledge and practices to anyone who wants to restore or improve their well-being safely, effectively, and affordably.
Threats to global environmental sustainability continue to increase, together with threats to human health. Indeed, the threats to planet and people are one and the same. As a life-long environmentalist, I am committed to helping individuals, organizations – everyone! – to understand and take actions to protect, sustain, and improve the health of themselves, their loved ones, their communities, and our planet. Together, we can think globally and work locally, sustaining the health of the world, a few trillion cells – ourselves! – at a time.
It is wonderful to get to know more about you, Will. I look forward to masterminding with you!
Will, the MKE is so very fortunate to have you onboard! 🙂 It appears you and I share a common bond in the health field.
You are at the peak of all those amazing experiences, Will! It is so wonderful to know of all your contribution around the world and also so very close to home in the health journey of your wife. You bring so much to our MasterMind at this time in our human history, that’s for certain…