Greg David's life experiences include building homes, canoes, airplanes, patterns and molds, stills, stoves, sporting, farming, aircraft, and human-powered equipment. He has years of experience in renewable energy, including solar, biomass, anaerobic digestion, gasification, ethanol and thermal mass storage. He’s built with materials like straw-bale, cob, stone, steel, concrete and ferro-cement, composite walls, epoxies, foams, Kevlar, glass, boron and graphite.
Greg was a member of the 2006 Municipal Leader’s Tour of Sustainable Sweden and has studied The Natural Step’s framework for sustainability. He is a member of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors and was instrumental is shaping the county's land-use, biking, solid waste, air quality, highway and strategic plans. He has served on the board of a Land Trust, the Glacial Heritage Area, and RC&D (Resource Conservation & Development). He is a founding member of Sustain Jefferson and leads the Community Supported Energy project there, as well as helping organize their Maker-space program.
From 1994-2005 Greg's family ran Prairie Dock Farm, a Community Supported Agriculture farm serving folks from Dane, Jefferson and Waukesha counties. He has experience growing various herbs, vegetables, mushrooms, chickens, geese, peacocks, pigs and horses. He is an accomplished teamster and uses horse power for thirty to forty percent of the farm’s power needs. He has practiced permaculture on the farm for nearly 25 years building swales, prairies and various fruit, nut and biomass plantings.
His latest work includes building rocket stoves and biomass gasifiers, as well as a low-cost anaerobic digestion system to provide heat and electricity for the home and farm use.
