David Benjamin, Ph.D., is a senior advisor at Todd Ecological Design. Dr. Benjamin is the owner and principal of the building, urban design, and heritage management firm of Environmental Design Partners, Inc., based in Ohio, and has experience with the design and construction of various building types, as well as designing and running community design participation workshops and charrettes. He is certified by the National Charrette Institute as a Public Meeting Facilitator, the United States Green Building Council as a LEED Accredited Professional, and has published in scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and conference proceedings on the subject of the home, both as a concept and an element of the built environment, and was a judge on the jury of the first Bahamian government Eco-Lodge Design Competition in 2001, sanctioned by the UN and the Inter-American Development Bank. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982, and went on for his apprenticeship to work with architects in New York, Ohio, and Norway, up to 1988. That year he began the PhD (Doktor Ingenieur degree in Norway) program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, where he received the degree in late 1993 for his work on how domestic architecture relates the meaning of home to local ecologies in pre-historic Scandinavia.