Jonathan Todd is the President of Todd Ecological Design. a leading firm in the development of ecological technologies for food production, waste purification and conversion, environmental restoration and systems integration for architecture and eco-industrial parks.

Jonathan as a child and teenager was educated at the applied ecology think-do tank, the New Alchemy Institute. His mentors included Dr. McLarney (aquaculture), Dr. Todd, his father,(ecosystem design and integration), Jay Baldwin (architecture and tool use), and Dr. Cashman and Messrs. Sherman and Barnhart in renewable energy technologies.

Jonathan developed an early love of the sea. In 1981 he assisted in the development of a prototype Ocean Ark, an advanced design sailing vessel tested in Southern New England. In 1982 he joined Ocean Arks Internationalxs Ocean Pickup project in Guyana, South America, where he worked in coastal fishery development. The project included the development of a new class of sail-assisted working craft and was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. 1n 1984, at age eighteen, he was appointed captain of OAIxs Ocean Pickup which was engaged in fishery development work on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. In 1985 he began working on tugboats in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In 1989 he attended the College of the Atlantic in Maine and received his captains papers from the US Coast Guard. He rejoined Ocean Arks International as captain of Aquaria One a hybrid wind/diesel fishing vessel that operated in both New England and Caribbean waters. Jonathan continued to work on tugboats until 1995.

In 1995 he joined Todd Ecological Design., first in pond management and then into the design, fabrication and operation of a wide variety of living machines and floating water restorer technologies for clients in Canada, Hawaii, Georgia, New Mexico, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Vermont. He continues to assist the design team at Ocean Arks International in the development of new water purification technologies for Asia and the South Pacific. He has also worked for architectural and engineering firms in the design of ecological exhibits, eco-industrial parks, and ecologically based theme parks. He has a keen interest in developing sustainable solutions for refugee populations throughout the world. Jonathan, with his wife Meg, cultivate a six acre urban market farm in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.