Michael had a passion for playing guitar, and for fine woodworking to create guitars. Additionally, after edu at Northwestern and Stanford, while working in the booming Taiwan semiconductor biz, he nurtured an interest in the Dao (Tao, Taoism, or Daoism, a branch of Buddhism). He continued his Dao studies in LA, where he founded the Advanced Sustainability Institute and focused his consulting work on making the world a more sustainable place. With Dean Adams Curtis, the editor of this website, Michael co-instructed core courses in a sustainability certificate program offered by UCLA Extension, including a seminar on EVs and infrastructure. True to his practice of Dao (living in harmony with the Dao, the Way), he was a Dao enabler, lovingly bringing together humans to talk, feast, jam, and to explore paths to greater sustainability. |
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