Personal background

Michael Waters is founder of the Alliance. His focus is finding solutions to global humanitarian and ecological issues, gathering sustainable technologies, designing sustainable homes and communities, and inventing or assisting work with energy, propulsion, transportation, food growth, housing and other fields.

Michael has a multi-disciplined background. He has designed and built custom manufacturing systems, multi-axis robotics, manufacturing equipment and systems. He developed an automated book preservation system used worldwide at institutions like the Library of Congress and the National Archives and was instrumental in recovery efforts of the worst library fire of the last century in Petersburg, Russia.

Michael also designed and built custom homes for 14 years using a variety of methodologies and has built several aircraft. He is a bush pilot, competition sailplane pilot and owns a hang gliding/bushplane ecotourism business in Costa Rica.