Idea Consultant

With industrial design experience contracting for Sun Microsystems, Corning Medical, Dupont, Xerox and other Silicon Valley firms, Karin has a strong background in design methodology. She also brings sustainable design expertise into the mix with experience living off the grid, farming and building natural homes.

Education:
B-Industrial Design, Syracuse University; Art/Psychology classes, UC Santa Cruz; building an earthship (or two), living off the grid for the past 7 years

Philosophy:
Hating war does not create peace. Loving peace can only create peace.

The Usual:
Not leaving the farm for weeks at a time, cutting down something non-native in the jungle, the absence of watching tv.

Idiosyncrasies:
Dreading any day that has something already planned or requires the use of an alarm clock. This idea that if I could half my possessions every year for the rest of my life it will continue to improve the quality of my life.

Swagger:
Relentless decisions to pursue leaps of faith. Able to produce all my electrical, water needs and pretty close to producing food needs on this land. Achieved financial independence so I am free to work for the joy of the project.

Interests:
Subsistence farming, architecture (what is the simplest, indigenous structure for this environment), ethno-botany, diamond heart work.

Personal Site:
Evening Rain Farm