Josh Kearns
Josh Kearns holds bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and environmental engineering from Clemson University and a master’s degree in environmental biogeochemistry from the University of California-Berkeley. He has worked as a researcher and activist in the fields of ecological economics and sustainability science both in academia and in the non-profit NGO sector. Josh is certified in permaculture design, and has studied and practiced a variety of sustainable and self-reliant living techniques throughout the US and Asia including natural building and ecological agriculture.
His interest in local self-reliance and appropriate technologies led him to found Aqueous Solutions in June of 2007 – a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific research, development and promotion of inexpensive, low-tech and sustainable drinking water purification systems.
Josh is also a prolific writer, developing themes in topics as diverse as agrariansim, ecology, social responsibility in science, Buddhism, Taoism and Eastern philosophy, criticism of economics, globalization and ‘development’, local self-reliance, and adventure and eco-travel. His articles and essays have been widely published both on-line and in print media.
Josh is an avid endurance athlete and enjoys long-distance trail running, road and mountain cycling and bicycle touring, and open-water swimming. Josh is a homebrewed-beer enthusiast and also a bluegrass musician – he plays mandolin and guitar, sings lead, and on occasion attempts to sing harmony. Among his professional aspirations are to build a log cabin in the mountains using only hand tools and to farm using power from draft animals.
I’ve been checking out this site and researching Pun Pun along with the Chang Mai region as I am heading to Thailand on the 9th and friends who visited the area strongly suggested I do so. I was curious of your whereabouts over the next couple months as I’m really interested in what you’re doing and would at the very least like to come and check it out first hand. I’m on a round the world venture and currently in the Philippines but should make it to Chang Mai around the third week in January. Also from a fellow homebrewer’s perspective I’d be curious to see your draft preference. Let me know what you think!
-Quinn
Hi Quinn - I’ll be around Pun Pun for most of February and early March. Plan to be traveling in the south for the last two weeks of January. If you come into the area send me and email and maybe we can arrange to meet up.
JK