Lonnie Gamble
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Lonnie Gamble is an engineer, educator, farmer, and community activist. He is the founder of Abundance Ecovillage and Big Green Summer, a 10-week summer intensive in sustainable design, where students live what they learn. He is a founding director and co-chair of the non-profit Sustainable Living Coalition. He lives with his wife Valerie in a straw bale home, where they harvest rain for their water supply, get their electricity from solar and wind power, and eat something fresh every day from their extensive gardens. He hasn’t paid an electric bill in 15 years. He is also a professor at Maharishi University of Management where he teaches courses in the Sustainable Living program, the first program of its kind in the United States.
