Howard J. Brown has founded several business ventures to help companies align good business and environmental practices. For more than 20 years as CEO of Resource Planning & Management Systems (RPM), Inc., in New Haven, Connecticut, he worked with major companies such as Duracell, Avery Dennison, Mobil, GE, John Deere, Whirlpool, Warner Lambert, and Pfizer to establish or enhance their environmental practices and performance. His proven techniques are still state-of-the-art at universities and corporations around the globe today, and he continues to push the leading edge with new ideas. He was a founder of The World Game Institute and taught at Yale and at Wesleyan University. Howard was also student and colleague of R. Buckminster Fuller and is an authority on the social and economic implications of Fuller’s work.