Mitchell Joachim, [jo-ak-um] - is a leader in ecological design and urbanism.  He is a Co-Founder at Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE.  He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors.  Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and the European Graduate School (EGS) Switzerland.  Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto and faculty at Columbia, Pratt, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons.  He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the TED Senior Fellowship, Moshe Safdie Fellowship, and Martin Society for Sustainability Fellowship at MIT. He won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability, History Channel Excellence Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published.  He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To".  Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America".  In 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert Report.  Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for "The Future of the Environment" in 2010.