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Daniel Fancher is an energy auditor working to save his customers money in ways that directly effect people through their new ways of interfacing with the natural environment around them. He has a Masters Degree in Sustainability Studies that he completed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dan also has a variety of certifications including those available from the Building Performance Institute, Energy Star, The U.S. Green Building Council (LEED), and he is qualified as a RESNET HERS Rater. Appropriate technology isn’t just appropriate in in the developing world and this has been a central foundation of the work Dan has completed so far. Dan started out his academic and working career being paid to research appropriate stove technologies in the developing world. This naturally led him to do similar research in sustainable building materials and their implementation worldwide. The research from both projects is available as a public resource online. Throughout the years Dan has also held a variety of positions in the environmental field in general. He worked with The Department of Environmental Conservation and the Student Conservation Association for a while and has experience in the field of aquaculture, more specifically composting the wastes of aquaculture, at a facility called Continental Organics. Towards the end of his academic career Dan did some work that furthered his expertise in appropriate stove technologies in Ghana through a partnership between RPI and KNUST (one of Ghana’s major academic institutions). This experience led him to comment extensively on how ineffective and misguided development of poorer nations by more developed countries generally appears to be. This became the subject of his thesis, which was eventually published and is now accessible to the general public. Dan’s personal interests economics and standards of living worldwide has kept him constantly advocating methods of living that provide a higher level of satisfaction in life in general and are integrated into his position as someone who works in the energy field.