David Bergman is the founder of DavidBergmanEco, author of Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide and the blog EcoOptimism, which is dedicated to the belief that positive, often symbiotic, solutions exist to our environmental and economic issues. He is on the Executive Board of the NYC 2030 District and a trustee of Yale Blue Green as well as a former executive board member of the Designers Lighting Forum of New York and a former president of Furniture New York. He holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton and a BA from Yale.