Biography[Note: Storm is willing to discuss a lowered fee for distressed communites or non-profits/schools unable to afford his standard $12,500 rate. Those able to afford Storm's regular rate are thus helping to support tribes, towns, or regions in dire straits.]
List of Clients. Client Testimonials.
Author, The Restoration Economy (Berrett Koehler, 2002), and reWealth (McGraw-Hill, 2008).
CEO, REVITALIZ, LLC. (Washington, DC) Resolution Fund is a firm that helps communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations ignite rapid, resilient renewal of their economy, their natural resources, and their quality of life. The primary function of the firm is training the public and private sectors to be better partners in revitalization, and connecting the right private resources to the right public projects at the right time. Resolution Fund offers the Places To Invest report for real estate investors and redevelopment agencies. REVITALIZ is also the creator of Revitalization Forum, the world's first web tool for comprehensive community renewal.
Founder, Revitalization Institute. Revitalization Institute is the non-profit certifiying body for community revitalization and natural resource restoration professionals. Its mission is "to advance integrated renewal of communities and natural resources worldwide".
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Storm Cunningham is the author of 2002’s The Restoration Economy, which has been hailed by government and business leaders around the world as "Extraordinary", “Remarkable", "A modern classic", "A landmark work", "Required reading", and "The most important and valuable business book I have read in many years."
His new book, reWealth, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2008. The Foreword was written by legendary 4-term Indianapolis mayor Bill Hudnut, now a Senior Resident Fellow at the Urban Land Institute. Bill Leary, former Director of Natural Resources, White House Council on Environmental Quality, says of it: "This is the book the Presidential candidates should be talking about! In reWealth! they will find the path to revitalizing our economy, restoring our environment, and renewing the quality of our lives."
Storm might be the only revitalization facilitator who addresses all aspects of renewal; natural and cultural resources, urban and rural communities, industrialized and lesser-developed countries, etc. On any given day, he might be working with educators, fishery biologists, city planners, agronomists, watershed managers, transportation engineers, environmentalists, economic development organizations, real estate developers, GIS software firms, project managers, mayors, ecosystem restorers, brownfields experts, historic preservationists, or catastrophe recovery agencies.
He is retained on a regular basis to speak or consult with federal agencies (such as Environment Canada), state/provincial governments, metropolitan areas & rural communities, and Fortune 500 companies. [Just two examples: The U.S. State Department (through the American Embassy in Warsaw) sponsored Storm's Polish speaking tour (and series of meetings with mayors) in 2006. In November of 2007, Storm was a keynoter (as was Bill Clinton) the Ontario Economic Summit, an invitation-only event for the province's most influential public and private leaders.] Storm also lectures at leading academic institutions worldwide on a regular basis.
Storm Cunningham was—from 1996 to 2002—Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Construction Specifications Institute, a 50+ year-old association of 18,000 architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers. They provide training and certification for construction specifiers and document specialists, and their formats are the standard for quality commercial construction in the U.S., Canada, and several other countries. During this time, he was CSI's staff liaison to the U.S. Green Building Council.
He was previously CEO of a small manufacturing company that developed aquaculture systems based on a pioneering water purification technology invented at the Smithsonian Institution.
A former Green Beret SCUBA medic, he is an avid SCUBA diver, motorcyclist, and amateur herpetologist. His passion for integrating economics and nature goes back to his undergraduate business major and biology studies at Windham College in Vermont. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA.