Bananas in Snow Country

Rob Knapp taught for decades at Evergreen State College, an innovative, largely undergraduate institution near Seattle in the USA. Evergreen is widely known for interdisciplinary studies. He has been visiting professor or scholar most recently at Waseda University, Tokyo, and previously at the University of London (Transport Studies Group), Cornell University (Program on Science, Technology and Society), Kobe University of Commerce, and Hawaii Community College. His training in physics at Harvard and Oxford has provided a base for teaching and scholarship on energy studies, especially on the user side (efficiency and conservation). Now retired, he continues research on green architecture for mainstream buildings, with emphasis on the interplay of technical, organizational, and emotional forces in the design process and in ongoing operation.