Velasco, who founded PLACE in 2005, has created projects that have won numerous awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Institute of Architects.
"A solution to many of the problems we are facing starts where you live," he said of PLACE's commitment to building affordable, zero carbon, zero waste holistic communities powered by the sun, wind and earth. "Look at the amount of energy we consume in buildings. How we look at the creation of communities is important for the problems of the 21st century. (We must look at) how we deal with people who are different from us and involve them in opportunities to thrive. Fixing the commute problem, the carbon problem and the poverty problem -- you'd be hard pressed to find a more pressing problems."
Velasco, who was invited to submit an opinion paper to then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on environmental policy for her Strategic Energy Fund, is a frequent keynote speaker in the areas of sustainable arts, live-work communities, ethical development, community and economic revitalization and the environment.
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