Image Student Degree Areas of Study Sustainable Design Brendan McNamara is an all-around digital creator, technician, inventor, carpenter, farmer and ecologist living on the ecosystem-rich Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, surrounded by the plants, animals and family he cares for. Brendan is passionate about living within his ecological means and resides in tiny houses partially powered by self-installed solar panels and wind turbines, gradually building the acreage where he lives into a multi-family permaculture homestead in collaboration with his landlord. He completed his baccalaureate in business and organizational administration at Peninsula College in 2024, where he also received certificates in green building and fine woodworking (2019); for almost a year he also studied environmental policy at Huxley College of the Environment (2020) and greatly enjoyed it, but decided that his greatest impact would be made in the private sector. He's been an advocate for global sustainability as long as he can remember, using his tech and media skills to promote ecological concepts to the public, and has a keen interest in applying his love for biology, philosophy and physics toward turning waste into resources and achieving a regenerative society.