Jennifer Greene
Executive Director

Currently, Jennifer Greene serves as a leading spokesperson for environmental concerns and the nature of water. She is an outspoken advocate for the need for wholistic education and research into understanding the processes of Nature and Sustainability. Her in-depth experience and research has led her to conclude that we must become better observers of the processes of Nature, for in our current reductionist thinking and analytical processes much is being lost of the whole picture. She is attracting increasing attention from the international community, including the United Nations.

In 1980, Greene pioneered the work with flow forms in the United States. Since this time, she has also given water workshops at schools, universities, and environmental conferences in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, and most recently in Switzerland. Through these presentations with hands-on experiments and with observation of water flow phenomena, the forms and patterns reveal the more hidden nature of water, leading to a deeper understanding of this element as a purveyor of life. The phenomenological approach with water is based on the work of Theodor Schwenk, author of the book "Sensitive Chaos", a classic in this field, and on "Understanding Water" published by institute for Flow Sciences in Germany.

In 1985, after consulting Dr. Kathe Seidel of the Max-Planck Institute and the pioneer of wastewater and sludge treatment, Greene worked with Lawrence Banks and Scott Davis of Reed Systems, Inc. in the United States. They brought the work from the laboratory to successful field applications in over 100 municipal, EPA, and state regulatory approved reed bed installations in a dozen states. There are currently over a million square feet of constructed wetland beds under the aegis of Banks, Davis, and Greene. Greene is consulting on wastewater, sludge, and surface water management in Canada and in the United States.

In 1984, Greene trained in Switzerland in the Drop-Picture Method of diagnosing water quality and has the only Drop-Picture laboratory in the U.S. The Water Research Institute, of which she is the director, works in association with the Institut für Strömungswissenschaften (Institute for Flow Sciences founded by Theodor Schwenk). She works on phenomenological studies and has worked on water quality research using the Drop-Picture Method and phenomenology based on the work of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.

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