Energyshed Concept Author
John Evarts
John is an avid sustainability explorer and the author of the Energyshed Framework. He is a trans-disciplinarian and advocate of a systems perspective. John enjoys sharing his unique education background and experience
John was a career naval officer (1991-2011) with specialty in submarining and nuclear engineering. Submarines are a small self-contained world requiring close and continual attention to atmosphere, energy, resource, and waste management. As a graduate of the US Naval Academy in 1991 and University of Idaho (MPA, 1998), service and community well-being were always top-of-mind.
He first encountered the term sustainability while studying civil engineering (environmental) at the University of New Mexico in 2006. John further pursued sustainability at Dalhousie University (MES, 2016) where he designed the Energyshed Framework and published it as his thesis. John enjoyed teaching sustainability with the Dalhousie College of Sustainability and participated in the launch of the Sustainability Leadership Certificate program.
After his time at Dalhousie University John worked with the private sector with Unisys Corporation on the Advanced Data Analytics team and then moved to SAIC as an Enterprise Solutions Architect specializing in data system designs supporting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications serving multiple US Federal agencies during his tenure (2017-2022).
John currently lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada and manages a tract of land where he is designing sustainable methods for capacity building and resiliency. He is happily married and has three adult children.