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Phillip Knowlton Biography Phillip Knowlton is involved in endangered plant conservation and managing natural growing environments for high quality chardonnay wines. He farms a small sustainable apple and mixed stone fruit orchard, and works to support a multi use wildlife habitat, and utilizes non-polluting sources of energy. Professionally, he has worked in the San Francisco Bay area since the 1980's in the arts, entertainment services and technology ventures.He is also a founding investor in several successful for profit and non profit ventures. . As an educational consultant he studied and applied his skills and psychological training to a new field: for-profit social ventures..His past interests have focused on small micro growth capital for social venture entrepreneurs in the newly emerging field of Humanistic Business. As a business adviser, he first worked in the semiconductor industry of silicon valley and in recent years for innovative software and Internet service ventures. He then naturally gravitated to the newly emerging on-line communities. He attended Boston University,and went on to complete an undergraduate B.A.degree in the Behavioral Science from Lyndon State College and received an M.A. in Counseling and Educational Psychology from the New Mexico State University. His doctoral thesis in Social Psychology was accepted, however he demurrers in ever completing final course work. He is married to Suzanne Fitzgerald and has two college-age children, Eric and Faraellen.
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