Seth Itzkan
Futurist, Analyst, Advocate for Sustainable Economic Development
CEO & Founder Planet-TECH Associates
240B Elm Street, Suite B1
Somerville, MA 02144
617-996-9174
seth@planet-tech.com

Seth Itzkan is President of Planet-TECH Associates, a consultancy focusing on trends and innovations for sustainable economic development.  Seth has twenty years experience consulting with private non-profit, municipal, state, and federal agencies on strategies for success in changing times. (See Boston Globe article, The Local Forecast, which prominently features Seth).

His clients include The Boston Foundation, The U.S. Census Bureau, The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and the City of Haverhill, Massachusetts. For the past four years he has been consulting with The Boston Foundation in the design, research, and implementation of a prominent feature of their Indicators Project, titled The Hub of Innovations.  The objective of this work is to highlight innovations germane to municipal quality-of-life improvements. 

Seth is profoundly interested in climate change mitigation and is investigating new approaches to the problem, particularly the role of soils and grassland restoration.  With his colleague Jim Laurie, Seth has co-authored a paper on the topic titled, New Considerations for Climate Change.  They have created a Google group, Soil-Age, to further explore the issue.  Seth is a gradate of the Tufts College of Engineering and the University of Houston Masters of Science Program in Studies of the Future.