Arnas Palaima studied biology and ecology in Lithuania, Sweden and United States and holds Ph.D. in biology from University of Miami, Miami. For the last few years he was a professor of biology at University of Mississippi, Oxford, Advisor for Scientific Program and Innovations for the CDD, Inc., Burlingame and Editor/Site Profile Coordinator at San Francisco State University. He is also a co-founder and executive director of Ecological Economics Institute at Vilnius, Lithuania. Arnas is passionate about environment, diversity and sustainable development that include environmental education, environmental policy and green business practices.