Michael T. Voorhees
American businessman
Michael T. Voorhees (born April 16, 1967, in Fort Carson, Colorado) is an American entrepreneur, engineer, designer, geographer, and aeronaut focusing on the need for sustainability in technology, business, and societal choices. He is the founding CEO of Skylite Aeronautics and Chief Designer of the Skylite 500 GeoShip, a modern rigid airship being developed for passenger, cargo, and humanitarian transportation purposes.
Notable achievements
On March 2, 2009, Voorhees was named as a finalist in the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The Buckminster Fuller Institute's annual prize program calls for design strategies which “present a bold, visionary, tangible initiative that is focused on a well-defined need of critical importance. They should be regionally specific yet globally applicable, and backed up by a solid plan and the capability to move the solution forward.”
In 2009, Voorhees was named as a delegate to the inaugural Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise, which was convened in New York City by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Sustainability endeavors
Voorhees has worked in numerous areas of sustainability, including environmental impact analysis, authoring a study on “The True Costs of the Automobile to Society”
for the Boulder, Colorado Department of Alternative Transportation. In 1994, he received a patent for a gray water processing system designed for residential water conservation. At BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, his research focused on bioregenerative life support systems (also known as Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems) where he served as principal investigator on seven Space Shuttle experiments which were flown onboard missions STS-50, STS-54, STS-57, STS-60, and STS-62.
He has given presentations of his work on sustainable lighter-than-air transportation to such organizations as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the World Bank, the Bioneers, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Cornell University Johnson School of Management, and the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. On February 22, 2011, Mr.
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