Ethan McCutchen is the Executive Director of Grass Commons, a 501(c)3 public charity that builds open-source software for gathering and disseminating information about the social and environmental impacts of products and companies.

Having majored in music composition, taught English in Russia and Japan, studied cognitive neuroscience in Scotland, researched primates in Thailand, volunteered in several Latin American countries, and backpacked wherever else he could, Ethan now does most of his exploration online. He’s into system architecture, sustainability indicators, human and computer languages, collaboration, community music, voting systems, and incessant bad jokes.