Kevin Stack

A biologist by training and a builder by practice, Kevin is the founder of Building in Nature’s Image™ — a consultancy and educational platform dedicated to designing and constructing the human-built environment using the laws of life as its guide. His earlier ventures, Northeast Natural Homes and Northeast Green Building Consulting (NGBC), former Certified B-Corps established him as a pioneer in scientific and ecological construction.
Kevin holds the LEED Fellow designation, the highest honor awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council, and also serves as USGBC Faculty. He is a credentialed biologist at the Design Table (BaDT) — a rigorous designation from the Biomimicry Institute that positions biologists as active collaborators in the design process.
Kevin has served on the USGBC National Board of Directors, chaired the LEED for Homes Core Committee, and continues to serve on the Adirondack Research Consortium Board.
Kevin applies the concept of moral imagination primarily in the context of sustainable architecture and environmental education. He integrates principles from biomimicry, resilience, and ecological sciences into building design and construction.
Kevin holds a B.S. in Biology from SUNY ESF and a B.S. in Forestry from Syracuse University, both completed concurrently in 1977, giving him a dual scientific literacy in living systems and landscape ecology that few builders possess. In 2014, he returned to graduate school and earned an M.S. in Sustainable Construction Management & Engineering from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry in association with Syracuse University. His published thesis — “The Origin of Ecological Performance Standards as Applied to the Built Environment” — is a scholarly argument for grounding building performance standards in ecological science rather than engineering convention alone, a question he continues to pursue through practice, teaching, and research.
When he is not at a design table or job site, Kevin is likely on a mountain. He is both a winter and regular Adirondack 46er (#8819), and the proud grandfather of 12 aspiring ones.