26 Facts About Paul Wheaton

Paul Wheaton is an American permaculture author, master gardener, software engineer, and disciple of the natural agriculturist Sepp Holzer.

Paul Wheaton is known for writing his book, "Building a Better World in Your Backyard", founding Permies, the largest website devoted to permaculture, as well as for creating and publishing articles, videos, and podcasts on the subject of permaculture.

Paul Wheaton received three Jolt Awards from Dr Dobb's Journal for his work related to Javaranch.

Paul Wheaton has participated in several documentaries, TED Talk shows, and conferences, on topics related to permaculture, energy, and software engineering.

Paul Wheaton was born in Moscow, Idaho, and raised in Eastern Oregon and Missoula, Montana.

Paul Wheaton began his career as a software engineer and continued to work for several private companies with software and programming.

At one time, Paul Wheaton had hired 14 programmers from Missoula, Montana to work on the Bananacom project.

Later in 2000, Paul Wheaton worked on the ground system software for the spacecraft that took pictures for Google Earth and DigitalGlobe.

In 2000, Paul Wheaton shared his views on lawn care on his website richsoil.

Paul Wheaton first documented on Permies his design of natural homes.

Paul Wheaton coined the acronym, which means Woodland Oehler Freaky-cheap Annualized Thermal Inertia.

Paul Wheaton is the author of many articles, published both on his own website and other major publications.

Paul Wheaton has expressed his positions on energy saving methods in a podcast hosted by Abundant Edge.

Paul Wheaton has been featured on The Joe Gardener podcast on the basics of hugelkultur.

In 2008, Wheaton created his YouTube channel called paulwheaton12 which had over 86,000 subscribers and 24 million views as of June, 2020.

Paul Wheaton's videos include interviews with Sepp Holzer and other notable people in the field of permaculture.

Paul Wheaton further presented his findings during his TEDTalk, "REALLY Saving Energy: Paul Wheaton at TEDxWhitefish".

In 2014, Paul Wheaton crowd-funded and produced a deck of Permaculture Playing Cards, where each card contained information about a different permaculture technique or notable people of permaculture.

Later in the same year, Paul Wheaton produced another documentary titled "World Domination Gardening", which featured a 3 days workshop of Hugelkultur, earthworks, ponds, and swales.

In 2015, Paul Wheaton launched a Kickstarter project to make a documentary of rocket mass heaters.

In 2017, Paul Wheaton hosted a Permaculture Design Course and an "Appropriate Technology Course" which consisted of a 14 days workshop.

Paul Wheaton set up an experiment to demonstrate how compact fluorescent lamps are not better than incandescent light bulbs.

Paul Wheaton used a combination of warm clothing, incandescent lights that produce heat as well as light, and various heating devices to keep warm while his 700 square foot house in Montana is set for 40 degrees Fahrenheit all winter.

Paul Wheaton introduced a lifestyle model called Paul Wheaton Eco Scale in 2010 where he categorized different lifestyles into 10 levels, where level-0 makes the highest carbon footprint and level-10 makes the lowest.

In 2011, Paul Wheaton demonstrated how hand washing a standard sized load of dishes can only use around a gallon of water.

In 2014, Paul Wheaton produced a documentary on mason bees which was featured in TreeHugger.