Pliny Fisk's experience is in ecological planning, a new type of building design referred to as eco-dynamic architecture, ecological systems thinking and visualization. His Advanced Green Building Demonstration office/home has created what some refer to as the design icon for the next century. Pliny's firm, the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems creates designs that possess a rare combination of being whimsical and scientific, futuristic yet practical. His creation of a design methodology actually seems to bridge between Ian McHarg in ecological planning with that of Christopher Alexander in architecture and community development. In this methodology he combines a new method of analyzing eco-systems in their relationship to a energy/material balancing strategy on the land that is reminiscent of approaches in the field of industrial ecology. On a national basis the national material flow model created by Pliny and his associates referred to as BaselineGreenª establishes the environmental and economic baseline from which green specification decisions should be made and is speicific to various regions or cities in the U.S..

BaselineGreenª is presently being used by the City of Seattle, the Pentagon, the EpiCenter in Montana, the UT Health Science Center in Houston, and the Department of Energy Building America Program. GreenBalanceª, the second tier application of BaselineGreenª is a methodolgy that can balance greenhouse gases, SO2 pollution, methane and other imbalances through material specification. GreenBalanceª is beginning to be applied in part by the North American Development Bank to sustainably develop the U.S. - Mexico border. The Eco-Balance Gameª is a planning method that can be incorporated as a game or simply as a planning tool and is similar to GreenBalanceª but incorporates land units in an ecological footprint manner to build up balanced human/resource needs within site boundaries. Balancing occurs due to the recognition of incorporating the necessary land areas for sourcing and re-sourcing all basic human needs. The latter will comprise Pliny's main presentation at the PlanetWorks gathering as is being used by several eco-villages, and soon to be several campuses including Oberlin and HampshireColleges