Stan Ingman, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Applied Gerontology at the University of North Texas. He holds degrees in Botany from Miami University, Rural Sociology from Ohio State University and Medical Sociology from University of Pittsburgh. As Director of the Center for Public Service at the University of North Texas, he designed a healthy neighborhood program in 1995 that was installed in South Dallas and the Sustainable Communities Review in 1997. He is the current President of Future Without Poverty, Inc. that is dedicated to reducing poverty employing the four E’s of sustainability: improving enterprises, environmental preservation, sustainable- oriented education and finally, empowering citizens to bring about reform. Empowering residents and workers in communities and institutions to have the power for self-determinations of their daily lives has been at the core of his research for some 60 years. His dissertation completed in 1971 was, in part, a story about how miners took more control of their work lives and health, and created their own medical care delivery system, some of the first HMOs in the nation.