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Ianto Evans is a Welsh-American applied ecology, landscape architect, inventor, writer, social critic, and teacher. He is known for his work building, writing and teaching about natural building, cob and high-efficiency solid-fuel stoves, ovens and heaters.
Evans was director of Aprovecho's Fava Bean Project, in Cottage Grove, Oregon, where he worked to adapt to American climates. As a permaculture, he developed a polyculture planting technique. In the late 1970s, he invented the rocket mass heater.
In the 1970s, Evans worked in Guatemala and Costa Rica, developing the Lorena cook stove, an efficient contra-flow cooking stove made from the same materials as unfired brick (sand bound together by clay subsoil).
As a back-to-the-lander and natural building, Evans is critical of industrial civilization, corporate media, technology, and modern construction methods.
Evans lives in the United States, near Coquille, Oregon.
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