In the 1950's Robert Greenway worked with W.T. Edmondson on the ecology ("limnology") of Lake Washington, in Seattle.
Robert Greenway wrote his first ecopsychology paper in 1962 as a graduate student at Brandeis University, working as a writer and researcher for Abraham Maslow. Subsequently he was the founding dean of Franconia College, based on ecopsychological principles.
For 22 years he taught ecopsychology at Sonoma State University, and developed the first graduate program in the country training providing training in wilderness therapy. Currently he has been working on a book on ecopsychology, developing an organic farm in Port Townsend Washington, involving himself in local politics, and contributing to the anti-war movement in the U.S.