Emmy Award winning Steve Thomas is spokesman for Habitat for Humanity International with special focus on the ReStore, Women Build, and the Builders Blitz. His most recent TV series was as host of Renovation Nation, on Planet Green. He celebrated his final year as host of television's most popular home improvement series, This Old House, during the 2002/2003 television series. 

He was honored with a 1997-1998 Daytime Emmy Award and nine nominations for "Outstanding Service Show Host." In between projects, Steve's yen for adventure, which he attributes to his late grandfather, a missionary in the Alaskan Arctic, inspired him to combine his love of fine woodworking with his passion for the sea and sailboats. In 1977, Steve worked as a carpenter on a 75-foot ketch being built in Antibes, France. Over the next few years, he logged many blue-water miles sailing a 43-foot wooden sloop from England to San Francisco via the Panama Canal, Galapagos, Marquesas and Hawaii.

In the early 1980s, Steve journeyed to the remote Micronesian island of Satawal to learn the ancient technique of star path navigation under the master navigator Mau Piailug. Steve's research resulted in the critically acclaimed book The Last Navigator published in 1987. The next year Steve returned with a film crew to shoot a documentary of the same title for the PBS series Adventure. It was in 1989, in between research trips to the Alaskan Arctic for a second Adventure book and film, when Steve received a call from the Adventure series publicist, who also worked for This Old House. The show's producers were conducting a national search for a new host, and the rest is history.