Big Green: Re: pioneers of green building--who are they?

[Ian Theaker]

Nadav hit it bang on - what a fun question!


Canadian pioneers who've made immense contributions, from personal
experience:

Dr. Ray Cole (University of BC School of Architecture & Landscape
Architecture)
	- pioneer of N.Am. GB rating systems, starting with BEPAC in the
early 90s

David Rousseau (Archemy Consulting, BC)
	- tied health & enviro impact of buildings together with several
early 90s books ("Healthy by Design", "Environmental by Design"); still
working hard, quietly, effectively

Joanne Perdue (now University of Calgary); Eva Matsuzaki (Matsuzaki Wright
Architects); Freda Pagani (then University of BC)
	- project architect, partner in charge & client project mgr
respectively for C.K. Choi, the first consciously green ICI building in BC 

Jack Meredith (Healthy Green Buildings, BC)
	- sparkplug behind the original green building team with the BC
govt, fostering GBs in BC and Canada since the 70s

Alex Zimmerman (Applied Green Consulting, BC)
	- leader of several Canada's Green/Sustainable Building Challenge
teams, and first President of the CaGBC

Steve Carpenter (Enermodal Engineering, Ontario)
	- pick an efficient window - the label, and much else is due to
Enermodal's efforts

Greg Allen (now HOK Toronto)
	- Toronto energy engineer & tireless advocate since the early 70s

Mark Riley (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp)
	- R2000 program! & key patron of Canadian building science

In the US: 
David Eisenberg (Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT),
Arizona)
	- lone advocate for building code reform on GB issues for decades

Bill Reed (Natural Logic)
	- helped bring LEED into Canada, and much much more

Pliny Fisk (Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, or "Max's Pot")
	- sparkplug behind the original - Austins' green building guidelines

Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute)
	- of course!

John Todd (UVM)
	- started with New Alchemy Institute in the 70s, and has never
stopped

Charlie Brown (U Oregon Architecture)
	- researcher, teacher, advocate 

Steve Selkowitz (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Windows Group)
	- still providing the key research, numbers and publications

Steven Strong (Solar Design Associates)
	- founder, in early 80s - need I say more?

John Duffie and William Beckman
	- "Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes"! 

I wholeheartedly concur with others suggestions, whose impacts I see daily:
- Ed Mazria 
- Michael Reynolds
- Peter Busby
- William McDonough
- Kenneth Yeang
- Paul Hawkins
- Kevin Hydes
- David Orr
- Sandy Wiggins
- Bill Dunster
- Bob Berkebile 
- Greg Franta
- Susan Maxman
- Gail Lindsey

Damn - where do you *stop*...?

I'm immensely grateful to these folks, not least because almost all, and
many others (some of whom replied to this post) are still pushing hard -
often as unpaid volunteers with the Canada and US Green Building Councils.  

"We stand on the shoulders of giants."


Warm regards,
Ian Theaker    P.Eng.
			LEED Technical Manager
			Canada Green Building Council, West Coast office
			319 West Pender St., Ste. 310
			Vancouver, BC  V6B 1T3

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