Neil Chambers
Neil Chambers is an award-winning green designer and founder of Chambers Design, Inc and Green Ground Zero. He was named one of Tonic.com 50 Most Beautiful People Saving the World. In July 2011, his first book came out entitled Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, published by Palgrave|MacMillian, which reached #1 on the Amazon Kindle eBooks list for Land-Use and Urban Planning books. Passionate about cities, buildings, healthcare, habitat, infrastructure, biodiversity and ecosystems, his professional work drives to interconnect these areas into what he calls ecomimicry. He is a National fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and has taught at New York University as well as the Fashion Institute of Technology. During his national book tour, he visited more than 20 universities throughout the southeast, west coast and northeast of the United States. He has been featured in Architectural Record, Guernica Magazine, Eco_Design Magazine, Civil Engineering, Vogue Italia, BBC News, Fox News, Grist.org, the Economist and other media outlets. When not designing green hospitals, restoring habitat, writing for treehugger.com or lecturing about the future of sustainability, Neil loves to run, swim, bike and hang out with his wife Lucy and son Thunder.
Latest Stories from Neil Chambers
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Eight Cars Compared for Fuel Efficient, Range and Cost
After months on the road for my book tour, I put together two graphics to highlight the most common questions I got about sustainable automobiles. I made these graphics to let you be the judge about the cars.
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What would it mean If Micro-cars Ruled the Roads?
Micro-cars could reinvent city streets while reducing the cost of transportation infrastructure. They take up less space, and get pretty good gas mileage. Maybe it’s time to rethink the size of car for the good of the environment and cities.
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Five Things you Should Know Before you Start your Next LEED Project
The LEED rating system has dominated green building over the last decade. With LEED 2009 as the only option you can use now, and LEED 2012 around the corner, here are 5 things you should know before you decide to go green with the USGBC.
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How Biophilia Can Improve Our Lives - Part IV
Biophilia is the Therapy of the Future
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How Biophilia Can Improve Our Lives - Part III
Our mental and physical health is directly connected to biophilia so why aren't more people using it to shape society?
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How Biophilia Can Improve Our Lives - Part II
Series on the how Biophilia can Improve Our Lives. Part II deals with Understanding Biophilic Application
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How Biophilia Can Improve Our Lives - Part I
Biophlia is showing us that loving nature is deeper than our emotions, it's genetic.
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How Millennials Feel about Cars, Public Transit and Electric Vehicles
Millennials are not happy with the sustainable options for transportation
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Los Angeles is the Hydrogen Fuel Epicenter for Vehicles
Los Angeles is the Hydrogen Fuel Epicenter for Vehicles
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Gen Art: Will Sustainability be the Future of Fashion?
Will sustainability be part of the fashion industry in 5 to 10 years? Do the up-and-coming fashionistas feel the green movement is even important? These were the questions running through my head as I drove to the edgy and
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Urban Green in Wisconsin
Graphic Credit: Chambers Design, Photo Courtesy of Smart USA Wisconsin is not the first place I think of as a hotbed for green innovation. It's better known for cheeseheads, the Green Bay Packers and political unrest. But the Badger State is
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Is Smart the Most Sustainable Car on the Planet?
All anyone really ever talks about when it comes to automobiles is what's coming out of the tailpipe. But fuel type is only one aspect of a car's sustainability. For the better part of three weeks, I've been driving
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David Perkes explains the New Paradigm of the Public Practice
Photo Credit: Neil Chambers David Perkes does not come across as a pioneer for a revolutionary new way to view architecture and construction. He is soft spoken, and doesn't possess the desire to be the center of attention. However, his work in Biloxi,
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On the Road with Urban Green at Warren Wilson College
As I drove away from Warren Wilson College after visiting it on my book tour, I tweeted I wanted to go to college there. It's one of those places that you can't help but love. It embodies a
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On the Road with Urban Green - One Week Out
Today is the end of the first week of my book tour for my new book Urban Green. I've crisscrossed North and South Carolina to engage as many people as I can at some of the best schools in the
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On the Road with Urban Green at Winthrop University
Big surprises can come in little packages - and that's what I found when I visited Winthrop University during my book tour stop at the school. The campus is located just south of Charlotte, NC in
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Urban Green: Architecture for the Future Hits the Road for National Book Tour
Starting in September, I embark on a nationwide book tour for my new book entitled Urban Green: Architecture for the Future. The tour will take me to more than 20 universities and colleges across
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For Hospitals to be Green, Patient Rooms Must Be Right Sized
When's the last time you questioned the design practices hospitals? Never? Well, you should - of all the building types in the world, hospitals should be a symbol of good health,
