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.
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Sneaking 'round Passivhaus in Brooklyn
Last Tuesday (Jan 18, 2011), I trekked out to Brooklyn's famously hip neighborhood Williamsburg for an open house of Loadingdock5 Architecture's new PassivHaus project. When I got there, I found out the party had been
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Birch Coffee - A Sustainable Community Hangout
When Jeremy Lyman and Paul Schlader wanted to open a café in New York City called Birch Coffee, they felt it needed to be more than just another place that served a warm cup of Joe. Their desire was to create a
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Hydrogen Community Lolland - the Future is Here
In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland, located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they
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The Basics of Infrastructure
It's in vogue these days, infrastructure that is. Everyone is talking about it. Pronounced in-fruh-struhk-cher, it's phonetically brilliant. But do you know what it really means? With regard to sustainability,
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If We Build High Speed Rail, Will People Use It?
Is high-speed rail a good investment for Americans? That is what most leaders, political figures and advocates try to answer the majority of the time. Yet, that may be the wrong question. A better question is: would
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Turn Black Friday Green, Part II: Green Silence
Shopping the day after Thanksgiving is typically frowned on by many in the "responsible" movement. But if you just can't help yourself - do it with a little green flair. Buy that sports enthusiast a pair of Green Silence by
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Turn Black Friday Green, Part I: KIND Towels
If you must shop the day after Thanksgiving, at least buy something sultry and green. Joel Fitzpatrick, famous for making Hush Puppies a household name, has launched KIND towels to put a little desire back into your cloth
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Design Competition for Pedestrian Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island
The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the Providence River.
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The Path to Lithium Batteries: Friend or Foe?
Photo Credit: Argonne National Laboratory/Creative Commons Fixing America's infrastructure (and many other countries') is high on the priority list of greenies and world leaders alike. Two solutions, smart grids and electric cars, are championed by many
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XBOX Kinect Launch in Times Square Powered by Biofuel
In the middle of Times Square on a cold November evening, XBOX launched its new controller-free gaming system Kinect. In NYC fashion, it was a gigantic party with lights, cameras, hundreds of dancers, performances by Ne-Yo and
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Smart Grids are a Dumb Idea
Source: Ecomii Infrastructure is getting lots of attention. One area specifically is smart grids. They are to replace the current out-of-date energy grid that supplies energy to the US. Advocates say it is necessary to modernize the electrical system to
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Mercedes Unveils Tree of Innovation at Oscars
This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the S400 HYBRID and
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New York City and Energy Code Changes
Photo by Andrew H. Walker Energy Code sounds like a dull topic, but if you're hope is to see things like energy use or carbon emissions reduced - energy codes are at the heart and soul of your desires. Considering the fact that energy codes are only
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RESTORE Clothing Review - Wearing is Believing
Anthony and Celeste Lilore, creators of RESTORE Clothing, are an eco-force to sit-up and play attention to. While other clothing brands merely skirt under the minimum requirements to be called green - the Lilore team put
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Trudie Styler talks Crude about Oil in Ecuador
Photo Credit: Juan Diego Pérez Trudie Styler is many things - a UNICEF ambassador, a human rights activist, a co-founder of Rainforest Foundation and, of course, the wife of the musician Sting. In September, she came to the big screen (or more likely
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Belgrave Trust on Carbon Offsets for the Affluent
The dirty, stinking rich! Yeah, I said it! They are always getting called-out for their imbalanced percentage of environmental destruction. For example, the average American's carbon footprint is 2000 times bigger than the average person living in
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Is LEED Breaking Up with FSC-Certified Wood?
After a long-lasting and loving monogamous relationship between the US Green Building Council and the Forest Stewardship Council, it seems the USGBC is considering, not a break up, but definitely thinking
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Talking Green Cars with Sascha Simon, Advanced Product Planning for Mercedes-Benz USA
Sascha Simon is responsible for strategic planning of product management for Mercedes Benz USA. Bascially, that means that he ensures that future Mercedes products give consumers what they want how they want it while Mercedes continues to produce
