Neil Chambers

Neil B. Chambers is an award-winning green designer and founder of Chambers Design, Inc and Green Ground Zero. He is the author of Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, published by Palgrave|MacMillian and a contributing author to treehugger.com. Called a "green design guru at the forefront of a new movement to make urban centers environmentally sustainable", Neil wants to intertwine the natural world with the built environment. He is a national fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and has taught at New York University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. With nearly 20 years of experience within the fields of green building and infrastructure, Chambers is recognized by his peers as a visionary and an innovative force for the future of sustainability. He has been featured in Architectural Record, Guernica Magazine, Eco_Design Magazine, Civil Engineering, Vogue Italia, BBC News, the Economist and other media outlets. He lives in New York City with his wife Lucy and son Thunder.