News Brief

USGBC "Sacred Tree" awards

Winners of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Sacred Tree Leadership Awards pose with Council chair Steven Winter (second from left) and president Christine Ervin.

Photo: USGBC
The U.S. Green Building Council awarded its first

Sacred Tree Leadership Awardsin Austin for outstanding contributions to green building. Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, Inc. won the

Green Business Award. The

USGBC Leadership Award went to Rob Watson, director of the Natural Resource Defense Council’s International Energy Project. Pliny Fisk III, co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and New York

governor George Pataki shared recognition for

Green Public Service. (Pataki’s award was accepted by Timothy Carey, president of Battery Park City Authority.)

Published December 1, 2002

(2002, December 1). USGBC "Sacred Tree" awards. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/usgbc-sacred-tree-awards

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