Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates looking to nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clean water at up to 5 liters an hour; beavers that reshape their environments while simultaneously enriching ecosystems; and mountains that offer a new way of imagining how a city could be built. By designing our homes and cities in harmony with the natural world, we can take the next step in the sustainable revolution.

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Discover the past, present and future of Neil Chambers on Wikipedia like his early career, Green Ground Zero and his philosophy on green building. 

Neil Chambers answers Vogue Italia's Ten Questions in a recent interview and photo shoot at New York City's Highline.  Find out about his next big project, the best kept secrets in NYC and more. Plus, see the photos too.

Neil Chambers recently did an interview with Josh Dorfman, GoodGuide's VP of Marketing, about the future of sustainability, Neil's new book Urban Green, and the future of design.  Find out what he said on the GoodGuide blog.

Read about Neil Chambers' talk at the Economist Magazine's Intelligent Infrastructure Conference on The Dirt, a blog that reports on the latest news on how designers are connecting the built and natural environments. From the article: "Calling for restoring habitats and using natural functions to solve our problems, Chambers called for 'the un-engineering of ecosystems. We need ecological not technological solutions'.” Read the follow article here.

See the CEO/Founder of Chambers Design talk about his new book Urban Green and how society can rethink infrastructure to be better, more effective and less expensive. 

Do hydrogen electrics represent the next emerging wave of vehicles in answer to the demand for green?
Neil Chambers thinks so. Chambers is founder/CEO of Chambers Design, New York, N.Y. His company consults in green building design, but Chambers says that has given him the perfect vantage point for analyzing a variety of alternative energies. What he sees is a trend toward plug-in electrics that he says don't contribute to a more sustainable future. Read the entire post @ about.com

Join leaders within the fields of architecture, urban design, energy, sustainability and others at Intelligent Infrastructure hosted by the Economist as they explore the future of infrastructure within the United States and around the world.  Speakers include Frank Gehry, Vivek Kundra, Neil Chambers, Nicholas Negroponte, Dickson Despommier, Thom Mayne, Fred Krupp and others. 

Neil Chambers, working in partnership with NYDesigns, New York State Energy Research Development Authority, More-than-Us and others, has developed an Embedded Energy Calculator to assist designers in making sustainable, impactful decisions in their creative process.  The Calculator is an online application that’s easy to use and easier to appreciate. It approximates the energy sums a project consumes in its production lifecycle, factoring in the stages of extraction, manufacturing, supply and installation wherever known and relevant. The project was at ICFF 2010 and was featured on Metropolis.com.

Neil Chambers, LEED-AP brings his experience to the pages of one of the best books about how to green office space in recent memory.  Aimed at real estate industry professionals, developers, and investors.  Edited by Leanne Tobias, this guidebook fully explains the best practices and methods for retrofitting an existing office building to be green—increasing the efficiency of resource use while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment. Covering numerous eco-friendly systems, this reference demonstrates how green features are definitely worth the investments they require. Case study examples of projects that have incorporated these aspects as well as how they were constructed are included.

In The Lazy Environmentalist, Neil Chambers, LEED-AP is included with a list of influential green designers.  The book, by Josh Dorfman, provides comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design of their bathroom fixtures. Covering topics that range from clothing to green building materials, home decor to home renovation, and gardening to financial investment, the book is a modern day reference guide for all things cool and green.