Greenprints History - A Brief Primer
In 1998, Southface and the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority organized the first Greenprints Conference and Tradeshow to address the Southeast’s green building challenges and opportunities. Since then, Greenprints has provided a dynamic learning experience for building scientists, design professionals and community members to share and interact in a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment.
Over the years, Greenprints has attracted some of the sustainable building sector’s most innovative thinkers from leading agencies and organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency, United Nations, Department of Energy, Architecture and Earth Policy Institute.
2010 Greenprints program reference - pdf
Past Conferences
Greenprints 2010
Keynote Panel: John Straube, Building Science Corp; Alex Wilson, BuildingGreen
Visionary Speaker: Jigar Shah, Carbon War Room
Other Highlights: The Water Sense program, the new IECC code, indoor air quality, national trends in development policies.
Keynote Speaker: Ed Mazria, Architecture 2030
Visionary Speaker: Bracken Hendricks, American Progress senior fellow
Highlights: Architecture 2030 Challenge
Greenprints 2008
Keynote Speaker: Kenneth J. Ostrowski, McKinsey & Company
Visionary Speaker: Richard Fedrizzi, U.S. Green Building Council founding chairman
Greenprints 2007
Keynote Speaker: Terri Montague, Atlanta BeltLine Inc.
Visionary Speaker: Quayle Hodek, Renewable Choice Energy founder and chief executive officer
Greenprints 2006
Keynote Speaker: Martin Melaver, Melaver, Inc.
Visionary Speaker: Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute president
Highlights: Alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 2005 - Greenprints on the Road
Highlights: Driving down the cost of LEED, succeeding with LEED through effective project delivery, daylighting design and lighting controls for LEED buildings
Greenprints 2004
Keynote Speaker: Harry Frampton, Urban Land Institute national chairman
Visionary Speaker: Paul Dolan, Fetzer Wineries founder and chief operating officer
Highlights: “Table Talk Lunch," alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 2003
Keynote Speakers: Katherine Ellison, Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Interface, Inc.
Visionary Speaker: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute/Earth Policy Institute
Highlights: Introduction to LEED® track (sponsored by USGBC), alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 2002
Keynote Speaker: Mark Ginsberg, U.S. Department of Energy
Visionary Speaker: Ray Suarez, renowned journalist
Highlights: Dedicated LEED sessions, alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 2001
Keynote Speakers: Elizabeth Dowdeswell, UN Environment Programme director; Dr. David Orr, Oberlin College; Dr. Jack Jackson, American Institute of Architects
Visionary Speaker: William McDonough, renowned environmental visionary and architect
Highlights: Master Speaker Series introduced with authors Sarah Susanka (The Not So Big House) and Jane Holtz-Kay (Asphalt Nation), alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 2000
Keynote Speakers: John Todd, Ocean Arks International; Neal Peirce, The CitiStates Group
Visionary Speaker: Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute founder and co-chief operating officer
Highlights: Ray Anderson (Confessions of a Radical Industrialist), alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 1999
Keynote Speaker: Jay Benforado, EPA Office of Reinvention
Visionary Speaker: Paul Hawken, Smith and Hawken co-founder and noted author (The Ecology of Commerce; Blessed Unrest)
Highlights: USGBC LEED program announcement, alternative fuel vehicle show
Greenprints 1998
Keynote Speakers: Steve Loken, Loken Builders; Peter Yost, Building Science Corporation, Senior Research Associate