Best Green Innovators In the GTA

The competition for the green innovation award has reached its results and announces three winners. April 23rd saw the declaration by Mayor David Miller, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and CityNews Meteorologist Michael Kuss of the finest green innovators, at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. The Green Toronto Award was handed to each of the innovators along with a share of the $50,000 prize winnings.

The young scientists aim to maintain the environment, the prize money is just a bonus. There were lots of very interesting solutions and improvements suggested by all the finalists. The ideas were not about fanciful solutions that would never see light outside of a research lab, but real solutions that you may someday see in common use.

Below are the top three winners:

• Olivier Trescases, PhD and Chris Lea, with Green Gym: An exercise gym that is specially built to harvest energy and send it to the grid.
• Sarah Lazarovic and her idea GreenHouseTO; For those Toronto people that are interested in Toronto buildings comes a well thought out web and mobile renovation application.
• Robert Kori Golding, for his idea My Green City: A Facebook and iPhone cross-platform application. Planting a tree, cutting down waste or any other environmental improvements you make will be exchanged for points when using this game/application

Green is always the way to go!

The day didn't come to a halt there, there was a further 9 other Green Toronto Awards: Community Projects Award, Energy Conservation Award, Environmental Awareness Award, to name just a few There was reward money of $5,000 to each of the finalists which they shared with a charity of their own choosing.

Post delivered by Julie Kinnear, Royal LePage Toronto