Robert Hertzberg - Robert Hertzberg is the Chairman and Co-founder of G24 Innovations and the Former Speaker of the California State Assembly.
Mark Levine - Dr. Levine is Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, a research and analysis division at LBNL with over 300 staff members working in the following areas: building energy research; U.S. and international energy policy studies; environmentally friendly energy technology R&D; and indoor and urban/regional air quality and combustion research.
In 1988, he initiated the LBNL China Energy Group, and is a co-founder of the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center (BECon). He has been involved in China and global energy demand studies, and has expertise in energy modeling and energy-efficiency policy analysis.
Ye Qing - Ye Qing is the Dean of the Shenzhen Institute of Building Research.
Qingpeng Wei - Qingpeng Wei is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Building Energy Research Center (BERC) at Tsinghua University.
Laura Yoshii - Laura Yoshii is the Acting Regional Administrator of the EPA for Region 9.
The green building revolution has begun, but it has far to go. In the US, the floor space of LEED-certified buildings totals 12.5 million square meters, with much more in the pipeline. California leads the way, with far more green buildings than any other state. In China, green buildings have gone from zero in 2000 to 4 million square meters today, again with much more in the offing.
Leading green design specialists discuss global centers for green building policy at Scaling Up: From Green Buildings to Green Cities in the US and China.
The US and China are rapidly becoming the global centers for green design promotion, development, and investment, and many other Asian countries are beginning to follow suit.