TEDxThunderBay2012.3.20---Geoff Cape :城市與大自然

TEDxThunderBay2012.3.20---Geoff Cape :城市與大自然

TEDxThunderBay - Geoff Cape - Imagine your City with Nature
Geoff is a leader in the area of green cities. Geoff is an executive, and public speaker on urban issues, space planning and themes related to innovation and city building. As the founder of Evergreen Geoff has been its CEO since inception in 1990. Under Geoff's leadership, Evergreen, has grown to include over 100 staff and offices in Toronto, and Vancouver. Evergreen is focused on the idea of green cities and the more specific agenda of integrating nature in urban design. Evergreen has led is the redevelopment of the historic Evergreen Brick Works property as an international centre for green cities with 16 buildings and 41 acres in the heart of the city. The project has won several international awards for design and programming is helping other imagine possibilities for brownfield sites around the world. Over the past 20 years Evergreen has enabled others with educational resources, training sessions, design support and grants to over 2,100 schools and community projects. Evergreen has raised over $100 million to support the greening of cities, including $55 million to establish Evergreen Brick Works, leveraging sponsorship dollars with foundation, government and corporate grants, individual donations with earned revenues. Geoff attended Trinity College School, Queen's University (Bachelor of Arts) and McGill University (Masters of Management). Geoff is a founding member of the World Entrepreneurship Forum , and a participant at the World Economic Forum, Davos, founding Chair of the Sustainability Institute, and the Creative Cities Leadership Group. Geoff has been recognized as one of Canada's "Top 40 under 40", an "Ashoka Fellow", winner of the Peter F. Drucker Award, and the Governor General's "Golden Jubilee Medal" for significant contributions to the building of a fair and just Canadian society. In 2007 Geoff was awarded "Canadian Social Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Schwab Foundation, Geneva Switzerland. In 2010 Geoff Cape was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings Canada. Geoff lives (and cycles daily) in Toronto with his wife Valerie Laflamme and their three young sons, Thomas, Benjamin and Sebastien.



TEDxThunderBay - 傑夫·開普敦 - 想像一下，你的城市與大自然
傑夫是一個綠色城市領域的領導者。傑夫是一個行政，公眾演講者和城市問題，空間規劃和相關的創新和城市建設的主題。至於長榮傑夫的創始人一直是它的CEO，自1990年成立以來。傑夫的領導下，長榮，已發展到包括超過100名工作人員和辦事​​處在多倫多和溫哥華。長榮專注於綠色城市理念和城市設計的性質結合的更具體的議程。說明長榮領導的歷史長榮磚重建工程16幢和41畝，在城市中心的綠色城市作為國際金融中心的財產。該項目已多次獲得國際大獎的設計和編程幫助棕地為世界各地的其他想像的可能性。在過去的20年，長榮已啟用其他教育資源，培訓課程，設計支持和贈款超過2,100名的學校和社區項目。長榮已籌得超過100萬美元，以支持城市綠化，包括$ 55萬建立長榮磚工程，利用贊助美元的基礎上，政府和企業資助，個人捐款賺取的收入。傑夫參加三一學院的學校，皇后大學（文學士）和麥吉爾大學（管理碩士）。傑夫是一個世界企業家論壇的創始成員，並在達沃斯世界經濟論壇，可持續發展研究所的創始主席，創意城市領導小組的參與者。傑夫已經被確認為加拿大的“熱門40 40歲以下，1：”阿育王院士“，”彼得樓德魯克獎獲得者，和總督的“黃金週年紀念獎章”公平，公正的建設做出了重要貢獻加拿大社會。 2007年，傑夫·施瓦布基金會，瑞士日內瓦被授予“加拿大年度社會企業家”。開普敦傑夫在2010年被授予終身成就獎從加拿大可持續發展的建築物。傑夫生活在多倫多與他的妻子瓦萊麗Laflamme編寫和他們的三個年幼的兒子，托馬斯，本傑明和塞巴斯蒂安（和循環日報）。