The three stars of the green inventor awards have been divulged. Mayor David Miller, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and CityNews Meteorologist Michael Kuss reported the top green innovators on April 23 during the Green Living Show at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. The prize of $50,000 was shared out between the award winners and they each were given the coveted Green Toronto Award.
Maintaining the environment is the main ideas of these young scientists, not the prize money. All the finalists gave exciting green solutions and improvements. Since the idea was to present real solutions, most of the projects were affordable and easily applicable, so one day you may see them applied also in your neighbourhood, or in your own home.
The prize winners are:
* Olivier Trescases, PhD and Chris Lea, with Green Gym: A gymnasium constructed to use energy from exercise equipment; and send it to the grid.
* Sarah Lazarovic and her concept GreenHouseTO; For those Toronto people that are interested in Toronto buildings comes a handy web and mobile renovation application.
* Robert Kori Golding, for his concept My Green City, a cross-platform game for the iPhone and Facebook. Assemble a virtual town on these applications and claim reward points to use on your town by supporting the environment.
Greener comes first!
The day didn’t finish there, there was also 9 other Green Toronto Awards: Community Projects Award, Energy Conservation Award, Environmental Awareness Award, to name just some of them There was prize money of $5,000 to each of the finalists which they shared with a charity of their choosing.
Article prepared by Julie Kinnear, Toronto Royal LePage
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