The three winners of the green inventor awards have been divulged. April 23rd had the announcement by Mayor David Miller, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and CityNews Meteorologist Michael Kuss of the top green innovators, at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. Each of winners were handed the prestigious Green Toronto Award and they will share a $50,000 prize.
Maintaining the environment is the main ideas of these young scientists, not the prize money. Three winners may have been revealed but the ideas for green solutions was at a very high standard. The brief for these scientists was to find real time, affordable solutions, therefore you may see these inventions readily available to buy soon.
The three prize winners are listed below:
* Olivier Trescases, PhD and Chris Lea, with Green Gym: A fitness centre built to take energy from exercise equipment; and send it to the grid.
* Sarah Lazarovic and her concept GreenHouseTO; For those Toronto individuals 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 application for the iPhone and Facebook. Planting a tree, decreasing waste or any other environmental improvements you make will be exchanged for points when working this 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 All finalists received $5,000 prize to share with a registered charity of their choosing.
Post published by Julie Kinnear, Toronto Royal LePage
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