Awards go to the Best Green Innovators in the Greater Toronto area

The competition for the green innovation award has reached its results and reports three stars. April 23rd gave the release 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. The Green Toronto Award was given to each of the prize winners along with a share of the $50,000 prize money.

Still, it was not the accolade to drive the young scientist and innovators, but the purpose to help our environment. All the finalists offered exciting green solutions and improvements. The brief for these scientists was to find real, affordable solutions, therefore you may see these inventions readily available to buy soon.

The three award winners are listed next:

* Olivier Trescases, PhD and Chris Lea, with Green Gym: An exercise gym that is specifically built to use energy and send it to the grid.

* Sarah Lazarovic and her idea GreenHouseTO; Not just for architects but for ordinary people comes a web and mobile renovation application that is for Toronto buildings.

* Robert Kori Golding, for his idea My Green City: For those that like gaming on the iPhone or Facebook You get points for carrying out real-life green tasks (planting a tree, reducing waste) and spend them on your virtual town.

So the champion is GREEN!

The day didn’t come to a halt there, there was another 9 other Green Toronto Awards: Community Projects Award, Energy Conservation Award, Environmental Awareness Award, to name just a couple Charities also won, as all finalists took away a prize of $5,000 each to share with a charity of their choice.

Post written by Julie Kinnear, Toronto Royal LePage