Steven W. Peck
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Steven Peck is founder and president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a non-profit industry association promoting the planning, designing and building of green roof
, green walls and other architecture
projects. Green Roofs was established in 1999.
Peck holds an honors B.A. from McGill University
in Political Science and Economics. He was born in Canada. He spent the past 15 years conducting public policy research in the fields of technology innovation and diffusion, and urban sustainability. In 1999 he co-authored a federal government report on barriers to green roof technology diffusion called “Green Backs for Green Roofs.”
Peck is an "Editor-at-Large" and publisher of the Green Roof Infrastructure Monitor magazine http://www.greenroofs.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=28, a semi-annual publication that his organization puts out. It profiles green roof, living wall, urban agriculture developments and research in North America and Europe and has implemented several green roofs in Toronto, Canada. He is the founder of the Annual International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards and Trade Show.
Green roof
A green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems...
, green walls and other architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
projects. Green Roofs was established in 1999.
Peck holds an honors B.A. from McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
in Political Science and Economics. He was born in Canada. He spent the past 15 years conducting public policy research in the fields of technology innovation and diffusion, and urban sustainability. In 1999 he co-authored a federal government report on barriers to green roof technology diffusion called “Green Backs for Green Roofs.”
Peck is an "Editor-at-Large" and publisher of the Green Roof Infrastructure Monitor magazine http://www.greenroofs.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=28, a semi-annual publication that his organization puts out. It profiles green roof, living wall, urban agriculture developments and research in North America and Europe and has implemented several green roofs in Toronto, Canada. He is the founder of the Annual International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards and Trade Show.