At the inaugural
Green Innovation Awards presented by the Toronto Community Foundation on April 23, three winners received chunks of the $50,000 prize pool as start-up money for their proposed environmentally innovative business ideas.
The biggest cheque was for $25,000 to Robert Kori Golding, who proposed a Facebook and iPhone game application that would see people build Green Cities in the game, and earn carbon credits tradeable in the game environment by completing real-world missions such as attending farmer's markets or changing light bulbs.
Golding says that the project is in its infancy, but he plans to work with a team of advisors to use the prize money to raise further capital to turn the game idea into a reality.
$10,000 went to Olivier Trescases for his Green Gym idea that would harvest energy from workout equipment to feed the electrical grid. And former Torontoist editor Sarah Lazarovic picked up $15,000 in support of her GreenHouseTO idea to build a website and mobile application that would give homeowners, builders and renovators access to information about green building.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Sources: Robert Kori Golding, My Green Toronto; Toronto Community Foundation
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