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Robert "Rob" Watson, is a market transformation expert, international leader in the green building movement and CEO and Chief Scientist of The ECON Group. He founded the LEED Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993 and was its Founding Chairman until 2006. After helping to pioneer the green building concept as the "Father of LEED", Watson founded the EcoTech International Group (ETI) to meet the fast-growing demand for green building technologies and services in China, Russia, India and the United States. Since 2008, Watson has also been the Executive Editor of GreenerBuildings.com where he blogs about the state of green building. His work on green buildings in China and green technology in general has been featured in numerous publications, including ''Fortune Magazine'' and ''The Economist''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.economist.com/node/9517615 )〕 and has been referenced on multiple occasions by ''New York Times'' columnist, Thomas Friedman. In Thomas Friedman's 2008 book, ''Hot, Flat, and Crowded'', Watson is described as "one of the best environmental minds in America." Former Senior Scientist and Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's International Energy and Green Building programs, Watson has over 25 years of experience on five continents improving the environmental performance of buildings, utilities and transportation through energy and building policy and program development, integrated design solutions, and clean building technologies. Watson was the only foreigner to have been honored by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China with its first ''Green Innovation Award'' in Beijing in 2005. In 2002, he was named as the first recipient of the U.S. Green Building Council's ''Leadership Award For Lifetime Achievement'' for his work with the organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.edcmag.com/articles/fisk-honored-with-leadership-award-by-the-usgbc-for-green-commitment )〕 ==Life and work== Rob started out his career in Golden Bc with an education at the renowned college of the rockies. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth College studying Energy and Environmental Policy, Rob spent several months living in a tent at an altitude of 8,000 feet helping Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins build Rocky Mountain Institute. As a Senior Scientist and Director of the International Energy and Green Building programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1985 to 2006, Watson was active in international sustainable building, utility and transportation issues in a dozen countries including China, the United States and Russia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06sum/field.asp?r=n )〕 Since 1997, Watson has worked with the Ministry of Construction of China to develop green building standards and energy codes for commercial and residential buildings. He also was the principal coordinator for ACCORD21, a key green building demonstration project in Beijing for the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This building was the first to receive LEED Certification in China at the Gold Level. In other international work, Watson helped to develop improved national residential building codes in Russia, as well as in Moscow, and managed a joint U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Agency for International Development project to promote Integrated Resource Planning in the utility sector for the North Caucasus region of Russia. He has also worked on sustainable energy and green development issues in buildings, electric utilities and transportation in Belarus, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Ukraine. On behalf of NRDC, Watson advocated for sustainable energy policies and programs before several international financial institutions, including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as several U.S. government agencies (USAID, Department of Energy, United States Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency, National Security Council, Office of Environmental Policy), to promote sustainable energy policies and programs in the developing world. Watson played an important role in developing the "Partnership for Sustainable Energy Use" for the hemisphere-wide Summit of the Americas in 1996. Watson created the first documented, quantifiable “Green Office” in the U.S. for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s NYC headquarters in 1987. Watson took primary responsibility for developing the green features of NRDC’s showcase green offices in Washington, DC and the LEED Platinum Level Robert Redford Building in Los Angeles — one of the highest recipients of LEED points in the world. He also consulted on the San Francisco office, which achieved LEED Gold Level Certification. Watson was a member of the Executive Committee for the President’s Council on Sustainable Development 1999 National Town Meeting and was the Operations Group Leader for the 1993 Greening of the White House initiative spearheaded by President Bill Clinton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert K. Watson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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