Pamela Lippe

Lippe is an innovative professional with 15 years as a green building consultant and over 35 years in the environmental and communication fields. She was the consultant to The Durst Organization on the first “green” skyscraper built in the US and continues to work on most Durst projects including the new 2.2 million sf Bank of America Tower at 1 Bryant Park, which recently achieved LEED Platinum. For twenty one years, Lippe has served as executive director of Earth Day New York (EDNY), a 501(c) 3 non-profit educational organization and currently serves as its President. Earth Day New York annually organizes the largest Earth Day events in the country beginning in 1990 with the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in NYC that engaged about two million people. Since 1996, EDNY has targeted a number of its educational campaigns to the real estate community including seven well-received Lessons Learned publications distributed broadly throughout the industry. Lippe was one of the co-founders of the national and international Earth Day Network and regularly launches Earth Day programs that reach well beyond New York. The latest is Earth Day Connect, a program designed to engage employees around sustainability within their company and community.