Steering Committee
Since 2009, he has been working with IDM South Tyrol (Italy) as an innovation manager in the Ecosystem Construction. From 2010 to 2011, he worked with the Energy and Environment Cluster of Trentino as manager of the business unit for sustainable products. From 2015 to 2016, he was the co-owner of a startup focused on LEED consulting.
In 2015, he co-founded the Living Future Italy Collaborative.
Since 2017, he’s working with Eurac Research as Chair and Project Manager of the COST Action 16114 RESTORE (REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy). The RESTORE COST Action (2017-2021) will affect a paradigm shift towards restorative sustainability for new and existing buildings and space design across Europe, through the collaboration of 160+ researchers from 40 European countries.
Since 2018 he is European Executive Director for the International Living Future Institute and now President at Living Future Europe. The Institute’s mission will hasten the change and provide needed direction towards a regenerative design transition in Europe. It is actively pursuing European market alignment and adaptations of the Living Building Challenge (LBC).
Building on his 45 years UK and overseas experience in project management, business improvement and sustainability he now supports many leading organisations and practices.
Martin explores our sustainable future, sharing powerful messages and inspiring stories, highlighting the tough choices we face and the opportunities we have to create a better tomorrow.
From understanding climate change, reconnecting with nature, rethinking carbon management and the materials we use in our buildings, he acknowledges we can all imagine better and provokes improvement.
Our built environment is facing an avalanche of disruptive change; methods of design and construction; digital technical and financial; social and climate imperatives; shifts in investment and a new understanding of how we value buildings. Some of these disruptions are from within our sector, far many more are external. Martin alerts us to the next and emerging issues that organisations must address now for a sustainable and future built environment sector.
Author of FutuREstorative, Working Towards a New Sustainability, RIBA 2016. Co-Founder and Vice Chair of RESTORE (Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy), a 4 Year EU Cost Action research network. Founder of the Living Building Challenge UK Collaborative and advisor to the Cuerden Valley Park Visitor Center, the first LBC registered project in UK. Co-Founder of online construction carbon tool, ConstructCO2
He is an avid writer, and his research and commentary have been featured in news outlets such as China Dialogue, CGTN TV, Engineering News Record, Building Green, Trim Tab, Sustainable Brands, and GreenBiz.
Before joining My Green Lab, James was the Vice President of Strategic Growth for the International Living Future Institute, where he led international growth strategy and became a founding board member of Living Future Institute Europe. During his time at ILFI, James created several leading-edge sustainability programs, including Declare, an innovative ingredient transparency label for non-toxic building products, Living Product Challenge, the world’s most advanced sustainability standard for building products, Just, a social equity label for organizations, and Zero Carbon Building Certification.
James has won numerous scholarships and awards for his research and work; notably, he received a 2012 Fulbright Fellowship to research on green building rating systems in China, was selected as a Greenbiz 30 under 30 Sustainable Business Leader in 2016, and a Net Zero Energy Trailblazer in 2019.
Lindsay is a climate entrepreneur, experienced in launching and growing innovative businesses. She interned at the Southface Institute in Atlanta before entering Oberlin College to earn a BA in Environmental Studies. She was one of the first 40 staff members at the U.S. Green Building Council, working to develop consensus about what the LEED rating system would become. She then earned an MS from the University of California at Berkeley in Architecture, with a focus on Building Science, and spent five years as a building science researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for the Built Environment.
Lindsay applied her experience around the study of heat, light, and human interactions in buildings to a role with Google’s Green Team, and later co-founded a smart buildings start-up called Comfy, which grew over five years to 75 employees and a global portfolio of clients. She was the first Global Head of Sustainability and Impact at WeWork, where she built the corporate sustainability team and programs from scratch. Lindsay is a Senior Fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute, and a lecturer at UC Berkeley. She serves on several non-profit boards, and is an advisor and board member for numerous climate tech startups.
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As an architect, since 2008, she had the opportunity to explore, in an international setting [Bucharest / New York / Paris / Brussels], large-scale mixed-use projects aiming for LEED, HQE or Living Building Challenge labels. In 2020, she co-founded ALA Studio in Bucharest, an Architecture office focused on the integrative restoration of historical monuments.
In 2021, she joined LFE as vice-chair for the Technical Advisory Group and engaged in NEB related activities and projects.
From 2004 to 2019 I have owned my wholesale and retail company in Fashion - (VG Fashion & Fashionality bvba) and successfully expanded the company to 8 retail locations all around Belgium.
In 2019, I decided, together with my husband, to follow our dreams: we sold our companies and moved to Spain-Valencia with our 3 kids and our dog. In March 2020, I founded my interior design company Habitarmonia (Habitat + Harmony).
I advocate the use of ‘biophilic design’ principles to stimulate the adoption of happier, healthier places to live & more productive places to work.
Alice holds a first class degree in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester. She was awarded a scholarship to study on the Masters of Urban Studies programme in Brussels. Since returning to studying in September 2021, she has remained proactive and enthusiastic to gain more experience and plant her roots in Brussels.
Advisory Board
She has in-depth knowledge of high environmental quality standards, in particular HQE, BREEAM, LEED, WELL, etc., and of project management, combined with 14 years of experience in real estate and facilities management consulting. She is currently leading several environmental consulting and certification projects for new or existing buildings.
She is an HQE International, BREEAM Assessor, LEED Accredited Professional, WELL AP referent and auditor for the BREEAM In Use and HQE Exploitation building standards. She is the company's representative on the technical committees for the deployment of foreign benchmarks in France (BREEAM and LEED).
She provides training and communication on the theme of high environmental quality.
Her personal interests include the social aspects of energy and in this context, she is the co-author of four books on energy poverty alleviation. In 2017 she received the Energy Professional Development Award - Western Europe Region from the Association of Energy Engineers in the USA for her achievements regarding the development of the energy engineering and management profession in Western Europe. She serves as the Vice-Chair of the Renovate Europe Campaign for the years 2022 and 2023 and she is BoD Member of the Hellenic Dutch Association of Trade and Business.
Advisory Board UniCredit Nord-Est since 2018
Board Member Spreentech (start-up accelerator) – Polo Edilizia 4.0 Rovereto since 2022
Always looking at what´s beyond, he became involved with the Living Building Challenge certification, obtained Living Future Accreditation and co-founded the Spain Living Future Collaborative in 2016. The renovation of his house in the north of Spain became the first building to be LBC certified in Europe. In 2019, he graduated as a Regenerative Practitioner with the Regenesis Group and continued his learning journey towards regenerative leadership. In 2023 he co-founded “A Regenerative Place”, a non-profit that supports those active in the built environment in their individual and collective journeys of transformation towards a world that gives us hope of a viable future in which all life can thrive.
In this role, she is responsible for the coordination and development of ESG topics within the Real I.S.Group at corporate and product level. Her focus topics are EU Taxonomy, SDFR, Decarbonisation andCRREM alignment as well as sustainability reporting.
She has a degree in architecture with specialization in architecture for sustainability and is a DGNBauditor and expert for sustainable building. Peretti started her career in various architectural offices untilshe joined the international engineering company "Werner Sobek" in 2008 as a project manager andsustainability consultant. There, Peretti was team manager for sustainability, building physics andcertification, focusing on sustainability topics in the construction sector, such as decarbonization, energyefficiency, sustainable building materials and circular economy as well as building certifications.
His professional trajectory starts with a position as design coordinator at the Domus Academy Research Centre, Milanand continues in Miami and Barcelona as founder of two design studios.
He contributed to establish design for policy at the European Commission's EU Policy Lab and had a key role in theearly development of the New European Bauhaus and of its community. With Dave Snowden, he co-wrote "Managingcomplexity (and chaos) in times of crisis".
Alessandro is currently bringing regenerative practices to policy-making, place-making and entrepreneurship at livepods.eu
