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Bill Browning

Managing Partner at Terrapin Bright Green LLC

Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. His expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military, and foreign governments. In 1991, Browning founded Rocky Mountain Institute’s Green Development Services, which was awarded the 1999 President’s Council for Sustainable Development/Renew America Prize. In 2006, he became a co-founding principal of Terrapin Bright Green LLC, which crafts environmental strategies for corporations, government agencies and large-scale developments.

Browning’s clients range from Google, Salesforce, Bank of America and interface in the commercial sector, to Starwood, Ritz-Carlton and Six Senses in the hospitality sector, and from New Songdo City, the White House, National Geographic Society and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village in the public and non-profit sphere.

Bill is coauthor of Nature Inside, A Biophilic Design Guide (RIBA, 2020), “14 Patterns of Biophilic Design” (Terrapin, 2014), and the EDRA award winning publication “The Economics of Biophilia”
(Terrapin, 2012). Earlier in his career, Bill coauthored Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate, Green Developments, A Primer on Sustainable Building, and Greening the Building and the Bottom Line.

Browning has been named one of five people “Making a Difference” by Buildings magazine, and an Honorary member of the AIA. He was a founding member of US Green Building Council’s Board of Directors and has served on the DoD Defense Science Board Energy Task Force.

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