Christopher Wedding

Last Thursday, I attended Green Building: The Next Generation.  This was a lecture by Christopher Wedding who is Manager of R&D and Sustainability for Cherokee Investment Partners (CIP) and Cherokee Gives back.  He is also the Founder of IronOak Innovations, which specializes in advisory services, new product development, and lecturing.  IronOak supports business executives, investors, architecture, and entrepreneurs, and other organizations that think about the big picture and have innovative product and services development, along with much more.  To fully understand how impressive Wedding is you need to understand everything that he has already accomplished.  He earned his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill in Environmental Management and Policy, his MS also at UNC Chapel Hill in Environmental Management and Policy, is a LEED Accredited Professional by the US Green Building Council, and is an Ambassador of the International Living Building Institute.  While his lecture included many companies that I had never heard of and parts were specifically directed to the professionals that also attended the lecture, I was still overwhelmed by the amazing work he has done and how he helps the environment.  His slides included many interesting facts about environmental building and architecture.  He spoke about how he never thought his past career choices would have led him to what he is doing today and that it is a lot of hard work. Wedding was very inspiring and I would love to learn more about what he is doing and how to effectively influence the Green Building movement.