A life worth living is the life that make a little bit of difference and you (David) turned on a lot of bright bulbs, my friend, including mine. Keep it up.

—Donald Simon
President of Build it Green & Partner at Wendel Rosen Law Firm

What gives me the most hope is people’s capacity to make the right decisions with the right information in front of them.  The journey you’re doing here is great.  I continue to be inspired.

—Che Wall

David is a person who's simply wired differently than most others. His sense of right and wrong is like forged steel. His understanding of a holistic approach to problem solving, creating and human wellness is something special. And his compassion for his fellow humans and those generations yet conceived is a life force about which I stand transfixed in some childlike combination of reverence and awe.

—Rick Fedrizzi

"Thank you so much for doing the closing keynote for this year's Chapter Forum [at Greenbuild Philadelphia]. You physically and mentally brought the energy level up, and inspired our community like only you can do."

—Margo Street
LEED Green Associate Manager, Community Advancement, U.S. Green Building Council

"I enjoyed your presentation. Your honesty about the setbacks and your determination to proceed were both very inspiring."

—Kurt Lavenson
Owner & Principal, Lavenson Design

"David Gottfried gave one of the most moving and inspirational talks to the Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design in San Francisco and he was a featured speaker with Dan Pink not so very long ago in Toronto. I think you will enjoy him: good sense of humor, relaxed, articulate, passionate, youthful. He has a fresh message."

—James P. Cramer
Chairman & Principal, The Greenway Group

"Martha Graham, the great dancer and choreographer, once described the creative process as "blessed unrest." The same could be said for David Gottfried. Anyone who knows David can feel the energy. It is a toe-tapping, eye-flashing kinetic that takes on any challenge. What he took on was the building industry and its relationship to living systems. He founded and helped build the most important green trade organization in the world. There is virtually no second place. No organization has had a bigger impact on the environment than this one..."

—Paul Hawken
Author, Ecology of Commerce

"Our future depends on sustainability...David Gottfried's pioneering work is proof that we can do it..."

—President Bill Clinton