Neil Dipaola

Neil Dipaola is a nationally recognized thought leader in California coastal land use policy and sustainable development; and he is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science; and Santa Barbara City College. His development projects have received numerous industry awards for their attention to sustainability and use of contemporary design and architecture and have been featured in over 100 periodicals including such publications as Dwell, Forbes, Sunset Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal; Dipaola was recently awarded California’s highest honor – The Governor’s Economic and Environmental Leadership Award by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Environmental Protection Agency – for his pioneering work to develop net-zero energy buildings in California.