About Us
Common Council President James Pitts created Buffalo's Green Gold Development Corporation in 1998 as a non-profit organization.

Green Gold is a collaborative visionary project to recast the image and the reality of the local economy. Our vision is based on the precept that the Earth cannot sustain current lifestyles and overall consumption and production patterns. As long as this is the case, there will be environmental problems in need of sustainable solutions. Businesses that offer solutions to those problems will prosper and provide an abundance of jobs, if marketed properly.

These "green businesses," and the people they employ, will be doing important work that will point the way to a sustainable future.

At our meetings, we successfully involve and network local business leaders, environmental organizations, development agencies, and public officials.

Our goal is to establish the Buffalo area as a recognized leader in solving environmental problems worldwide. In taking on this project, we aim to make Western New York the "Silicon Valley of Green Business."

more information: The Green Gold Strategy