[2] In April 1993, Gottfried along with Michael Italiano, an environmental lawyer, and Rick Fedrizzi, head of environmental marketing at Carrier at the time, founded the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), in order to promote sustainable practices in the building and construction industry.
In 2002, the WorldGBC was officially formed with the countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and US.
[11] Gottfried currently serves as the chief commercial officer for Blue Planet Systems, which creates Synthetic Limestone aggregate with a potential to permanently store gigatons of CO2 in carbon negative concrete.
[12] He founded WorldBuild Technologies Inc, a San Francisco sustainable development consultant firm,[1] with clients such as Yahoo, Starbucks, DreamWorks SKG, Stanford University, Williams-Sonoma, Genentech, the State of California and San Diego Gas & Electric,[13] and was previously the CEO of Reset360, Regenerative Ventures and its RegenNetwork.
[18] He was previously married to Dr. Sara Gottfried, a scientist, researcher, MD, and author[19][20] and is father to two daughters.