Our Story

In 2009 when the building market crashed, Summer saw a need to make Green Buildings affordable and accessible to all. After working for a large international architecture firm, she then starting her own consulting firm, ecoREAL Solutions, she started working with contractors who were struggling to meet the new LEED mandates.

Summer recognized the gap between the Owner/Architect's specs and the boots on the ground. Working on a Federal Jobsite living with the subs, she saw the pain points in LEED and other mandated Green Building Certifications that led her to create a simple solution to make it easy.

Our Mission

We are dedicated to providing software that gives our customers the power to control their destiny as they navigate through the compliance jungle. We have distilled years of sustainable design and development consulting insight to develop a cloud-based software that provides an intuitive approach to LEED compliance, WELL protocols, and sustainable business practices.

We want to change the game by leveling the playing field enabling small, minority, and individuals to have access to sustainable design and development practices.

"I appreciate Summer’s knowledge of construction and architecture and how she can see almost every perspective, including the small business owner."

Mel Jones, Director of Inclusion

Hoffman Construction

Our Team

Summer Fowler

Founder and CEO

WELL Faculty, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C, OAME Board of Directors Advisory Board (Past Chair)

Summer leads Green Canary with a clear mission: Make healthy, sustainable building practical and affordable for every project team. She has spent her career integrating sustainability, social equity, and real-world construction constraints so that high-performance buildings stop feeling complicated and start feeling achievable. Her work has influenced cities, school districts, nonprofits, and private developers across the country.

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Pamela Gorder

Chief Revenue Officer

Pamela leads growth and partnerships for Canary, bringing sustainable building tools to the teams and agencies that need them most.

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James Hickman

Chief Technology Architect

James designs and builds the core Canary platform, turning complex sustainability workflows into fast, intuitive software.

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Brent Ward

Director of Existing Buildings

Brent supports clients in improving performance across existing buildings through practical, energy-focused sustainability strategies.

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Joshua Pasos

Product Director

Josh guides Canary’s product development, translating user needs into features that make sustainable materials and certification work easier.

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Advisory Board

Roger McFadden. Science/Technical

President and Chief Science Officer at McFadden & Assoc.

VP and Senior Scientist for Staples

Director Emeritus of Clean Production Action

Lori Brown. Technology Sales

Executive Director, Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)

President: Brown Unmanned Aerial Solutions

Vice President, International Sales and Global Marketing-MTI

Director, Worldwide Channel Sales and Sales Operations-Tektronix

Christopher Bloom. Software Development

Principal Front-end Engineer at Knapsack

Director of Engineering at Phase 2

"The Green Canary platform provides a useful and customizable organization to track the various LEED v4 metrics on a project. The ability to track and organize this information is critical to successfully attaining construction credits in LEED v4."

Race Clark, PM

Hoffman Construction

Multnomah County Central Courthouse

The Companies We Support

We have a wide variety of customers who rely on Green Canary for their compliance software. We are proud to have contributed to the successful completion of their projects.

Green Canary changes the game by leveling the playing field enabling small, minority, and individuals with the power to comply with standards without drowning in a complex sea of paperwork and process.