Credentials

Michael Murr has an ascribed background in the green industry and landscape architecture, with hands on experience in design, development, and implementation.

For 13 years Michael was a Manager of Facilities and Operations at Compaq Computer Corporation's award-winning natural environment headquarters on a 300-acre pine forest campus. As a leader in creating and sustaining landscapes that work with indigenous environments, Michael also established and managed Compaq's wide-spectrum recycling program—recognized as of one of the premier programs in corporate America.

He holds a Landscape Architecture degree from Texas Tech University with a minor in Horticultural Sciences, and is a respected speaker and regional writer on a wide variety of environmental subjects.

Michael serves as Director for a Harris County Municipal Utility District, Board member of Goodwill of Houston's Business Advisory Committee, Director of Cypress Creek Flood Control Coalition, past Board member of the Greenspoint Chamber of Commerce, Graduate of Leadership North Houston, past President and Chairman of the Board of the Houston Corporate Recycling Council and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture.

Some of the awards Michael Murr has been responsible for or actively participated in include:

Environmental Vision Award
Texas Corporate Recycling Council

Associated Landscape Contractors of America Award

EPA WasteWi$e Award

Energy Star PC Partner of the Year
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

National Awards Council for Environmental Sustainability
Renew America

World Environment Center (WEC) Gold Medal For Intl Corp Environment Achievement

Houston Corporate Recycling Council Award for Environmental Excellence

Proud Partner Award
Keep Houston Beautiful

Green Lights EPA "Corporate Partner of the Year"

Conservation Leadership Award
Nature Conservancy of Texas

Texas Wildscape Wildlife Habitat Program



Michael Murr		Murr Incorporated is just the natural extension of a passion for providing solutions to the ongoing global issue of declining green resources. When older and more traditional ways aren't working, new ideas could provide more desirable results.

Will Rogers once said, "The good Lord ain't makin' no more land, but he sure keeps on makin' more people." I now devote my career to understanding the complex interactions between people and land, to help to make the world what it can be in cooperation with nature.