Each year at Living Future, CEO Lindsay Baker shares insight about the movement building that is under way as the built environment community moves toward regenerative practices and people and communities experience the benefits.
This year's message was especially timely and thoughtful. But at Living Future 26 in Seattle last month, Lindsay's address was interrupted by a fire alarm. It was a false alarm, but it persisted, so everyone in the room witnessed Lindsay's humor and grace as she, too, persisted. (That aggressive alarm was such an on-the-nose metaphor for our times that it seemed surreal!)
We decided a redux was in order. Lindsay re-recorded the talk for us without the interruption.
Lindsay talks about the signals in the world, what people in power do when they feel threatened, and what we can do right now to stay together, stay focused, and scale our progress. She says:
"Sometimes the backlash comes because the action is actually working the way it was intended to, and the small minority of powerful folks who stand to actually lose from fair systems of accountability find ways to start fighting. So they take a lot of time and energy and money to find arguments to enable the pushback.
But we know, in this room, that a central goal of the green building community is actually to save people money, to make homes more affordable, and to create good jobs."
Listen at https://www.designthefuturepodcast.com/episodes/lindsay-baker-lf26 or on your favorite podcast platform.
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Kira Gould Hon. AIA
Kira Gould CONNECT
Mission Hills KS
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