For the latest episode of our podcast, Lindsay Baker and I talked with the inspiring Shannon Goodman about building reuse and building community. She is the Executive Director of the Lifecycle Building Center in Atlanta, which has redirected nearly 13 million pounds of usable materials away from landfills and generated more than $6 million in community savings. Shannon also serves as Board President for the nonprofit Build Reuse, representing reuse-focused organizations across the U.S.
We talked to her about running a nonprofit and about the changes afoot in the AEC field. "We are in the midst of a massive mind shift," she says. "It's only going to work if people actually see that there is value. We have to stop thinking about these materials as waste. They are resources."
Shannon's vision for the reuse work is that "the entire process of what we do gets really sexy for people," she says. "I look forward to a time when people are compelled by the stories they are hearing of what has been saved and reused. They will think, 'I want a piece of that for my work.' That is only going to happen if we make it really easy to tell those stories."
Listen at https://www.designthefuturepodcast.com/episodes/shannon-goodman or on your favorite podcast platform. (Please consider leaving a review on Apple or Spotify; it really helps people find us!)
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Kira Gould Hon. AIA
Kira Gould CONNECT
Mission Hills KS
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