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Building Greener, Smarter, and Off the Grid with Pangea Builders CEO Jonah Reynolds
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Horacio spoke with Jonah Reynolds, CEO at Pangea Builders. Pangea Builders is a design and build firm for sustainable and off-grid buildings. Pangea focuses on the home's water, power, wastewater, and heating/cooling systems. In this episode, Jonah discusses the benefits of sustainable off-grid systems, their advantages to traditional buildings, and the company’s mission to educate future sustainable builders.
Discussion topics include:
Building off-grid custom homes and Earthships
Conventional backups to help sustainable systems
Using thermal mass, or earth-type material, for frame walls
Adding value to homes by making them self-sufficient
Working with municipal governments for green building
Using thermal mass to complement solar power
Inviting designers and architects to Pangea builds
Frame buildings designed to be as cheap as possible
California laws requiring new homes have solar power systems
Building in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake
Jumping through bureaucratic red tape to build after disasters
Getting sustainable buildings into the mainstream
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84 episodes
Manage episode 324516977 series 3267809
Horacio spoke with Jonah Reynolds, CEO at Pangea Builders. Pangea Builders is a design and build firm for sustainable and off-grid buildings. Pangea focuses on the home's water, power, wastewater, and heating/cooling systems. In this episode, Jonah discusses the benefits of sustainable off-grid systems, their advantages to traditional buildings, and the company’s mission to educate future sustainable builders.
Discussion topics include:
Building off-grid custom homes and Earthships
Conventional backups to help sustainable systems
Using thermal mass, or earth-type material, for frame walls
Adding value to homes by making them self-sufficient
Working with municipal governments for green building
Using thermal mass to complement solar power
Inviting designers and architects to Pangea builds
Frame buildings designed to be as cheap as possible
California laws requiring new homes have solar power systems
Building in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake
Jumping through bureaucratic red tape to build after disasters
Getting sustainable buildings into the mainstream
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Follow Alts
- Website & newsletter: https://alts.co
- Discord: https://discord.gg/DEkHgzggwC
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/altassetsclub
- Insta: https://instagram.com/alts_co
- Link to Alan Goldsher playlist
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