#29: Living, Breathing, Beautiful Buildings with Lindsay Baker

Earthlings 2.0 Podcast

Hello Earthlings! In today’s episode, our host Lisa Ann Pinkerton (CEO of Technica Communications), is joined by Lindsay Baker (CEO and Chief Strategist of the International Living Future Institute) to explore a future where living buildings give more to the environment and society then they take. To hear Lindsay say it, designing buildings that use materials that won’t make us sick, reuse their water, generate their own energy and create economic and community benefits is not a far-fetched idea.

Lisa and Lindsay discuss the Living Building Challenge work of the International Living Future Institute, as well as examples of buildings already in existence like the Kendeda building in Atlanta. Digressions include the tiny home movement, composting toilets, and the healing power of plants.

In Restoring Our Faith in Humanity this week are Sebastião and Lélia Salgado, a Brazilian couple who spent over 20 years restoring their section of Atlantic Rainforest from a barren land to a thriving forest full of wildlife.

This is the third episode in our built environment series, to hear the other episodes in this series please see the links below:

• S2E5 - Electrification: the Smart Home Upgrade
• S3E4 - The Big Idea Behind Tiny Homes

Key Topics:

• What Living Buildings are and how they are used
• Examples like the Kendeda building in Atlanta, and the Bullitt Center in Seattle
• The Red List - a program that screens building materials for a set of chemicals that are known to be harmful for human health, especially carcinogenic materials
• How the living building challenge fits in with the other types of certifications, such as the LEED, the Green Building certification and Zero-Carbon certification.
• Building codes and Living Buildings

Voices on The Show:

Lindsay Baker, CEO and Chief Strategist of the International Living Future Institute

• X: Lindsay Baker
• LinkedIn: Lindsay Baker
• Instagram - Living Future Institute
• Lisa Ann Pinkerton, Earthlings 2.0 Host, CEO of Technica Communications, and Founder of Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
• LinkedIn: Lisa Ann Pinkerton
• X - Lisa Ann Pinkerton
• Instagram - @LisiAnni
• Technica Communications
• Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Mentioned in The Show:

• International Living Future Institute
• Introduction to Living Building Challenge
• Living Future Institute Red List
• Living Buildings Mentioned on the Show

The Bullit Center

The Kendeda Building

Restoring Faith in Humanity Spotlight:

Sebastião and Lélia Salgado, Instituto Terra

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