Episode 12- How can we sustain sustainability?
After all the work we do to create green buildings and communities, what happens when the “experts” leave the job? Whatever level of environmental performance is achieved, the physical systems begin to break down. Whatever knowledge is conveyed about how these new, green systems work, people often forget the nuances and return to Business As Usual (BAU). How can we sustain and even improve what has been designed?
Our guest, Carol Sanford, is the founder of Interoctave and a partner in the Regenerative Communities Group, consulting firms that engage green design and business consulting from a radically different perspective — human environments and activities can and should be engines of positive evolutionary change for all living systems. Carol has been leading major consulting efforts for Fortune 500 and new economy businesses for over 25 years. She has worked for companies such as Colgate, DuPont, Weyerhaeuser, Yahoo, Silicon Graphic, Agilent and many others.
