The Built Environment
Humans rely on the built environment to survive, experience safety, and to live and work across a broad number of climate zones otherwise unconducive to the modern living and working environments. According to the International Energy Agency 2018 report which focused on the construction sector:
The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and products such as steel, cement and glass.₁
Location, Location, Location.
Since a significant portion of my followers are from the United States or elsewhere around the globe, they might be curious why I would choose Mexico - and this location specifically in Mexico - as the location to launch this project. They might assume that I chose this location because it is where I happen to be living, but it's more complicated than that. When I first began researching this topic, I had no other reason for focusing on this location than the fact that it was where I had been living the past 6 years. But as I read and learned more and more, the logic fell into place with convenience to make an ideal match.
Understanding our Work
One of the key issues society faces in dealing with climate change is the general lack of public understanding surrounding unique areas of disruption and methods for solving not only the climate crisis, but the secondary and tertiary systemic effects caused by a changing climate.