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Cultural Intelligence Solving Problems

(Speaking Indigenous language) Greetings, my relatives and my people. (Speaking Indigenous language) My name is Lyla June. (Speaking Indigenous language) I come from the [Indigenous name] matrilineal clan of the Diné Nation. We are also incorrectly known as the “Navajo…

Resilient Design: Singapore

Singapore, when the British left us, in 1960, three out of four people lived in squatter areas. You probably don’t even know what is a squatter area, but in those days, it was just all over town. So the government…

Ending Global Energy Poverty

Welcome to the gates of hell. Now depending on your frame of mind, that is either a bizarrely morbid or entirely appropriate way to start a talk about climate action in the year 2022. Behind me is a picture from…

Geothermal Heating Systems

One of the hallmarks of living in a technologically advanced society is even the little details of life that seem mundane end up being astonishing, like the fact that it takes five gallons of water to produce a walnut, or…

Cultural Design Solutions

When you imagine the architectural wonders of the world, what do you see? The greatness of the Pyramids of Giza or maybe the amazing aqueducts of Ancient Rome? Both of these are amazing feats of human innovation. As an architect,…

Cradle To Cradle Design

In 1962, with Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn’t singing. And so the question that we might not have birds became kind…

Industrial Chemistry Transformation

I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, back in the ’80s and ’90s. Venezuela is a beautiful country, rich with natural treasures from beaches to rainforests. But one thing that people don’t quite realize is that we also have…