Pete Muñoz

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Pete Muñoz leads the Cascadia Bioregion office of Biohabitats, a firm that applies the science of ecology to restoring ecosystems, conserving habitat, and regenerating the natural systems that sustain all life on Earth. Pete works around the globe helping to connect communities with appropriate inspirational living water infrastructure. A licensed engineer, he brings the balance of the water/energy/food/ ecology nexus into focus on infrastructure projects involving wastewater treatment, stormwater management, rainwater harvesting, environmental remediation, and watershed restoration. He has contributed to numerous SITES, LEED and Living Building Challenge projects, and in 2017 was recognized by the ILFI as a Living Building Hero.

Issue 35 | Handprints + Positive Impacts

The Handprint of a Flower

Pete Muñoz
October 11, 2018

The flower is used in so many metaphors. It is a regular stand-in for love, femininity, and even painfully fleeting beauty. A flower is a blossoming soul; the thing with which the earth laughs. In the case of the Living Building Challenge, it has provided an appropriate and elegant model for the efficiency of a building. As such a model,…