Living Product Expo

MEDIA ADVISORY: 15th Annual Living Future Event Focuses on Greenest Buildings for a Healthy Future Key Speakers Include Co-Founder of Beneficial State Bank Kat Taylor SEATTLE – The world’s greenest developers, architects, and product designers will gather at Living Future 2021, the 15th annual conference hosted by the International Living Future Institute. At this crucial moment in history, the event…

How an innovative start-up is leveraging the original ingredient in Coca-Cola to kick start sustainable development in Nigeria Nigeria has been drowning in oil for decades. Since the mid-1950’s the country has suffered from a ‘resource curse’ economy, where the main source of economic development, oil, fuels concentration of wealth in the hands of a few elite and corrupt political…

Alex Co: Where do you live and what do you do? Pauline Souza: I live in Oakland. I am a partner and the director of sustainability at WRNS Studio, an architectural/planning firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Hawaii and Seattle, with a diverse portfolio of  sustainable design. Much of my career has been focused on creating healthy, resource-efficient spaces…

Alex Co: What is your role in your organization and in Pittsburgh? Adam Kenney: I’m the Director of the Monmade trade group at Bridgeway Capital, where we identify growth opportunities for regional “producers” (mostly artisans and designers). The Monmade and Bridgeway teams provide them with greater access to capital, guidance, markets, peers, space, and workforce. By empowering producers, we create…