Sustainability is an imperative, not a nice to have. My Earth Day 2022 guest Stacy Smedley shares how she turned her passion for a better world into an advocacy based career and became a leading voice of the industry.
Have an impact first attitude. It's about what you can do, not the channel you use to get there. Do more than get credentials.
Ask for the opportunities you want and see how the work you are doing today contributes to those opportunities.
Look for ways to learn by getting involved in the greater community of professionals. This will create a network to elevate your impact. Your network isn't a hub and spoke hierarchy. It's an ecosystem of interconnected resources and abilities.
Sustainable measures should be based on the project goals, not an evaluation system. The system you choose will then help you stretch what you consider for the project.
Stop thinking about sustainability from where you sit. Think in the context of the industry, the community and globally.
Know what terms like embodied carbon mean and make sure everyone on your team is speaking the same language.
This year's Earth Day theme Invest in Our Planet can challenge us to think not just of how we can incentivize sustainability but the cost of not taking action.
Sustainability, resilience and equity are interconnected and as you achieve impact in one area, you begin to also impact the others, so think about how they can work together on your projects.
Don't be afraid of the 3/4 baked idea. Share thoughts in development and work in progress within your network to improve and amplify them.
Contact Stacy stacy.smedley@buildingtransparency.org or find her on LinkedIn
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