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November 8, 2020

Presentando a Andrew Himes

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Andrew Himes is Director of Collective Impact at the Life Cycle Lab at the University of Washington, working on collective impact initiatives to reduce embodied carbon emissions in built environments, including building materials, design, construction, and retrofits. He hosts the NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon, explores opportunities for collective action to reduce embodied carbon, and manages strategic communications. In 2018, he was coordinator of Día de la construcción inteligente con carbono, a conference affiliated with the Global Climate Action Summit focused on transforming the global building industry to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

In 1987 Himes was founding editor of MacTech, still today the leading Apple technology journal, then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early 90s. Himes was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International. He is the author of La espada del Señor: las raíces del fundamentalismo en una familia estadounidense and was producer/author of the 2004 documentary Voces en tiempos de guerra.

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In October 2020 I happily joined the Carbon Leadership Forum staff in a new permanent position as Director of Collective Impact. Some of you may know that I have worked with Kate and the Carbon Leadership Forum for a few years now, first as a volunteer, then in a part-time and temporary position, and now as a full-timer.

In 2017 I helped CLF develop a roadmap to identify key actions needed across the industry to decarbonize construction and materials. In 2018, I coordinated Carbon Smart Building Day at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to help the industry unite on a common vision and purpose to radically reduce both operational carbon and embodied carbon. In 2019 I helped develop a communications plan to support the launch of the EC3 tool, helped convene the first meeting of CLF’s NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon, and developed a CRM database to manage CLF’s growing network of professionals, companies, partners, communications, and projects. In 2020, I developed the online CLF Community and implemented the CLF’s new website and monthly newsletters.

Cuando haces una búsqueda en la web de "impacto colectivo", aprendes que impacto colectivo “Une a las personas, de forma estructurada, para lograr el cambio social. Comienza con una agenda común. Establece medición compartida. Fomenta actividades que se refuerzan mutuamente. Fomenta la comunicación continua. Y tiene una columna vertebral fuerte ".

Esta no es una idea nueva ni particularmente complicada. Simplemente significa que invitas a todos los que afirman tener un propósito común a unirse en una acción común. Significa que el verdadero cambio social se trata de equidad, intercambio y colaboración. El cambio social se trata de escuchar bien y ofrecer su pasión, recursos, energía y experiencia para lograr un futuro que posiblemente no podría alcanzar sin aliados y amigos.

El impacto colectivo ha sido la metodología central y el marco estratégico de todos los principales movimientos de cambio social en la historia de los Estados Unidos, desde la lucha para acabar con la esclavitud hasta la lucha por el derecho al voto de las mujeres, desde el movimiento de derechos civiles de los años 50 y 60 hasta nuestro esfuerzo actual para abordar el desafío climático en el contexto de la desigualdad económica y el racismo estructural.

Nuestra misión es eliminar el carbono incorporado en los edificios y la infraestructura inspirando la innovación y estimulando el cambio a través de la acción colectiva. Pero no es la misión de un pequeño grupo de personas en la Universidad de Washington. Es tu trabajo y el nuestro, un objetivo y un propósito reivindicado y compartido por amigos de todo el mundo que trabajan para crear un planeta que funcione para todos.

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You may have never heard the term “collective impact initiative” until now. But it is a strategy for creating change as well as a core philosophy that shapes everything we do. A few years ago – on November 7th, 2017 — at a CLF planning meeting at Greenbuild in Boston I heard Kate Simonen articulate collective impact in three simple, memorable words: “Farther, faster, together.” That day, I wrote down those words on a piece of paper and when I got home to Seattle, I taped it to the wall of my office.

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