Presentamos 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 del Edificio Carbono Inteligente, 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 Red de desarrolladores de Microsoft and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early 90s. Himes was founding executive director for Carta de 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 tiempo de guerra.

por Andrew Himes

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 realiza una búsqueda en la web de "impacto colectivo", se entera de que impacto colectivo “reúne a las personas, de manera estructurada, para lograr el cambio social. Comienza con una agenda común. Establece una medida compartida. Fomenta actividades que se refuerzan mutuamente. Fomenta la comunicación continua. Y tiene una columna vertebral fuerte”.

Esta no es una idea nueva o particularmente complicada. Simplemente significa que invitas a todos los que reclaman un propósito común a unirse en una acción común. Significa que el verdadero cambio social tiene que ver con la equidad, el compartir y la colaboración. El cambio social se trata de escuchar bien y ofrecer su pasión, recursos, energía y experiencia para lograr un futuro que 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 EE. abordar el desafío climático en el contexto de la desigualdad económica y el racismo estructural.

Nuestra misión es eliminar el carbono incorporado en edificios e 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 su trabajo y el nuestro, un objetivo y propósito reivindicado y compartido por amigos de todo el mundo que trabajan para crear un planeta que funcione para todos.