Good morning, everyone. It is my great pleasure to be here with you talking about the challenges we are facing in prioritizing health and the design and develop an of Affordable Housing. Here to my left, the partner and owner of blue seed development, and has a lot to do with the video you just saw, which is pretty amazing. Yes, thank you. [applause] is bob simpson, Affordable Housing at fannie mae. Thank you, bob. Bob and i also it is of south dakota, the thing we found before this panel. Most likely we are the only 2 from south dakota. Just a little factoid for you. We will start with les, who is a housing developer. You have been at the forefront of linking health and housing for some time and it is a unique topic for the subject matter of this summit. Can you talk about how you got involved in this work and why it is important to you . May be about 10 years ago, we had been developing energyefficient homes, sustainable green buildings, under the program, and my partner and i decide
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We like cirque lar economy because we feel the circular economy is a different economic what were seeing is that the economy is starting to bump up against its limits. We have 3 billion middle class consumers in the next two decades. Weve seen a century of price declines so actually whats the option . What were doing is were being more efficient with that linear economy. Were using less. Being careful with the resources we have. But were still going to run out at some stage. Thats a huge issue for the Global Economy. A circular economy looks at from the outset, designing systems, designing products so you can recover materials so it is aligning Business Innovation with the design of products, materials and components which, through that Business Model innovation, allow those products to go back so that the materials can be recovered and thus create a restorative economy that can thrive in the long term and it is worth trillions of dollars globally. First of all, when you have a panel a
We like cirque lar economy because we feel the circular economy is a different economic what were seeing is that the economy is starting to bump up against its limits. We have 3 billion middle class consumers in the next two decades. Weve seen a century of price declines so actually whats the option . What were doing is were being more efficient with that linear economy. Were using less. Being careful with the resources we have. But were still going to run out at some stage. Thats a huge issue for the Global Economy. A circular economy looks at from the outset, designing systems, designing products so you can recover materials so it is aligning Business Innovation with the design of products, materials and components which, through that Business Model innovation, allow those products to go back so that the materials can be recovered and thus create a restorative economy that can thrive in the long term and it globally. First of all, when you have a panel and a beer maker on your panel,
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