Building Greener, Smarter, and Off the Grid with Pangea Builders CEO Jonah Reynolds

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English - April 04, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 59 MB
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Horacio spoke with Jonah Reynolds, CEO at Pangea Builders. Pangea Builders is a design and build firm for sustainable and off-grid buildings. Pangea focuses on the home's water, power, wastewater, and heating/cooling systems. In this episode, Jonah discusses the benefits of sustainable off-grid systems, their advantages to traditional buildings, and the company’s mission to educate future sustainable builders.

Discussion topics include:

Building off-grid custom homes and Earthships

Conventional backups to help sustainable systems

Using thermal mass, or earth-type material, for frame walls

Adding value to homes by making them self-sufficient

Working with municipal governments for green building

Using thermal mass to complement solar power

Inviting designers and architects to Pangea builds

Frame buildings designed to be as cheap as possible

California laws requiring new homes have solar power systems

Building in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Jumping through bureaucratic red tape to build after disasters