Creating a Better Concrete with Emily Majewski

Regenerative Real Estate Podcast
Written By Neal Collins (he/him)

Roughly 4.3 billion of us live in urban areas around the globe. That means over half the world population lives amongst concrete rather than trees. They live in homes that were built cheaply with materials that are known to cause environmental and human harm.

Concrete, which is energy and emissions intensive, took over the world around 200 years ago. Emily Majewski thinks it's time for its reign to end. Experimenting in her backyard in Mexico, she created a new, environmentally-friendly building material made from biochar called Cast Carbon.

In a recent episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, we hear why Emily and her husband moved to a foreign country to raise their child, how she realized that popular alternative building materials like lime and adobe are not the future, and how she set out on a mission to discover a new material that mimics nature’s strongest bones and shells. Learn more about Emily’s work and her company Phytostone.

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Neal Collins (he/him)

Neal is the co-founder of Latitude, a regenerative-focused real estate company that works with change agents across North America. His work has brought him around the globe across three-continents as a business leader, consultant, and project manager. He has a dynamic background that combines sustainability with investment analysis and marketing and communications. He is the host of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, and is a public speaker, author, and father. He holds a Bachelors in Agriculture Economics, a Masters in Sustainable Development, and is Living Future Accredited.

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