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353 days ago
Leadership is about making brave decisions.

By Justin Nurse via IOL.

In this Pied Piper Project instalment, a LeadSA and Daily News initiative, Justin Nurse talks to Richard Palmer, a thought leader in green building and urban sustainability and a lead design consultant at WSP Green by Design.

Background

I was born in Grahamstown. My parents were ecologists and I spent my childhood on mudflats, rivers, marshlands and national parks. As a result, I’ve always wanted to do environmentally sustainable stuff.

After graduating from UCT with a degree in mechanical engineering, I somehow ended up in Australia, with a job as a sustainable design consultant in a firm that turned out to be the market leader in green buildings.

For the next four years I was on a roller-coaster of green buildings and urban sustainability. Since returning home in 2009, my focus has been on contributing what I have learnt mostly to the Green Building Council of South Africa.

To read the full article on IOL.co.za click here: http://bit.ly/L6MvF6

Richard Palmer.

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