Episode 99: Lourdes Salinas

Lu Salinas has been working in the green building industry since 2006 -- with firms and on projects in the US, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Mexico, where she works today. Her consulting firm, THREE Environmental Consulting, has worked on everything from small affordable housing projects to large infrastructure projects such as the New International Mexico City Airport in Texcoco. 

She grew up in Mexico in a family of civil engineers, and happened upon the James Wines book, Sustainable Architecture, which sparked her awareness of and interest in the field. She got involved with the US Green Building Council, which led to opportunities around the world.

Lu sees the international green building industry from Mexico and has built THREE to help advance the level of the work in that region. “I am especially proud of our company’s rule,” she says. “We always do what’s right. I think we have held to this -- doing what is right for the most people.”

Salinas takes issue with the idea that the next generation will be the one to address climate change. “This is the responsibility of every generation that is currently living,” she says. “We all need to be doing something.”