
Anna Heringer: 'You can build with clay in a very modern way'
AJ Climate Champions
The Future of Sustainable Design
In the global south materials are expensive and labor is cheaper, but here in the north it's the other way around. You've said that building with earth has social justice benefits, because the main cost goes to laborers rather than international companies. So if we think about the just transition to a more sustainable economy, there's an argument that we need to replace jobs doing unsustainable things like driving Uber's or advertising unnecessary products with more sustainable work. Does building and maintaining earth buildings have a role to play in providing this kind of work for the global north? Yes, definitely. And the good news is that you can do the earth and walls in a very low tech way,. In a transition phase that