This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 51.

Containers are aggregating on our side because we're no longer a manufacturing nation,

much to our detriment.

And so as a company and as a team, we take pride in creating an innovative solution to take

these symptoms of our lack of manufacturing and in

fact quite innovatively turn those into a manufactured product that has a higher and best use

of the economy.

Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental

campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow.

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

Paul Galvin is the chairman and CEO of S.G. Blocks, the engineering and design firm behind some of the most innovative and sustainable container-based construction in the U.S.

So, Paul, welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.

Can you give us an idea of how nature, the environment, and sustainability played a role in your childhood growing up?

Oh, I'm an outdoors person.

And so I spent all of my weekends and summers in my childhood in the Pocono Mountains with my family and siblings and have always just had an

enormous appreciation for nature and all of its miracles.

Awesome. And how did your upbringing impact the experiences that you had as a young adult with

your peers and as you were kind of

figuring out what your early career path was going to be. How did your childhood really impact

that stuff? You know, my family, particularly my parents, were very service oriented and they did

that through our church. And so I grew up with a strong interest in social welfare and

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