Hey everybody, welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast. I'm Mosuonu here.

This week we hit the road traveling to Elkhart, Indiana, to see inside one of Amazon's newest and most advanced facilities.

It's a first of its kind building made entirely out of mass timber instead of steel or concrete.

It's part of a major effort Amazon is making to cut its carbon footprint while still, building made entirely out of mass timber instead of steel or concrete.

It's part of a major effort Amazon is making to cut its carbon footprint while still moving all the packages it does around the country and around the world every day.

After touring the site, I had a chance to sit down with Daniel Mallory.

He's the company's vice president of global realty and it allowed us to get an understanding of how a company like Amazon can actually go to net zero carbon by 2040.

That's their big goal.

We talk about the site itself, what mass timber actually is, how it stacks up against traditional construction, and just the larger sustainability storyline right now.

How Amazon weighs getting us our packages

as quickly as possible, as efficiently as possible, while also thinking about the environment.

He walked us through some of the 40-plus strategies that they have incorporated into this new

facility and how they take lessons from everybody and hope that the lessons from this facility

can apply to all companies out there and all developers out there.

We get at the big questions here again about global impact as well as efficiency, speed, cost, sustainability when it comes to customers.

A note here that this episode is sponsored by Amazon.

We have had the opportunity to partner with them several times

in the last couple of years. But as many of you longtime listeners know, that doesn't stop us from asking

all the important questions, including several that you sent in. With that, here's my conversation

on site in Elkhart, Indiana at an Amazon delivery center speaking with executive, Daniel Mallory.

Daniel, it's great to be chatting with you. Good to meet you. It's great to be in this facility in Elkhart, Indiana. Is this your first visit here? Yeah, this is actually, I came out here. I've done some walkthroughs and took a look at the facility, but spending time with you and walking through, first time. Yeah, so we had a chance to tour the inside and the outside of the facility.

You spent a lot of time focusing on the sustainability features here.

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