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Check us out at www. creativeinterface.design. Welcome friends. I'm your host James, and I'm very excited today to introduce what I anticipate will be a brand new product to most of you. I'm speaking with Marcus Silverberg, the founder of Block Solutions. A company specialized in affordable and sustainable housing solutions focused on creating opportunities for people that are in need for new beginnings through creating jobs and reliable housing in a sustainable way through locally owned and operated factories.

Their aim is to slow climate change block by block. This is the first of three episodes dedicated to block solutions, so make sure you also listen to part two and part three, please enjoy. I'm a civil engineer by training and I always hate that the old fashioned way to build houses of what there, you could always see where there are lacks education on how to build and, uh, it could be improved so much more.

And that's, that's actually one of the reasons why, uh, Been always in away, very, very much aware of the things that we could improve and make things more sustainable and environmentally friendly. So is that awareness come from your professional training or was there something more to your background that always leaned you towards trying to make a sort of an impact?

Well, well, in a way, actually, I, I've always been very interested trying to make things, things more sustainable because the thing is, For example, having that Sosa produce, that could be, let's say, having a big impact on a, a global level also. But, but the thing is, it's really when you see, when you live in the northern countries like Finland, Where you can see that during my lifestyle, I've seen a big difference within, let's say for example, the winters that we have in T, right?

The summers are getting much, much hotter that we have over there, but there's no snow anymore. When I used to be a kid, we have, let's say, uh, three feet of snow. Uh huh uh, in the, in the backyard. Now it's hardly, hardly we can get any snow over there where we live. Wow. That means that there is a significant change in climate, honestly said.

I think that our generation, I'm, I'm 50 now. I think we, we spoiled a thing. We are. So now we, we need to get something back. To those future generations. Of course, this is just one of the million ways to do that. But, uh, actually that's what I want to do. I would like to lead this planet the better than than when I came, than when, when my kids are actually growing up.

I wouldn't really like to make a change, greatest gift that we can give to our children. Is we in the world better than we found it? Yeah. That's not gonna happen unfortunately. Yeah. Now, uh, where we're already past that part, but I think that there is still something. Actually, the covid has actually shown that when you go to China and, uh, nobody's doing anything, let's say that, uh, that industries, they can see the clear sky and the water are clearing up.

Uh, actually there are deer walking down the pathways in, in big cities and so on. That's actually quite, quite fun to see. Mm-hmm. That there is a whole, it is just a humans who need to start thinking differently. Talk to me about the way that, that, uh, mindset led you to this product, its inception and how it came to be.

Yeah. Actually, the first thing was for, for the product was that, uh, I was working for the piping industry before. Mm-hmm. I was invited by United Nations to join a seminar in Geneva where they wanted to have actually a solutions for crisis management. There was an earthquake in Haiti in 2