Systems Thinking to Save the World - 50 years of Serious Commotion

The Building Science Podcast by Miguel Walker

Oct 21, 20251:24:31Science & Medicine

This may be the ultimate systems thinking interview. Beyond building science at the site scale, this is systems thinking to save the world. Gail Vittori and Pliny Fisk III have their fingerprints all over the structural...

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