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  <title>Scaling Sustainability from Buildings to Communities with Julio Carrillo</title>
  <description>🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: From rural Peru to the skyline of Austin, Texas, Julio Carrillo shares how planners can be powerful sustainability changemakers. In this episode, learn how a LEED Fellow is pushing the green building movement beyond buildings — and into data-driven, community-scale transformation. 👷‍♂️&amp;amp;nbsp;Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Julio Carrillo is a Peruvian-born architect, urban planner, and newly named LEED Fellow based in Austin, Texas. With a passion for sustainable urbanism, Julio has helped launch the Peru Green Building Council, works at Parkhill as a planner tackling large-scale urban projects, and lectures at UT Austin on AI and planning. His career is defined by actionable ideas, metric-driven innovation, and a relentless drive to move fast on meaningful change. 🌱 Breaking Ground on Better Building In this episode, Julio Carrillo revolutionizes traditional construction and planning approaches: 🧠&amp;amp;nbsp;Key Insight #1: Founding the Peru Green Building Council to ignite LEED adoption at a national level  The Challenge: Lack of local sustainability infrastructure and LEED awareness in Peru. The Solution: Co-founding the Peru GBC and launching a consulting firm. ROI: Grew from 1 to 100+ LEED projects in just two years; national transformation and market momentum.  🧠&amp;amp;nbsp;Key Insight #2: Creating the Planning Challenge to scale sustainability across communities  The Challenge: Cities lacked tools to track decarbonization and climate goals. The Solution: Built a dashboard platform inspired by Architecture 2030 to track 100+ metrics across 15+ cities. ROI: Expanded nationally and internationally, empowering cities to benchmark and scale climate solutions.  🧠&amp;amp;nbsp;Key Insight #3: Teaching planners to leverage AI for public good  The Challenge: AI is often personalized, not built for community impact. The Solution: Developed and now teaches a UT Austin course on AI &amp;amp;amp; planning. ROI: Equips future planners with tools to use AI for equity, access, and sustainable development.  🗣 Sustainable Soundbite  “Every building is a little piece of the big puzzle. We’ve done great with green buildings — now we need green communities.” — Julio Carrillo  ✅&amp;amp;nbsp;Your Green Building Action Plan Transform your next project with these steps:  This Week: Explore the LEED for Cities and Communities framework This Quarter: Begin tracking key sustainability metrics for your city or district This Year: Launch or support a data-driven sustainability initiative like the Planning Challenge  🔗&amp;amp;nbsp;Connect &amp;amp;amp; Learn More 🌿 Access full episode resources: Green Building Matters Podcast 🗒 Read the transcript  here 👩🏻‍💻 Connect with Julio Carrillo:  Website: urbanammo.wordpress.com&amp;amp;nbsp;, perugbc.org.pe LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/julio-carrillo-aicp-leed-fellow-83636529/  💚 Join the Green Building Movement: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe ♻️&amp;amp;nbsp;Want More Green Building Insights? Get sustainability tips 2x a week. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter here: 👉 https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe Green Building Matters, Inc © 2025 | Good Green Fun. &amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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