Laura strives to continually engage with systems thinking and community-based design to advance projects towards healthy, energy efficient, and adaptable spaces. Laura’s diverse work experience includes solar electric system design and installation, natural ventilation and daylighting analysis, documentation of historic rammed earth buildings in the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco, biodiesel production, an off-grid design/build company in Colorado, a research fellow at the Energy Studies in Buildings Lab (ESBL) at the University of Oregon, a practicing architect of net zero energy buildings, and a community facilitator around climate resilience.