Kai Abelkis is a pioneer in the sustainability movement, which he has been a part of for 25 years. He was the first full-time sustainability professional in the health-care industry in the United States and is now the Sustainability Manager at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He and I discuss the following questions:
- what was your relationship to the outdoors / the environment growing up?
- what formative messages did you receive about the environment when you were young?
- when did you first realize the environment was an important issue for you?
- how do you see the link between the environment and spiritual growth?