Mohawk Group has launched a weekly virtual CEU series. Handprints Over Footprints will be hosted by Rami Vagal, senior manager, sustainability at Mohawk. Vagal is a multi-disciplinary professional with a strong background in sustainability, architecture, and construction.

Handprints Over Footprints: Combining Social Impact with Environmental Stewardship to Create Net-Positive Enterprises introduces the concept of Handprinting, and its increasing importance in the transformational movement of regenerative sustainability. This presentation will provide an overview of footprints and handprints along with the key differentiators of the concepts. It will cover how and why sustainability cannot be truly achievable without social equity. The content will address how various green building and product certifications such as Living Building Challenge, LEED v4.1, the WELL Building Standard, Living Product Challenge and others are addressing social equity and exploring different pathways for organizations to implement these.