BucketOrange, The Green Issue, Vol 1, April 2016 The Green Issue, Vol 1, April 2016 | Page 3

WRITTENBY:
SARAHLYNCH

BUCKETOZEST

Featured stories about the best and brightest Australian lawyers innovatively
thinking outside the bucket and striving to make a healthy social or environmental
impact.

W e caught up with James Ford, from Nexus
Law Group, to talk about his pioneering work in
the area of green development legal work, its
future impact on the legal industry and why
more young Australians need to know about it.

Tel l us about your background,
and how you came t o be
int erest ed in sust ainabl e
devel opment ?
"I have always had a passion for innovative
technology and architecture ? and as a result I find
myself naturally gravitating towards the global trends
in sustainable development, especially Green
Buildings.
My background is varied (IT, Property Development,
Small Business, and Law) across government and
industry in Australia and the Asia Pacific region, so
there seemed to be a natural fit with an area as
diverse as Green Development. Working with an
innovative dispersed law firm, like Nexus Law Group,
has given me the flexibility and support I need to
effectively work in this emerging area.
After reading R. Buckminster Fuller?s book,
"Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" I was
strongly influenced to support projects that had a
focus on sustainability.
As I learnt more about 'Bucky', I found he had
developed very simple, yet effective architectural
solutions that were strong, cheap and could be built
very quickly, using simple and light hexagonal
structures, like in a bee hive, called 'geodesic
domes'."
2 BucketO range / April 2016