2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Reducing Our Environmental Footprint | Energy Efficiency | 144 SPEAKING OF SUSTAINABILITY From an early age, Laura Garciandia has had an interest in renewable energy. Now, as a plant leader at our plant in San Vicente, Spain, she is bringing that passion to her work, inspiring her colleagues to join her in helping reduce her workplace’s environmental footprint. She recognizes the positive impact that our everyday actions can have throughout the world, and she shares how people are coming together at her site to make a difference. Photo courtesy of Laura Garciandia On her early interest in sustainability, and how she’s passing it on I remember my teacher talking about petrol, carbon, and the problem that we could have in the future if we don’t work together to find new solutions. Now the situation is very different. We have the solution there — it is a matter of making things happen. And I think companies should be a role model for the rest of the community. In my daughters’ education, I like to show them that we need to be responsible and that we need to think about the future of our world. On a daily basis, we make thousands of decisions that could be aligned with these values, and this is something that I would like to show them. And I would like that they grow up knowing that our daily decisions can have a great impact all around us. On the excitement for renewable energy among her colleagues We are one of the facilities that we use renewable energy 100 percent. At the beginning of 2020, we signed a contract with the electricity supplier to ensure that our electricity comes from renewable energy. If all companies did the same, we would be pushing the electricity suppliers to ensure more and more renewable energy — and in the end, we would be changing the world. It is simple, but it is important. Some operators of our facility here in Spain asked me about this process because they wanted to do the same with their electricity at home. I think that those small steps could change the world. On leading by example and helping change the world It is important that we have business objectives related to sustainability, and then cascade these business objectives in simple KPIs. It’s also very important that every employee understands how he or she can contribute to this business objective. And it is not only the impact that we have in the facility, it is the impact of all the people who work here, the contractors and other people who come to this facility. And this is something very motivating for me because we are not talking about only the energy we are using here in this facility, it’s also the impact that we could have around that in the society, in the community. Let’s go ahead and start with small initiatives and let’s try to create this new mindset in the people and in the community. It’s not only about the energy we’re using, it’s also the impact we can have on society. ” “ Laura Garciandia Plant Leader