The Green Builder Media Network
From breaking news and market signals to deep dives on sustainability, value, policy, resilience, and meaning, the Green Builder Media Podcast Network brings together the industry’s most trusted voices to explore how homes are designed, built, valued, and lived in.
Episodes
30 episodes
New Homes Save Money, Builders Face Lawsuits, AI Competes for Power
Florida may be rewriting the rules of homebuilding. New homes could save buyers thousands. And the AI boom? It may be competing with communities for power.This week on This Week in Sustainable Building News, Ronan Mirza breaks down the f...
Price Is a Snapshot. Value Is a Story
In this episode, Sara and Cynthia expose a major economic blind spot: we’ve optimized for the transaction, not the experience.
This Week in Housing: Resilient Homes Get Payback, AI Reveals Climate-Risk Pricing, Two Paths to IECC Code.
Resilient homes may finally start paying homeowners back, AI pulls back the curtain on climate-risk insurance pricing, affordable housing financing faces new uncertainty, and the future of building codes may be getting a major rewrite.St...
The Impact Series: Tim O'Brien
Mike and Tim talk about high-performance homes, workforce development and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
This Week in Housing: AI Disrupts Jobsites, $9B Rebates in Limbo, 55+ Buyers Surge
In this week’s housing and construction news roundup, we break down the forces reshaping where—and how—we build, from climate risk and water constraints to AI-powered jobsite tool, shifting federal housing policy, and a new generation of cash-r...
Making Carbon Visible in Housing
Sara Gutterman talks with Matthew Cooper, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at PEG, about how energy modeling, performance validation, and embodied carbon measurement are changing the way homes are designed, built, finance...
Childcare Costs vs. Housing Prices: A Cost Squeeze with No Easy Way Out
In this week’s housing and construction news roundup, we break down the real forces driving costs higher—from childcare expenses now exceeding affordability benchmarks in every state, to infrastructure uncertainty, water constraints, a...
Stop Building for Resale. Start Building for Life.
Nick Fazli, Director of Sustainability for Sekisui House, offers a provocative look at how short-term thinking is eroding long-term value in housing and the economy, and how to reverse it.
Housing Affordability vs Energy Codes, The Rise of Green Homes, and Pre-Approved Housing
In this week’s Sustainable Building News, we break down one of the biggest shifts happening right now: the growing divide between housing affordability and performance—and why the metrics we’ve relied on may be leading us in the wrong direction...
Selling Trust in a Transactional World
Sara and Dennis explore how the principles that power great retail—trust, relationships, and customer experience—offer a blueprint for fixing how value is created in housing and across the entire economy.
Policy Shifts, Energy Strain, Fire Readiness
Housing policy, energy affordability, wildfire resilience, and climate action—here are the biggest sustainable building stories this week:
The Impact Series: Chris Castro
Mike and Chris talk about clean energy, public service and a whole lot more.
This Week's Sustainable Building News: Where Housing Is Headed Next
Housing policy, energy codes, and affordable housing innovation—here are the biggest sustainable building stories this week. From federal policy shakeups to a gas utility entering geothermal—this week signals major shifts in how we build. Plus ...
The Valuation Metric: A Crisis of Conscience
Sara queries, what if the affordability crisis is not just a market failure, but a reflection of deeper internal and cultural misalignment?
This Week's Sustainable Building News: The Housing Reset Is Already Underway
The Housing Reset Is Already Underway with housing policy, energy codes, and affordable housing innovation.Judge blocks requirements from H...
The Impact Series: Kate Berglund
Mike and Kate talk about Burning Man, AI and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
This Week's Sustainable Building News: 3/25
The biggest stories shaping sustainable building this week: In this episode of This Week’s Sustainable Building News, Cati O’Keefe breaks down a new report on green building news, housing policy, energy codes, Editors’ Product Pick, calendar of...
The Valuation Metric: Reimagining Business Value
For decades, businesses have optimized for short-term returns—quarterly earnings, first costs, and price per square foot. But as climate risk, resource constraints, and economic instability rise, a new question is emerging: Ar...
This Week's Sustainable Building News: 3/18
In this episode of This Week in Sustainability, Cati O’Keefe breaks down the most important housing and building news shaping the industry right now. This episode covers:
The Impact Series: Dr. Jim White
This isn’t a future problem. It’s already happening. In this episode of The Impact Series, Mike Collignon sits down with Dr. Jim White—leading climate scientist and Dean at UNC Chapel Hill—to break down what decades of researc...
This Week's Sustainable Building News: 3/11
In this episode of This Week in Sustainability, Cati O’Keefe breaks down how the intersection of energy volatility, AI expansion, and building/code policy is creating new pressures—and perhaps opportunities—for sustainable housing.
The Valuation Metric: The Truth About “Price Per Square Foot” No One Says Out Loud
The system is broken. And everyone knows it. In this episode of The Valuation Metric, Sarah Gutterman sits down with Steve Byers (Energy Logic) to expose a hard truth: The housing market rewards the wrong things. Builders who invest...
This Week's Sustainable Building News: 3/4
In this episode of This Week in Sustainability, Cati O’Keefe breaks down the most important housing and building news shaping the industry right now. This episode covers: Baldwin Village by Thrive Living bui...
