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
43 episodes
Building Codes Don't Raise Home Prices, Data Centers Hit Roadblocks, & Why Americans Crave Big Homes
This Week's Sustainable Building News: Can stronger building codes actually make housing more affordable over the long run? This week we dive into g...
Counting Carbon and Pricing Risk
Sara Gutterman talks with Jay Ruckelshaus, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships and Policy at Gravity, about California’s SB 253, the evolving world of carbon accounting, and why emissions measurement is becoming central to honest valuation. Tog...
Google Wants to Sell Homes, HERS for Manufactured Homes, and Why Home Batteries Are Winning
July 8, 2026—This Week's Sustainable Building News We cover the latest housing policy, building science, energy, and consumer trends shaping the future of ho...
When Open Space Becomes the Asset
Sara Gutterman talks with Curt Johansen, Development Director at Triad Development and the visionary behind Lagoon Valley, the Bay Area’s first conservation community, about rethinking the relationship between housing, land, resilience, a...
Housing Finance Overhaul, Home Batteries as a Side Hustle, and a Crystal Sauna You Have to See
This Week's Sustainable Building News covers new housing finance legislation in Congress, a home battery program that pays homeowners to support th...
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4M Homes Missing, 6K Homes on 10 Acres, and an $11B Power Line
America is short roughly 4 million homes, yet one Indigenous-led development in Vancouver is building 6,000 homes on just 10 acres. Meanwhile, a new $11 billion transmission line highlights the massive infrastructure investments needed to suppo...
The Affordability Reckoning
Our current affordability crisis is the result of how we define value, what we measure, what we subsidize, and what we ignore. Sustainability, resilience, and wellness are the missing variables in a system obsessed with first cost and blind to ...
Housing Starts Crash, Solar Beats Coal, and a Startup Wants to Make It Rain
This Week's Sustainable Building News This week on Green Builder Media's Housing News Podcast, we explore the trends reshaping housing, sustainability, and r...
A 328-Foot 3D Printer, Nuclear-Powered AI, and the Fight Over America's Data Centers
This week on Green Builder Media's Sustainable Building News, we explore the growing backlash against data centers, including Google's Project Skyway data center, Arizona's push to streamline small modular nuclear reactors for data center power...
The Valuation Metric: Building Homes for Human Flourishing
Sara Gutterman talks with Doug Tarry, President of Doug Tarry Homes and author of From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge, about what happens when housing is valued not as a commodity, but as human infrastructure. Together, they explore why homes mu...
Scale, Resilience, and Resources Will Drive the Next Housing Cycle
This week on the Green Builder Media News Podcast, we cover one of the biggest housing stories of the year: Berkshire Hathaway's $8.5 billion acquisition of Taylor Morrison and what it could signal for the future of builder consolidation. We al...
The Impact Series: Kelly Kopp
Mike and Kelly talk about The Great Salt Lake, aliens and a whole lot more on The Impact Series.
Geothermal’s Big Moment, HUD Shakeups, Passive House Affordable Housing & More
Could geothermal become the clean energy source everyone actually agrees on? Why is Congress considering a new EV fee? And is affordable multifamily housing one of the biggest climate solutions hiding in plain sight?This week, we break d...
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.
