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
16 episodes
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...
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9:24
The Impact Series: Kate Berglund
Mike and Kate talk about Burning Man, AI and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
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35:48
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...
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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...
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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:
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8:57
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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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The Impact Series: Bill Lazar
Everyone’s talking about affordability. Almost no one is defining it correctly. In this episode of The Impact Series, Mike Collignon sits down with Bill Lazar—affordable housing leader with nearly four decades of experience—to...
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This Week's Sustainable Building News: 2/25
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: IBS/KBIS Update! The products and sessions r...
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This Week's Sustainable Building News: 2/11
This news wrap-up drops every Wednesday. Subscribe, share, and help us grow the Green Builder Media Network! In this episode of This Week's Sustainable Building News, Cati O’Keefe breaks down the most important housing and building news ...
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The Impact Series: Nathan Good
“The battle to prevent climate change… may already be lost.” In this episode of The Impact Series, Mike Collignon sits down with Nathan Good—renowned sustainable architect and early LEED pioneer—to confront a shift the industry doesn’t wa...
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The Impact Series: Deirdre Irwin on What's Really Driving Florida's Water Shortage
It looks like there’s water everywhere. There isn’t. In this episode of The Impact Series, Mike Collignon sits down with Deirdre Irwin—water conservation leader with over 30 years at the St. Johns River Water Management District—to ...
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The Valuation Metric: The “Town of the Future” That Already Exists
What if we’ve been building communities completely backward? In this episode of The Valuation Metric, Sarah Gutterman talks with Lucienne Pears of Babcock Ranch—the first fully solar-powered town in the U.S.—about a radical idea: Build wi...
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The Valuation Metric: From Price to Purpose: Rewriting the Rules of Value
Price per square foot built the last century of housing. Value per square foot should build the next.For most of the 20th century, the American housing market was fundamentally local. Small and mid-sized builders worked hand-in-hand with...
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