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
57 episodes
Airbnb Bets $250M on Housing, “Let America Build” Goes National, & Robots Take on Construction
This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Housing takes center stage this week as Airbnb makes a $250 million bet on getting more homes built, a national coalition pushes communities to “Let America Build,” and local housing battles show just how ...
Custom Homes, Common Values
Sara Gutterman talks with Rob Cecil, CEO and President of Alair Homes, about why the true value of a home begins long before construction starts. From custom homes as one-of-a-kind prototypes to wellness architecture, climate resilience, ...
ICE Raids Hit Homebuilding, Passive House Outperforms Codes, and Old Homes Make a Comeback
This Week’s Sustainable Building News: ICE enforcement is disrupting construction labor in some markets, Passive House is dramatically outperforming standard energy codes, and buyers are showing renewed interest in older homes. Plus: affordable...
Mormon Church’s 50,000-Home Dream
This Week’s Sustainable Building News. The Mormon Church emerges as a major housing developer, new data show single-family construction spending falling, windowless bedrooms face a ban, plug-in solar comes to California, and modular housing get...
Housing’s New Reality: Build It to Survive
This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Stronger building codes, wildfire protection, passive survivability, extreme heat, tariffs, manufactured housing, modular construction and 3D-printed homes are reshaping what resilience and affordability m...
The Impact Series: Valerie Miller
Mike and Valerie talk about AI data centers, water use and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
AI Is Talking About You to Home Buyers
This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Housing starts are falling, AI is influencing home-buying decisions, and affordability is changing where Americans are willing to live. In this episode, we break down the biggest stories shaping housing, s...
The Housing Shortage Myth
In this solo episode, Sara challenges the idea that America’s housing crisis is simply a shortage problem. Drawing on Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing report and COGNITION Smart Data affordability research, she explores why the ...
Housing News This Week: AI, ADUs, Wildfire Resilience, and Home Performance
This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Can renovating an existing home be more sustainable than building new? How is artificial intelligence changing housing and energy infrastructure? Why is wildfire resilience becoming a priority for every bu...
What Else Can AI Gobble Up? The Housing Market.
This Week's Sustainable Building News: Can AI data centers make housing more expensive? This week we examine how Ameri...
What Space Travel Can Teach Us About Earth’s Water Crisis
In this episode of The Impact Series, host Mike Collignon talks with Dr. Sybil Sharvelle of Colorado State University about the future of water in an increasingly dry West—and what we can learn from an unlikely source: space travel.From ...
The Case for Passive Survivability
Sara Gutterman talks with Lisa White, Co-Executive Director of Phius, about what buildings really cost the grid—and what they should deliver to the people inside them when conditions turn extreme. Together, they explore passive building, ...
3 Forces Reshaping Housing: Washington. Wall Street. Weather.
This Week's Sustainable Building News: What do Congress, Wall Street, the electric grid, AI data centers, and homebuyers all have in common? They're reshaping the future of housing. This week, Ronan breaks down the biggest stories affect...
800,000 Homes in God's Backyard? Building Code Battles, and the Future of Sustainable Cities Rises In Greece
This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Could churches become one of America's biggest new housing developers? This week, we explore the fast-growing YIGBY mo...
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...
