Length: Short (< 1 hour)
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Historic buildings, modern policies
Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.
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Workforce solutions for decarbonizing buildings
Manny Pastreich, President of 32BJ SEIU, joins John Mandyck to discuss mobilizing the green workforce.
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Retrofits in occupied buildings
Hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.
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Decarbonizing finance
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joins John Mandyck to discuss how finance can be used to advance decarbonization.
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The sustainability myth
What are the hidden costs and contradictions of NYC’s sustainability agenda? Dr. Melissa Checker joins Amy Marpman and Ellen Honigstock to unpack the “sustainability myth.”
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Decarbonizing Finance to Combat Climate Change
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joined John Mandyck for a conversation about his net zero plan and how finance can be a lever for decarbonization.
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Cutting down embodied carbon
Ellen Honigstock and Prateek Srivastava sit down with Stantec’s Robby Vogel to get a structural engineer’s take on strategies to reduce embodied carbon.
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Prioritizing environmental justice as we electrify
Sonal Jessel, Director of Policy at WE ACT, joins Zakiyah Sayyed and Anushka Maqbool to discuss how electrification must benefit historically disadvantaged communities.
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Decoding New York State’s all-electric new buildings law
New York will become the first state in the country to require new buildings to be all-electric. Here’s what to know.
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Pathways to electrification (w/ Ian Shapiro)
Ian Shapiro joined Urban Green Live to talk actionable steps for electrification in buildings.
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Innovations in sustainable construction
This 2018 conversation between the late Michael Deane and Ellen Honigstock touches on eliminating construction waste and innovations at the intersection of sustainability and construction.
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Embodied carbon 101
Embodied carbon will play a key role in our path to decarbonizing buildings. Aurora Jensen joins Shruti Narkar to discuss how.
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Achieving science-based net zero (w/ Karl Downey)
We sat down with Karl Downey to discuss the Science Based Targets Initiative and their Building Sector Guidance.
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There’s a better way to assess building energy
Current benchmarking of building performance provides data on a monthly basis. Taylor Duncan and Molly-Dee Ramasamy think we can do better.
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What’s next for healthy buildings (w/ Dr. Joe Allen)
Dr. Joe Allen is back on Urban Green Live to discuss highlights from his new book!