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Building Tomorrow

Heating with ice

Mark MacCracken, the Vice President of CALMAC at Trane Technologies, joins host Ellen Honigstock and co-host Whitney Smith to discuss thermal energy storage.

June 17, 2024

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Building Tomorrow

Unearthing geothermal energy

Brightcore's Jonathan Hernandez joins Urban Green's Ellen Honigstock to discuss geothermal energy.

April 10, 2024

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Urban Green Live

The Green Economy Action Plan (w/ Nse Esema)

Nse Esema joined Urban Green Live to discuss NYC's Green Economy Action Plan.

March 27, 2024

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Building Tomorrow

Commissioning, you complete me!

Building systems are designed and installed separately, but they need to work together for a building to function as intended. Kelly Westby and Ellen Honigstock discuss how it happens.

February 14, 2024

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Building Tomorrow

Historic buildings, modern policies

Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.

January 17, 2024

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Building Tomorrow

Workforce solutions for decarbonizing buildings

Manny Pastreich, President of 32BJ SEIU, joins John Mandyck to discuss mobilizing the green workforce.

December 18, 2023

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Urban Green Live

Office to residential conversions: The carbon story (w/ David Farnsworth & Tess McNamara)

How much carbon could be saved by 2050 if NYC expanded the range of buildings eligible for office to residential conversions?

December 6, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

Retrofits in occupied buildings

Hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.

November 29, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

Decarbonizing finance

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joins John Mandyck to discuss how finance can be used to advance decarbonization.

October 24, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

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."

October 4, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

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.

August 23, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

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.

May 10, 2023

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Urban Green Live

Pathways to electrification (w/ Ian Shapiro)

Ian Shapiro joined Urban Green Live to talk actionable steps for electrification in buildings.

April 21, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

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.

April 12, 2023

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Building Tomorrow

Embodied carbon 101

Embodied carbon will play a key role in our path to decarbonizing buildings. Aurora Jensen joins Shruti Narkar to discuss how.

February 17, 2023

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