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Unearthing geothermal energy
In this episode of Building Tomorrow, Brightcore's Jonathan Hernandez joins Urban Green's Ellen Honigstock to discuss geothermal energy.
April 10, 2024
Historic buildings, modern policies
In this episode of Building Tomorrow, Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.
January 17, 2024
Workforce solutions for decarbonizing buildings
Manny Pastreich, President of 32BJ SEIU, joins John Mandyck on Building Tomorrow to discuss mobilizing the green workforce.
December 18, 2023
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
Retrofits in occupied buildings
In this episode of Building Tomorrow, hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.
November 29, 2023
Decarbonizing finance
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joins John Mandyck to discuss how finance can be used to advance decarbonization.
October 24, 2023
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
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
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
Pathways to electrification (w/ Ian Shapiro)
Ian Shapiro joined Urban Green Live to talk actionable steps for electrification in buildings.
April 21, 2023
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
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
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.
February 15, 2023
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.
December 14, 2022
Exploring equitable electrification
Urban Green's Chris Halfnight, Danielle Manley and Adam Schiabor sat down to discuss our latest analysis on equitable electrification in NYC.
December 7, 2022