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Navigating the Inflation Reduction Act
Hear from Bright Power's Ion Simonides about how the IRA advances multi-family building electrification and clean energy upgrades.
October 29, 2024
A climate conversation with Gina McCarthy
The first White House National Climate Advisor, Gina McCarthy, shares lessons learned from climate advocacy.
October 9, 2024
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
Unearthing geothermal energy
Brightcore's Jonathan Hernandez joins Urban Green's Ellen Honigstock to discuss geothermal energy.
April 10, 2024
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
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
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
Workforce solutions for decarbonizing buildings
Manny Pastreich, President of 32BJ SEIU, joins John Mandyck 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
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