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Co-hosts Ian and Ginger spread the word that utilizing sustainable, green-building principles in construction, design, and urban development is not just morally and environmentally good, but also good business! New methods, materials and technologies to bring down costs and increase productivity are already here, creating a huge opportunity for anyone savvy enough to invest in venturing beyond the current status quo. We at Sustainable Homes of the Future are excited to dive into the details of the green-building "boom" and share our sustainability conversations and interviews with listeners here in Los Angeles and across the globe.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Kicking off Season 2 with Amber Richane, Senior Design Manager for the City of Santa Monica and the now-complete City Hall East - recently dubbed the "greenest" building in the world!!!
We discuss the ins and outs of designing and building the first municipal "Living Building" in Southern California, including on-site water & energy systems, how to make a building "breathe", edible landscape design, and a deep dive into how sanitary foam-flush toilets can be!
Episode Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
About Amber:
Amber is a Senior Design Manager for the City of Santa Monica in the Architecture Services division of Public Works. She has over 20 years of experience in sustainability, wellness, and deep green projects. Currently she is the Project Manager for the City Services Building in Santa Monica that is seeking full Living Building Challenge certification with construction completed in April of this year. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and empowering women in the green building industry to reach new heights as well as designing and creating spaces that are beautiful and biophilic.
Show Notes:
Virtual Tour of SaMo City Hall East - https://youtu.be/W2Fvnyu6_PY
International Living Future Institute - https://living-future.org/
Urban Land Institute - https://uli.org/
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Fact: Reducing Embodied Carbon in our buildings and building products is the number one way we can stop climate change in its tracks! First we need to know what it is and how it's been contributing to the rapid environmental degradation of our People & Planet. Then we can work together (quickly!) to turn things around.
Did you know? The average residential solar panel takes a full year to offset the amount of carbon emitted during its production.
About Ian:
As the Managing Director of Development at Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ian has had the opportunity to break new creative and technical ground and learn the necessary skills to manage each project with an integrative, design-centered approach. He has an extensive creative background from a decade of working in marketing, communications, sales and the not-for-profit space, and loves bringing passion and collaborative expertise to the sustainable building landscape.
Season Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
From Triple Bottom-Line Accounting to Human-centered and nature-inspired (biophilic) principles in design to Indoor Air Quality and Embodied Carbon, this Season Finale is a look back at all we've learned and a look forward at where the built environment is headed when it comes to prioritizing Sustainable solutions to environmental and social justice.
We (still) strongly believe that collaboration is the key to inspiring future innovation in the Design/Build space. Join the conversation today!
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/VZ6qXsByD_4
About Ian:
As the Managing Director of Development at Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ian has had the opportunity to break new creative and technical ground and learn the necessary skills to manage each project with an integrative, design-centered approach. He has an extensive creative background from a decade of working in marketing, communications, sales and the not-for-profit space, and loves bringing passion and collaborative expertise to the sustainable building landscape.
Season Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tune in as Brett Little and I talk innovations in building science, electric heat pump retrofits, building certification programs, and how to be a "sustainability ninja" when it comes to proving cost savings. We also discuss IAQ (indoor air quality) and how we've had the answers for stopping viruses, VOCs, and indoor contaminants for many years...perhaps now the world will choose to listen!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SyNonxPcxMM
Episode Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
About Brett:
Brett Lives with his wife and son in Grand Rapids MI in a GreenStar Bronze Certified remodeled home that is 90 years old. He is passionate about sustainable business and helping people make their lives more sustainable. He has been a volunteer with GHI since 2008 prior to becoming the executive director. He is a Home Energy Magazine entrepreneur 30 under 30 recipient and loves to Kayak and drink craft beer when not greening homes. Credentials: LEED APH, LFA and GHP
Show Notes:
GreenHome Institute - https://greenhomeinstitute.org/
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
How do you design a sustainable single-family home for a luxury market? Just bump into a sustainable architect at your local Starbucks! Listen in as Drew Pedrick, Ginger Matthews, and I delve into project specs on energy modeling, passive heating/cooling, triple-pane windows, greywater recycling, rain screen technology, home automation, stone selection, carbon and more!
About Ginger:
As CEO and founder of Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ginger's goal is to produce the finest examples of innovative sustainable architecture combined with the most futuristic engineering and construction standards to produce a truly Sustainable Home of the Future. With our Podcasts and YouTube Channel’s instructional materials, we are dedicated to inspiring current and future builders to design and construct in a way that is sustainable for our planet. Ginger has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and has worked in the Real Estate and Technology fields for over 15 years.
About Ian:
As the Managing Director of Development at Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ian has had the opportunity to break new creative and technical ground and learn the necessary skills to manage each project with an integrative, design-centered approach. He has an extensive creative background from a decade of working in marketing, communications, sales and the not-for-profit space, and loves bringing passion and collaborative expertise to the sustainable building landscape.
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
From visiting Earthships in New Mexico to watching marble blasts in Italy, Aly and I take a virtual trek across the globe to talk about the health of the materials we choose to use in our buildings. We also discuss the importance of educating clients, lawmakers, and others in the industry about healthier and more sustainable practices so we can pass a thriving planet on to the next generation of humans!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pzjD-ZTfP7A
Episode Sponsor - www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host - info@shfbuild.com
Aly Daly (www.alydaly.com) is an American Interior designer who founded her own firm in 2004 based in Los Angeles, CA. For over 20 years, Daly has been designing and creating residential and commercial environments worldwide for TV personalities, models, musicians, high-level executives and fashion designers such as Herve Leger, BCBG MAXAZRIA, Calvin Klein Inc., Gianni Versace, Perry Ellis and more. Her most notable project has been the total redesign of the 30,000 square-foot estate of Max and Lubov Azria, which has been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor and many more publications worldwide. Additionally, she was profiled in Design Bureau magazine’s special edition publication “Inspiring Interiors” featuring a “collection of the best interior design around the world.”
Daly, who grew up in Litchfield County, finds inspiration at every turn, through nature, travel, architecture and the ability of seeing the wonder of the world through her son’s eyes.
With a fine art painter as a mother, and later becoming a student at The University of the Arts, most of Daly’s life was centered around the power of art. Still, she initially chose a slightly different route when it came to her career.
Daly was a professional ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet before deciding to pursue a life of design.
Daly credits her decision in switching careers to the gratifying process of evoking emotion within a space through artistic creation, curating environments full of beauty and wonder, and the challenge of making something magnificent out of nothing special.
Show Notes:
Earthship Homes - www.earthshipglobal.com
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Basically a primer on the different certification options out there, we use this episode to discuss the history, how-to, and pros/cons of our Top 5 programs (in no particular order): LEED, EnergyStar, PassiveHaus, Living Building Challenge, and WELL.
Hint: It should be no surprise that a good project team and integrated approach to design yield the best results no matter which program you choose!!!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hTaW6tmRCaE
Season Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
About Ginger:
As CEO and founder of Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ginger's goal is to produce the finest examples of innovative sustainable architecture combined with the most futuristic engineering and construction standards to produce a truly Sustainable Home of the Future. With our Podcasts and YouTube Channel’s instructional materials, we are dedicated to inspiring current and future builders to design and construct in a way that is sustainable for our planet. Ginger has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and has worked in the Real Estate and Technology fields for over 15 years.
About Ian:
As the Managing Director of Development at Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ian has had the opportunity to break new creative and technical ground and learn the necessary skills to manage each project with an integrative, design-centered approach. He has an extensive creative background from a decade of working in marketing, communications, sales and the not-for-profit space, and loves bringing passion and collaborative expertise to the sustainable building landscape.
Show Notes:
LEED - https://www.usgbc.org/leed
EnergyStar - https://www.energystar.gov/
Passive House US - https://www.phius.org/home-page
Living Building Challenge - https://living-future.org/lbc/
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
"Citizen-architect" Angie Brooks (FAIA) joins the podcast to discuss the importance of beauty and equity in our pursuit of sustainability. She recounts the high honor of receiving an award from Michelle Obama, talks about gender diversity in architecture, and explains why we need federal leadership here in the US to create a smartgrid rather than the "stupidgrid" we have today!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k1Ieup4ajy0
Episode Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
Angela Brooks, FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C, ENV SP
Principal, Brooks + Scarpa
Angela Brooks is a recognized leader in the field of environmental and social-equity design and is responsible for firm development in the area of housing and policy, leading the firm’s sustainable initiatives and overall design staff management.
Angela believes that it is not enough to create great buildings and has worked to create complete neighborhoods- she co-founded a non-profit called Livable Places to promote good policy, density and livable communities, lectures extensively on these topics and was 2018 Chair of the National AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE), developing programs and advocating for policy changes at the Federal level-promoting design that achieves high levels of performance.
Ms. Brook’s firm BROOKS + SCARPA has received over fifty major design awards including five AIA COTE “Top Ten Green Building” Awards. In 2009 Ms. Brooks received the National American Institute of Architects Young Architects Award. In 2010, Angela’s firm was awarded the National and State Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects and she received the USA Network “Character Approved” Award for her innovative work in the field of architecture. In 2014, her firm was awarded the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture.
Show Notes:
DSIRE (Database for State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency) - www.dsireusa.org
NEST Toolkit - https://brooksscarpa.com/the-nest-toolkit
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) matters quite a bit for encouraging productivity, ecological sustainability, and human health. How do we get there? By focusing design efforts not only on the materials inside our buildings but the materials that we actually use to build! We highlight design tools and processes that can help us build with healthier materials, better manufacturing, and a lighter carbon footprint.
Season Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
Show Notes:
Red List - https://living-future.org/declare/declare-about/red-list/
Mindful Materials - http://www.mindfulmaterials.com/
About Ginger:
As CEO and founder of Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ginger's goal is to produce the finest examples of innovative sustainable architecture combined with the most futuristic engineering and construction standards to produce a truly Sustainable Home of the Future. With our Podcasts and YouTube Channel’s instructional materials, we are dedicated to inspiring current and future builders to design and construct in a way that is sustainable for our planet. Ginger has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and has worked in the Real Estate and Technology fields for over 15 years.
About Ian:
As the Managing Director of Development at Sustainable Homes of the Future, Ian has had the opportunity to break new creative and technical ground and learn the necessary skills to manage each project with an integrative, design-centered approach. He has an extensive creative background from a decade of working in marketing, communications, sales and the not-for-profit space, and loves bringing passion and collaborative expertise to the sustainable building landscape.
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Josh is an Energy Service Technician for a federal weatherization program making homes safer, healthier, and more comfortable. His work in the energy and weatherization space has helped him focus on efficiency in his own home in addition to his work helping the lower-income population of Buncombe County, NC. Tune in to learn what a blower-door test is and why blown fiberglass insulation may sometimes be a more sustainable option than cellulose!
Episode Sponsor: www.sustainablehomesofthefuture.com
Contact Host: info@shfbuild.com
Show Notes:
Community Action Opportunities - www.communityactionopportunities.org
Weatherization Assistance Program - https://www.energy.gov/eere/wap/weatherization-assistance-program
Blue Horizons Project - https://bluehorizonsproject.com/
PACE - https://www.energy.gov/eere/slsc/property-assessed-clean-energy-programs