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Ahhhh, the great Ed Begley, Jr!  Ed joins me on Awesome Vegans to give us a private tour of his Platinum LEED Certified house!  From the thickness of the walls to the refurbished floors and from the room specific heat thermostats to the solar panel heated pool with a the hidden underground tank to catch rain water, Ed has done everything to make sure his house is as green and eco-friendly as possible. 

It's not just on the set of film and TV that Ed stays busy. He explains that he loves to garden and cook...so after the house tour we share some tomato soup and talk cleaning products, appliances and his secret about working with director Christopher Guest! 

Join me for this special episode of Awesome Vegans in which you will not only get to know this kind and creative soul, but you will learn how to keep your gas bill to about $30 month! 

For more information go to ElysabethAlfano.com and EdBegley.com 

Episode 7 features Alan Scott, Senior Associate at WSP. Alan is one of the first LEED certified architects in the nation, he also consults on green build projects throughout North and South America.

How can we make the buildings in which we live, work and play more sustainable?

With over 410 MILLION square feet of commercial building space and 960 member organizations, 2030 Districts are rapidly emerging as a new model for urban sustainability. 2030 districts are unique private/public partnerships committed to reducing energy use, water consumption, and transportation emissions. The 2030 District model provides measurable goals for improving building performance and enhancing resiliency as much as 50% reductions by the year 2030, with new construction reaching carbon neutrality by 2030.

On this Episode of City Rising, we take a deep dive into one of the first cities onboard since 2013, Pittsburgh with guest Angelica Ciranni, the Pittsburgh 2030 District Senior Director at Green Building Alliance.

Tune into this episode to learn:

• What is a 2030 district?
• What Pittsburgh 2030 District has learned in the past 5 years.
• Who are the key stakeholders of the Pittsburgh 2030 District challenge
• LEED-certified: What does that seal on buildings actually mean?
• "Pittsburgh not Paris"? What does Pittsburgh think about that?
• Make My trip Count: How Pittsburgh designed a survey for its residents to find out about transportation
• How are cities working together in 2030 districts? How Pittsburgh learned from other cities.
• How YOUR city can become a 2030 district.
• Steps to reduce your carbon footprint by looking at your utility bill

This is episode 1 of the 2030 districts: stay tuned for part two of the series during episode 4, with Alex Dews of Green Building United in Philadelphia.

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**About Angelica Ciranni **

Angelica Ciranni is the Senior Director of the Pittsburgh 2030 District, an initiative of Green Building Alliance. The Pittsburgh 2030 District is a voluntary community of more than 500 buildings in Pittsburgh committed to aggressive goals of 50% reductions in energy consumption, water use, and transportation emissions by the year 2030, while improving indoor air quality. Angelica has worked in a variety of capacities within the green building industry, with a focus on existing buildings, at both PNC Bank and the Sports & Exhibition Authority. Angelica holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, with a concentration in Construction Management and Sustainability. She is a LEED AP O+M, a Certified Energy Manager, a GPRO instructor, and was recognized by GreenBiz’s 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

Additional resources from today's episode:

Pittsburgh 2030 District on LinkedIn

Is God Green? Sustainability & Religion - Green Philly, 2013

Season One of City Rising is supported by the Climate & Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP). Visit cuspproject.org for more info.

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On today’s episode, Kath Williams is the president of Kath Williams and Associates. Kath Williams and Associates is a collaborative of creative independent contractors who come together to support innovative projects worldwide. Their goal is to change the way buildings are designed, built and operated through aggressive learning and continuous improvement.

Kath has a doctorate in education focused in conflict resolution and adult and higher education from Montana State University. She loves her job because she gets to work with amazing people on green building projects all over the world. She spends much of her time flying and traveling.

Kath is not a designer; her and her team help and support creative designers on architecture, engineering and construction side. Learn more about Kath, Kath Williams and Associates and LEED in this episode.

Key Topics

• What LEED is
• What does LEED stand for
• How LEED is related to US building counsel
• Type of projects that can be LEED projects
• Basis for LEED originally
• Why should a project assume LEED status
• Differentiating LEED projects and buildings
• LEED for healthcare, the most rigorous of LEED standards
• LEED for schools, opportunity and focus for acoustics
• Looking more holistically through LEED
• Processes of getting LEED status
• The future of LEED

Check Out:

Kathwilliams.com

www.jmengineering.net

Social media: @jm_engineering

www.howgreatbuildingswork.com

Tell us what you think - Leave us your thoughts in the comments.

Today, I’m sharing my interview with Natalie Narotzky, Program and Communications Manager for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN). 

From their website: "The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) is a peer-to-peer network of local government professionals from communities across the United States and Canada dedicated to creating a healthier environment, economic prosperity, and increased social equity. Our dynamic network enables sustainability directors and staff to share best practices and accelerate the application of good ideas across North America."

I met Natalie a few years ago through our local 350 Massachusetts climate action group where we spent a good deal of time together serving in leadership roles. Natalie put her impressive skills and abundant energy immediately to work, enabling us to achieve far more than we ever could have without her help. I am proud to continue to work with her on important climate initiatives here in western Massachusetts, and to call her my friend.

Mature and accomplished beyond her years (she's not yet 30!), Natalie exemplifies the kind of young person who is highly motivated to make real change in our society in answer to the greatest challenges of our times. To live sustainably on the earth is no fad – it is an imperative, and one that we can no longer ignore. Natalie understands the urgency of this work, and rises to the occasion, and then some. 

Thank you Natalie!
It was a fun interview and a pleasure to learn more about your work!

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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:

LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:

Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) website

Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) website

USDN’s Urban Sustainability Bulletin

The Guide to Greening Cities by Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Steven S. Nicholas, and Julia Parzen. Available at Island Press.

LEED sustainability and green building education at U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) website

As Sustainability Lead at KYA Design Group, Ian Tierney is working to change the way Hawaii develops by incorporating sustainability principles into projects and actively volunteering on the USGBC Hawaii Market Leadership Advisory Board. Ian has worked on numerous sustainability projects across Hawaii including the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Sustainable Management Plan, the University of Hawaii West Oahu Admin and Allied Health Facility, and the Kamehameha Schools Sustainability Benchmarking Initiative.

Ian Tierney Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss:

• Energy benchmarking in buildings
• Managing and selling LEED certification projects
• Sustainability initiatives throughout Hawaii
• Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders

Ian's Final Five Responses:

What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers?

I would say look into Mark Jewel. He is a best selling author and his classes on selling energy efficiency really taught me a lot about why people buy specifically into ideas and energy efficiency projects. And he provided me with the tools to do financial analysis and business acumen to communicate to business people in the c-suite. And then he also provides support and blog posts daily to keep my saw sharpen.

What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability?

I'm probably most excited to be living in Hawaii in this time with all the sustainability goals that the government has set and also seeing it carry over into the big industries here, tourism, construction, military. The goal for 100 percent clean energy by 2045, it's bringing a lot of investment to the state infrastructure and then the Rockefeller Foundation funded the Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency and it's really off to a great start in it's first year, and I just went to a presentation by them the other day and they're collecting so much good information to really inform decision makers about what the public thinks should be the number one and number two and number three priorities to address climate change, sustainability and resiliency. And I don't think anyone's really done that in the way that they have. So that's what I'm super stoked on right now.

What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read?

I think Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. I recently read it and it kind of flipped the way that I think. It's very easy to think that it's all doom and gloom and sea-level rise and blah blah, blah and the negative thoughts are very easy to creep in when you're working in sustainability. But Abundance is all about the technologies that are on the way and poised for exponential growth, and for the costs to come down. I'd really appreciate it if everyone read that book because I think it would change the outlook that people have on the future of the world.

What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in the work that you do?

For me it's been networking. So I believe that your network is your net worth. I don't know where I heard that from, but to joining associations like the US Green Building Council Hawaii, the AIA Boma, the University of Hawaii Alumni Network has really allowed me to make connections with people inside and outside of my industry, and that's really helped elevate me to achieve what I previously thought I couldn't achieve.

Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work that you are leading at KYA?

We're pretty humble. We don't really like to talk too much about what we do. We kind of just like to do and then people can obviously find out on our website if they want to. You can check me out on Linkedin. Just check out what the US Green Building Council Hawaii chapter is doing. I am on the board of directors for that. I think that's probably more exciting for me is the kind of movement that I'm a part of, not necessarily my own individual or company achievements.

Katie Cline never saw herself as an entrepreneur. But when the real estate bubble burst, right after she finished her MBA, she learned from personal experience how to spot a need and fill it. And she learned how to live out her values with each new successful venture. She began her career at Lockheed Martin Aerospace in communications and business development, and then in project management overseeing $15-million projects. An embryo donor, she co-created Prebornkids.com, matching donors to adoptive parents.

Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 44

Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden & Dr. Craig Spodak

Reposted from: Thriving Dentist Podcast Show w/Gary Takacs

Key Takeaways:

There are many different models of success in dentistry. In this Thriving Dentist Show, Gary interviews Dr. Craig Spodak about his practice model. Craig’s model is a single location group practice that produces over $10M per year driven by a Noble Cause. In this episode they discuss:

• Craig’s experience as a 3rd generation dentist
• His vision of an ideal building which is LEED (Leadership in Energy Environmental Design) Gold Certified
• The importance of creating a ‘Noble Cause’
• Craig’s 14 Core Values in his practice
• The power of intention, and the importance of learning from mistakes
• Craig’s model of a single location vs. building a group of multiple locations
• How Craig discovered that he was paying excessively high fees in his pension plan
• The influence of Tony Robbins on Craig’s life
• The meaning of ‘Geek Chic’

References

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It’s the final episode of America Adapts for 2017! In this edition, Doug highlights the first six months of the podcast and thanks his many supporters and listeners.  The podcast features Dan Ackerstein (from Ackerstein Sustainability) and regular contributor,  Tim Watkins.  Tim, Doug and Dan list their top 5 climate change stories of the year. It’s been a very eventful year for climate change and America Adapts discusses with humor and urgency. 

The conversation takes an unusual turn for the podcast:  America Adapts goes to the Movies! Dan and Doug discuss how climate change has been portrayed in Hollywood, using 4 examples, and identifying the likelihood of the stories and the soundness of the science within the movies. It’s a funny, informative conversation to close out the year. 

Additional Show notes:

Movies quotes from the podcast can be found here and here.

Dan Ackerstein is a founding member of the The BIT Building Program, which provides structure, peer support, expert guidance, and public recognition for buildings working to reduce their operational impacts on the environment.

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Today's guest is Charlie Cichetti, entrepreneur, and CEO of 2 companies in the sustainability consulting industry.

In today's episode you'll discover valuable lessons in scaling and growing a business, as well as the latest information on the new LEED building standard, and some predictions about the future of the sustainable building rating movement.

In BAM Episode 009, I answer a question from a BAM subscriber around how to implement green rating programs.

In today's episode we will cover:

What a green rating program is

The difference between Energy Star, Green Globes and LEED

How to implement Energy Star, Green Globes and LEED

How to use energy star to set a energy baseline

How to use your energy baseline and target to create efficiency projects

Americans love their SUV’s and the number of electric vehicles on the road is still only a small percentage of all vehicles. Transportation is one of the top energy users on the planet and car manufacturers respond to what we buy – not what we say.

Anna Schneider, Vice President of Industry-Government Relations at Volkswagen of America shares with host Joan Michelson the auto industry’s challenges and what VW is doing to reduce its footprint - and ours.

For example, they have the only Platinum LEED-certified manufacturing plant - anywhere, in any industry.

How have regulations affected the growth of the electric car market? What is the impact of low gas prices on car buying? Manufacturers?

Listen to this intriguing interview with an expert who has spent her entire career in the auto industry. (Note: This interview was recorded just before the story broke about the EPA tests of their clean diesel vehicles, so it is not addressed.)

Judith Webb is executive vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit that advocates for healthier, more sustainable buildings and communities. Throughout her 40-year career, she has been a sought-after strategic thinker in marketing and public policy strategies for organizations and the executive teams that drive them. Her portfolio of experience includes corporate, non-profit and four agency engagements, specializing in helping companies become fluent in the new grammar of higher value benefits sustainability, human health and employee engagement.

On Monday's episode we spoke with Erin Ongena, Associate Vice President and Marketing Manager for CallisonRTKL's Commercial Practice Group, about how to empower, engage, and motivate your decentralized marketing team. Today we catch back up with Erin to discuss the role relationships have played in her career, working at a global scale, and what's in store for her team in 2016.

00:00:00 - We're doing something a little different this week. Now that Charlie is an Assistant Professor he can assign things to students, and it turns out he assigned them a podcast about energy in Washington state. The topics are all across the board, everything from wind energy, solar power, LEED certification, salmon spawning, and more!

01:01:51 - Ben laments being at work while his home fridge is chock-full of strange juices. Charlie has kombucha which throws everyone for a loop and leads to a discussion of disgust (as informed by the book That's Disgusting). Ryan has some green tea because you have to take care of yourself, and some Eau de Brau, a white whiskey distilled in DC from DC beer. Ben thinks that also sounds disgusting. You be the judge!

01:16:33 - Round two of Charlie's students. Enjoy!

02:05:24 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like assignments, you can maybe get away with not doing them, but I wouldn't risk it. Ryan begins with a donation from Gordon Br., who wanted some advice on podcasting and was willing to pay for it (unnecessary, but very generous and appreciated).  Charlie asked for voicemails, and we have a drunken doozy from Jason in LA. Thanks for the laughs, Jason! And finally Ben has an e-mail from superman Morgan Marshall who watched a Shia LeBouf movie (on purpose) and now wants to know about our progress making fusion power a reality (instead of just a thing Iron Man has in his chest).

Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!

Music for this week's show:

Energy - Apples in Stereo

Disgusting - Miranda Cosgrove

The Energy - Aceyalone