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The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

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Do green buildings matter to you? This podcast fuels your fire with inspiring interviews from industry and nonprofit leaders across the built environment. Not sure if green building matters? Listen to the personal stories of our guests and let Charlie's passion help convince you why green buildings are essential to our shared future. Each episode illustrates a unique journey through sustainability and towards resilience. Charlie explores the challenges and celebrations of the movers and shakers in the green building industry. Hear behind the scene stories from the inner world of green and healthy building design, construction, and management.© 2020 GBES Arte Economía Exito Profesional
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  • Electrification, Microgrids, & the Future of Buildings with Jordan Lerner

    Electrification, Microgrids, & the Future of Buildings with Jordan Lerner
    Apr 8 2026
    ✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Electrification isn't just about swapping out equipment — it's about rethinking how buildings, transportation, and infrastructure work together. In this episode, Schneider Electric's Jordan Lerner shares how microgrids, fleet electrification, and creative funding strategies are transforming schools, cities, and public facilities. 🙋‍♂️ Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Jordan Lerner is a sustainability and energy infrastructure leader at Schneider Electric, where he oversees teams designing and delivering energy efficiency, electrification, and resiliency projects across the western United States. Over his career, Jordan has helped implement more than $1 billion in energy efficiency and sustainability projects, particularly for schools, cities, and public sector buildings. 🌱 Breaking Ground on Better Building In this episode, Jordan Lerner explores how electrification, microgrids, and innovative financing are reshaping sustainable infrastructure. 🧨 Key Insight #1: Electrifying Transportation Infrastructure The Challenge: Traditional school buses run on diesel, producing emissions directly at child breathing height and requiring fossil fuels to operate.The Solution: Deploy electric bus fleets supported by new electrical service infrastructure, including fast-charging stations and grid upgrades coordinated with utilities.ROI: Cleaner air for students, reduced operational costs, and future capabilities like mobile Wi-Fi hubs for communities during emergencies or remote learning. 🧰 Key Insight #2: Microgrids for Community Resilience The Challenge: Wildfires, extreme weather, and utility shutdowns are increasingly causing power outages that disrupt critical services like schools and food storage.The Solution: Deploy microgrid systems integrating solar, battery storage, and backup generators to maintain power during outages.ROI: Facilities can operate independently from the main grid for extended periods — protecting food storage, keeping schools running, and safeguarding community infrastructure. 🎯 Key Insight #3: Funding Sustainability Through Operational Savings The Challenge: Many sustainability projects stall due to limited capital budgets for infrastructure upgrades.The Solution: Energy-based contracting that converts operational savings — like reduced energy costs — into funding streams for capital improvements.ROI: Grants, incentives, and energy savings combine to finance projects that otherwise wouldn't happen, enabling schools and cities to modernize without new tax burdens. 🎙️ Sustainable Soundbite "Electrification isn't just swapping equipment — it can mean redesigning the entire electrical backbone of a building." — Jordan Lerner 🧩 Your Green Building Action Plan Transform your next project with these steps: 1. This Week: Evaluate where energy waste exists in your facility — lighting, HVAC, or electrical distribution are common starting points. 2. This Quarter: Explore electrification opportunities such as EV infrastructure, heat pumps, or renewable integration. 3. This Year: Develop a resilience strategy using microgrids or energy storage to protect operations from outages. 🔗 Connect & Learn More 🌿 Access full episode resources: https://gbes.com/podcast/ 📄 Read the transcript here 👩🏻‍💻 Connect with Jordan Lerner: Website: http://seadvisoryservices.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-lerner-20a6419/ 💚 Join the Green Building Movement: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe ♻️ Want More Green Building Insights? Get sustainability tips 2x a week. 👉 Subscribe to our FREE newsletter here: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe Green Building Matters, Inc © 2026 | Good Green Fun.
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  • Embedding Sustainability Into Core Real Estate Operations with Ethan Arbiser

    Embedding Sustainability Into Core Real Estate Operations with Ethan Arbiser
    Apr 1 2026
    🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: If you need to transform sustainability from an isolated department into a core business driver, this episode delivers the blueprint. Ethan Arbiser shows how to embed sustainability into daily real estate operations using resource optimization, AI, and high-visibility engagement strategies. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Ethan Arbiser is a Senior Manager of Energy & Sustainability at CBRE, bringing a unique blend of environmental science, analytics, carbon accounting, and built-environment project experience. An Atlanta native and two-time Emory University graduate, Ethan's career spans teaching, software-based energy analytics, corporate carbon accounting at Cox Enterprises, and now leading sustainability integration across major real estate portfolios. He focuses on embedding sustainability into core facilities, workplace, engineering, and leasing functions through data, AI, and impactful employee engagement initiatives. 🌱 Breaking Ground on Better Building In this episode, Ethan Arbiser revolutionizes traditional real estate operations with a sustainability-first mindset. 🧠 Key Insight #1: Sustainability Evolves When It Focuses on Resource Optimization The Challenge: Sustainability programs were historically driven by voluntary reporting and altruistic goals, often disconnected from financial priorities.The Solution: Position sustainability as resource optimization — reducing operating costs, lowering risk, and improving efficiency across all real estate functions.ROI: Increased financial savings from smarter utility and operational decision-making, Stronger cross-functional alignment, Triple-bottom-line benefits (people, planet, profit). 🎯 Key Insight #2: AI and Data Intelligence Are Reshaping Real Estate Decision-Making The Challenge: Teams lack accurate forecasting tools and real-time insights to manage energy, utilities, and contracts.The Solution: Deploy advanced AI tools for utility budgeting, forecasting, contract evaluation, and building intelligence — creating razor-sharp accuracy and smarter planning.ROI: Greater confidence for clients facing volatile utility markets, Significant operational savings, Accelerated decarbonization pathways. 🧨 Key Insight #3: Waste Engagement Is the Most Visible Sustainability Lever The Challenge: Employees rarely see or interact with energy or carbon reduction efforts, limiting awareness and cultural adoption.The Solution: Use waste sorting, gamification, and employee engagement technology to make sustainability visible and personal in the workplace.ROI: Higher landfill diversion rates, Stronger culture of sustainability across teams, Low capital investment with immediate behavioral impact. 🎙️ Sustainable Soundbite "Chaos brings opportunity — and sustainability thrives when you embed it into the core functions of real estate." — Ethan Arbiser 🧗‍♂️ Your Green Building Action Plan 1. This Week: Identify one core real estate function (FM, engineering, workplace) where sustainability can plug in immediately. 2. This Quarter: Pilot an AI-assisted workflow to improve forecasting, waste engagement, or energy performance. 3. This Year: Build a cross-functional sustainability roadmap that unites decarbonization, resilience, and workplace experience. 🔗 Connect & Learn More 🌿 Access full episode resources: https://gbes.com/podcast/ 🗒 Read the transcript here 👩🏻‍💻 Connect with Ethan Arbiser: Website: https://www.cbre.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-arbiser/ 💚 Join the Green Building Movement: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe 📌 Want More Green Building Insights? Get sustainability tips 2x a week. 👉 Subscribe free: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe Green Building Matters, Inc © 2026 | Good Green Fun.
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  • Eliminating Drywall Waste & Reimagining Sustainable Interiors with Nick Ndah

    Eliminating Drywall Waste & Reimagining Sustainable Interiors with Nick Ndah
    Mar 25 2026
    📣 The Green Impact Report Quick take: This episode is a masterclass in modern construction sustainability. Nick Ndah breaks down how eliminating waste, rethinking materials, and simplifying project execution can radically improve both environmental impact and long-term building performance. 🙋‍♂️ Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Nick Ndah is a commercial interiors and construction leader with deep experience spanning residential, industrial, and large-scale commercial projects. As head of the Architectural Solutions division at McCoy Rockford, he champions sustainable interior systems — from demountable partitions to adaptable wall and flooring solutions — that dramatically reduce waste and improve long-term building performance. Rooted in a family construction background, Nick brings a practical, resource-first mindset to green building, simplifying complex sustainability concepts for architects, designers, and clients. He also serves on the board of Camp for All, supporting barrier-free outdoor experiences for children and adults with diverse needs. 🌱 Breaking Ground on Better Building In this episode, Nick Ndah revolutionizes traditional construction approaches: 🔍 Key Insight #1: Treat Material Waste as a Financial & Sustainability Failure Point The Challenge: Traditional construction accepts material waste (drywall, timber, paint, surplus materials) as unavoidable — costing money and increasing environmental footprint.The Solution: Nick applies fiscal thinking to sustainability: every unused material is lost value. He pushes for recycling, adaptive reuse, and eliminating waste at the source.ROI: Lower project costs, reduced landfill impact, smarter resource planning, and a cultural shift toward efficiency in construction teams. 🧨 Key Insight #2: Replace Drywall With Modular, Reusable Architectural Solutions The Challenge: Drywall is waste-heavy, inflexible, dust-producing, and difficult to adapt in buildings pursuing LEED, WELL, or modern interior quality goals.The Solution: Nick advocates for demountable partitions, modular glass, specialty paneling, and adaptable interior systems that reduce waste and improve long-term flexibility. His personal mission: "eliminate as much drywall as possible."ROI: Massive waste reduction, better air quality, lower embodied carbon, ease of reconfiguration, and long-term durability that supports green certifications. 🧰 Key Insight #3: Designing Healthy, Adaptable Spaces Requires Simplicity & Education The Challenge: Many project teams understand "green" conceptually but feel overwhelmed by certification requirements, acoustics, air quality, or material health.The Solution: Nick simplifies complexity — educating clients, architects, and contractors so they understand sustainability goals without getting lost in technical layers.ROI: Faster decisions, better alignment across teams, higher-performing interiors, and improved outcomes in acoustic quality, daylighting, and user experience. 🎙️ Sustainable Soundbite "If we get down to a base level of understanding of what we're trying to achieve, productivity turns into real progress." – Nick Ndah 📈 Your Green Building Action Plan Transform your next project with these steps: This Week: Identify one material or process where you can eliminate unnecessary waste — especially heavy offenders like drywall or excess framing.This Quarter: Pilot a modular or demountable system on a project to reduce carbon, dust, and long-term waste.This Year: Build an internal sustainability playbook that simplifies LEED/WELL requirements so every subcontractor knows exactly what to do. 🔗 Connect & Learn More 🌿 Access full episode resources: https://gbes.com/podcast/ 🗒 Read the transcript here 👩🏻‍💻 Connect with Nick Ndah: Website: https://www.mccoyrockford.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-ndah-pmp/ 💚 Join the Green Building Movement: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe ♻️ Want More Green Building Insights? Get sustainability tips 2× a week. 👉 Subscribe to our FREE newsletter: https://www.greenbuilding.news/subscribe Green Building Matters, Inc © 2026 | Good Green Fun.
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