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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?...

Episodes

20 of 459 episodes

From Forest to Future: How Sustainable Wood Can Transform Green Building | Oscar Crespo Pinillos

The Green Impact Report Quick take: Every cubic meter of Garnica plywood locks away about 500 kg of CO2, and the mills behind it run on 100%...

34:48Oct 28, 2026

Turning Ceiling Tiles Into Thermal Batteries: Mick Dunn on the Future of Buildings

The Green Impact Report Quick take: We've spent two decades pulling concrete out of buildings to cut carbon, and quietly lost the thermal ma...

34:13Oct 21, 2026

How Nanotech Materials Can Support Net Zero Buildings with Nathan Kegel

The Green Impact Report Quick take: What if a coating 1 millimeter thick could insulate like a thick layer of conventional material, and you...

31:59Oct 14, 2026

From One Building to the Whole Company: Scaling Sustainability to the Boardroom with Marianna Palmour

The Green Impact Report Quick take: LEED used to be the strategy. Now it's one of maybe 20 tools. Marianna Palmour went from reviewing LEED...

57:06Oct 7, 2026

Keeping Green Building Simple, Efficient, and Ready for What's Next With Dale Garfield

📝 The Green Impact Report Quick take: The future of high-performance buildings isn't necessarily about adding more technology — it's about...

40:44Sep 30, 2026

AI, Energy, and Building a More Sustainable Future with Josh Rainbow

🌎 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when AI adoption runs headfirst into energy constraints? Josh Rainbow sees technology, i...

53:31Sep 23, 2026

Turning Building Data Into Operational Intelligence with Etrit Demaj

💟 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability targets are easy to announce. Making buildings actually perform against them? That's w...

40:20Sep 16, 2026

Building for the Next 100 Years with Timber, Wood Fiber, Already Embedded Carbon with Jonathan Orpin

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: What if the greenest building innovation isn't waiting around the corner — it's already here? New Ener...

36:32Sep 9, 2026

The Father of Green Building Returns: David Gottfried on Regen360 and the Operating System for a Regenerative Earth

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: David Gottfried co-founded USGBC, wrote the first white paper proposing a US rating system, and lit th...

58:21Sep 2, 2026

Special Episode: Skema.ai's Origin Story with Co-Founders Marty Rozmanith + Charlie Cichetti

💚 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Marty Rozmanith spent seven years writing the requirements for Revit — the tool that runs $1.2B a yea...

50:31Aug 26, 2026

Beyond Carbon: Why the Future of Sustainable Materials Requires a Holistic Approach with Annie Bevan

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainable buildings aren't just about reducing carbon anymore. In this episode, Annie Bevan explain...

38:37Aug 19, 2026

Building Communities That Last: Human Flourishing, Waste Audits, & the Future of Sustainability with Brian Bollinger

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability isn't just about reducing carbon or earning certifications — it's about creating place...

01:14:33Aug 12, 2026

Carbon Neutral Concrete Starts with Collaboration: Education, Innovation & Building a More Resilient Future with Kerry Sutton

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick Take: Concrete is responsible for building nearly every community on earth—and it's also one of the biggest...

35:26Aug 5, 2026

Beyond Buildings: Scaling Climate Action Across the Built Environment with Vincent Martinez

💚 The Green Impact Report Quick take: The next chapter of sustainability isn't about making individual buildings slightly better — it's abo...

45:57Jul 29, 2026

Sustainability Is Woven In, Not Handed Out: Making Green Building the Default with Dave Hubka

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Dave Hubka has spent 20+ years turning "up to code" into "why would we settle for that?" — and his app...

30:36Jul 22, 2026

Ken Rhee on Turning BIM Data Into a Living, Breathing Digital Twin

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Only 3% of people on a building project can actually open a BIM file — Ken Rhee is fixing that, and u...

37:08Jul 15, 2026

Leading with Influence: FAIA, LEED Fellow Kirk Teske on Sustainability, Design Leadership, and Protecting What Matters

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: After 42 years at HKS, Kirk Teske reflects on a career that helped shape sustainable design at scale....

37:23Jul 8, 2026

Special Episode: Building Skema.ai - Why AI-Native Building Design Is About to Change Everything with Charlie Cichetti, Robin Bienfait & Jim Grady

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick Take: What happens when a LEED Fellow entrepreneur, a Fortune 500 technology executive (turn investor), and...

48:41Jul 1, 2026

AI, Digital Infrastructure, & the Future of Decarbonization: Anya Eydman on Building Trust in the Energy Transition

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: AI, data centers, and digital infrastructure are transforming the built environment faster than most...

40:00Jun 24, 2026

Designing Schools That Heal, Inspire, and Perform Better: Human-Centered Sustainable Design with Bob Morris

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when sustainability stops being about buzzwords — and starts being about healthier kids,...

28:50Jun 17, 2026