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From breaking news and market signals to deep dives on sustainability, value, policy, resilience, and meaning, the Green Builder Media Podcast Network brings together the industry’s most trusted voices to explore how homes are designed, built, valued, and lived in.

6d ago

Mormon Church’s 50,000-Home Dream

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. The Mormon Church emerges as a major housing developer, new data show single-family construction spending falling, windowless bedrooms face a ban, plug-in solar comes to California, and modular housing gets a boost. Plus: mass timber skyscrapers, ADUs, heat pumps, the skilled trades and the real story behind America’s housing shortage. In this episode: U.S. Construction SpendingMormon Church Real Estate DevelopmentWindowless Bedroom Code ChangeCalifornia Plug-In SolarBmore Build ForwardQuality Training Centers Cost CalculatorMass Timber and the Future of CitiesMassachusetts ADUsThe Upgrade That Saves Billions of DollarsThe Housing Shortage Myth — The Valuation MetricRoom & Board Urban Wood ProjectIf you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
Aug 26

Housing’s New Reality: Build It to Survive

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Stronger building codes, wildfire protection, passive survivability, extreme heat, tariffs, manufactured housing, modular construction and 3D-printed homes are reshaping what resilience and affordability mean for housing. In this episode: • Stronger building codes reduce hurricane damage — Homes built under Florida’s stronger code were 22% less likely to suffer wind damage. • Mold lawsuits put building science in the spotlight — Moisture, HVAC, ventilation and air-sealing problems are increasingly ending up in court. • California weakens wildfire Zone Zero rules — New requirements fall short of the five-foot non-combustible zone recommended by researchers and firefighters. • Passive survivability could keep homes habitable longer — Phius co-executive director Lisa White explains how passive buildings perform when power and critical systems fail. • Resiliency is becoming a housing value driver — Download Green Builder Media’s free COGNITION Smart Data report, A Growing Resiliency Economy. • Extreme heat is damaging home foundations — London’s subsidence crisis offers a warning for U.S. regions with expansive clay soils. • Can we cool buildings with less electricity? — Smart windows, shading, reflective roofs, ventilation and radiative cooling could reduce growing AC demand. • U.S.-Canada tariffs threaten construction costs — Renewed trade tensions could raise prices for building materials and housing. • Manufactured housing gets an affordability push — Congress is targeting construction costs, but high-cost financing remains a major obstacle. • Keller Williams makes a move into modular housing — KW Modular will train agents and connect them with modular home manufacturers. • 3D-printed housing gets a real-world test in Colorado — The Cleora development plans more than 65 3D-printed homes as the technology moves toward neighborhood scale. • Editor’s Product Pick: OX ThermoPLY Utility Board AB — A dual-purpose air barrier, draft stop and temporary surface-protection product. If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes, and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
Aug 26

The Impact Series: Valerie Miller

Mike and Valerie talk about AI data centers, water use and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
Aug 19

AI Is Talking About You to Home Buyers

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Housing starts are falling, AI is influencing home-buying decisions, and affordability is changing where Americans are willing to live. In this episode, we break down the biggest stories shaping housing, sustainability, and the built environment. Housing starts fall, but Oregon bucks the trend. Single-family starts dropped nearly 10% in July, while Oregon housing starts jumped 11.3% in the first half of 2026. Is AI influencing your home buyers? One buyer reportedly walked away from a deal after AI estimated $250,000 in repairs that contractors later put at just $17,000 to $19,000. Factory-built housing gets a boost. New federal housing legislation could lower manufactured-home costs and address some of the regulatory and financing barriers preventing modular housing from scaling. Can solar and farming share the same land? Virginia becomes the fourth state to formally define agrivoltaics as electricity demand from data centers soars. Should resilience count when measuring a building’s environmental footprint? New research argues that rebuilding after extreme weather belongs in the sustainability equation. Big builders get bigger, but small builders still matter. Dream Finders is acquiring Beazer Homes for $2.2 billion, while Green Builder Media’s Ron Jones makes the case for local builders as an overlooked resilience resource. Affordability is about more than the mortgage. Redfin is adding childcare costs and availability to home listings as families increasingly evaluate the total cost of living in a community. America’s malls are becoming neighborhoods. Developers are turning former department stores and parking lots into apartments and mixed-use communities. Would you move for a more affordable home? New COGNITION data finds more than 70% of buyers would. What space exploration can teach us about water reuse. Colorado’s adopts water demand calculator. Editors’ Product Pick of the Week: ecobee SmartBuildings. Ventilation webinar If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes, and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network / @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
Aug 18

The Housing Shortage Myth

In this solo episode, Sara challenges the idea that America’s housing crisis is simply a shortage problem. Drawing on Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing report and COGNITION Smart Data affordability research, she explores why the market is both starved and saturated, and why the real crisis lies in a mismatch of price, buyer, product, and place. From shrinking affordability and stalled mobility to growing demand for smaller, more efficient homes, this episode argues that solving the housing crisis requires more than building more. It requires measuring more accurately and valuing homes for what they offer, not just their square footage.
Aug 12

Housing News This Week: AI, ADUs, Wildfire Resilience, and Home Performance

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Can renovating an existing home be more sustainable than building new? How is artificial intelligence changing housing and energy infrastructure? Why is wildfire resilience becoming a priority for every builder—not just those in fire-prone regions? We answer the biggest questions shaping the future of housing, construction, resilience, and sustainable development. In This Episode Why renovating existing homes can dramatically reduce embodied carbon plus tools that help homeowners evaluate ADUs, renovations, zoning, and energy upgrades: Architecture 2030 CARE ToolRMI Green Upgrade CalculatorUnderbuilt RadarBreezyADU AcceleratorENERGY STAR Home UpgradeDOE Home Energy SaverThe growing debate over private home sales and housing affordabilityFive emerging healthy home design trendsWhy one in three new homes now receives a HERS energy ratingHow AI data centers are keeping fossil fuel plants alive and driving new power plant construction https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/climate/data-centers-pollution-trump-ai-energy.htmlhttps://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/how-bad-is-ai-for-the-environment/https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-are-hotbeds-of-health-risksWhat El Niño, wildfire smoke, and climate resilience mean for buildershttps://prospect.org/2026/07/28/climate-change-wildfires-smoke-el-nino-renewable-energy-trump/https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/blog/the-age-of-fire-revisitedhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/the-us-is-having-one-of-its-worst-wildfire-season-in-yearsASHRAE's latest guidance for healthier buildingshttps://store.accuristech.com/ashrae/searches/47710784https://store.accuristech.com/ashrae/standards/ashrae-188-2021?product_id=2229689#fullSara Gutterman's latest article, The Age of Fire, RevisitedYILBY: Could libraries become part of the housing solution?Product of the Week: HIMACS Solid SurfaceBook Recommendation: Homes for Our Time by Philip JodidioIf you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes, and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network https://www.youtube.com/@TheGreenBuilderMediaNetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Upcoming Sustainable Building Events August 31: Fall In Love With Nature Sweepstakes Entries Due September 9–10: Building Fire Safety Symposium September 15-16: U.S. Heat Pump Summit, Worcester, Mass. September 16–18: EEBA Summit 2026 St. Paul, Minn. October 20–23: Greenbuild 2026 New York, NY November 4–5: The Building Products Customer Workshop, Nashville November 18: 2026 Southwest Utility Energy Efficiency Workshop, Santa Fe, N.M. December 9: International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Engineering (ICSAUDE), New York January 28-29: ICGBS 2027: 21. International Conference on Green Building and Sustainability, New York February 2-4: Design & Construction Week 2027 (IBS & KBIS), Las Vegas About Green Builder Media 🌐 Green Builder Media: https://www.greenbuildermedia.com Green Builder Media www.greenbuildermedia.com is North America’s leading green building and sustainable living media company. Through our magazine, website, demonstration homes, and data services, we provide actionable information to consumers and builders about how to build and remodel sustainable homes. We focus on net-zero building, green products, energy efficiency, healthy homes, resilience, connected living, and building science. Subscribe to our weekly Vantage enewsletter: https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/enewsletter-subscribe Follow Green Builder Media: LinkedIn: @green-builder-media-llc Facebook: @greenbuildermedia Bluesky: @greenbuildermedia Threads: @greenbuildermedia Instagram: @greenbuildermedia Tiktok: @greenbuilder
Aug 5

What Else Can AI Gobble Up? The Housing Market.

This Week's Sustainable Building News: Can AI data centers make housing more expensive? This week we examine how America's AI boom is competing with homebuilders for land, labor, and construction materials—and why that could affect housing affordability for years to come. We also explore: Proposed legislation that could reduce homebuilding costs by rolling back tariffs on construction materials.Why the new ICC 1300 seismic retrofit standard is a major step for existing-home resilience.What Florida's insurance reforms could mean for homeowners across the country.Digital twins move from World Cup stadiums to multifamily housing.Adaptive building technology that automatically switches between heating and cooling.New research on the healthy home features consumers value most.Why wellness may become the next luxury-home standard.Our Editor's Product Pick featuring long-lasting roofing designed for solar.How buyers with debt may still qualify for homeownership.A Florida master-planned community redefining conservation and development. Upcoming Sustainable Building Events September 9–10: Building Fire Safety Symposium (Virtual) September 15-16: U.S. Heat Pump Summit, Worcester, Mass.September 16–18: EEBA Summit 2026, St. Paul, Minn.October 20–23: Greenbuild 2026, New York, NY.October 28–29: Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Engineering Conference, Los AngelesNovember 2-3: International Conference on Sustainable Interior Design ICSID, San FranciscoNovember 4–5: The Building Products Customer Workshop, NashvilleNovember 18: 2026 Southwest Utility Energy Efficiency Workshop, Santa Fe, N.M.November 18–20: 1st International Online Conference on Sustainable Construction (GO BUILD 2026) (Virtual)December 9: International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Engineering (ICSAUDE), New YorkJanuary 28-29: ICGBS 2027: 21. International Conference on Green Building and Sustainability, New York February 2-4: Design & Construction Week 2027 (IBS & KBIS), Las Vegas About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media www.greenbuildermedia.com is North America’s leading green building and sustainable living media company. Through our magazine, website, demonstration homes, and data services, we provide actionable information to consumers and builders about how to build and remodel sustainable homes. We focus on net-zero building, green products, energy efficiency, healthy homes, resilience, connected living, and building science. Subscribe to our once-a-week Vantage e-newsletter Follow Green Builder Media: LinkedIn: @green-builder-media-llc Facebook: @greenbuildermedia Bluesky: @greenbuildermedia Threads: @greenbuildermedia
Aug 4

What Space Travel Can Teach Us About Earth’s Water Crisis

In this episode of The Impact Series, host Mike Collignon talks with Dr. Sybil Sharvelle of Colorado State University about the future of water in an increasingly dry West—and what we can learn from an unlikely source: space travel. From developing water recycling systems for long-duration space missions to advancing water reuse here on Earth, Sharvelle explores how circular water systems, produced water, decentralized solutions, and more efficient agricultural practices could help communities adapt to growing water constraints. The conversation also dives into the critical water-energy-food nexus, the challenges facing the Colorado River basin, and why using and reusing water locally may be one of the most important strategies for the future. Subscribe to The Impact Series for conversations with the innovators shaping a more sustainable, resilient future. :::

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From breaking news and market signals to deep dives on sustainability, value, policy, resilience, and meaning, the Green Builder Media Podcast Network brings together the industry’s most trusted voices to explore how homes are designed, built, valued, and lived in.

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