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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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Cash to Go Electric, Rice Husk Homes, and 97 Zero-Energy Senior Homes

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: What does housing really cost—and what value does it deliver? We look at the affordability gap, California’s gas-line-to-electric incentive, heat pumps holding market share after federal tax credits ended, and building products made from rice husks. Plus, a major HERS milestone, resilient senior living, modular mass timber, and more. This week’s stories: ENR’s 2026 green design and contracting report COGNITION Smart Data’s affordability report California’s Home Energy Choice Act Trane’s 20 TruComfort Cold Climate Heat Pump Heat pumps hold ground after federal incentives expire EnergyLogic reaches 100,000 HERS-rated homes RoseVilla’s 97-home zero-energy expansion Free Green Building Exam Prep podcast for LEED candidates Rice husks become building products Sara Gutterman talks value per square foot with Alair Homes CEO Rob Cecil Hacienda CDC’s modular mass-timber housing program 👍 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
Oct 7

CA Overrides Local Zoning, Mass Timber Moves Into Housing, Energy Tax Credits End

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Mass timber moves into affordable housing, New York City tests new ways to electrify older buildings, and California pushes the limits of local housing control. Plus, disappearing energy tax credits, private listings and affordability, new resilience data, and our Editor’s Product Pick. Mass timber moves into affordable multifamily housing: A new 150-home development tests whether mass timber can become a practical way to build everyday housing at scale.NYCHA tests new technology for electrifying older buildings: Window heat pumps, triple-pane windows and even a 120-volt induction stove are part of the experiment.California’s Builder’s Remedy takes center stage: A controversial Menlo Park development tests just how much control cities can lose when housing plans fall out of compliance.California pushes for more housing: More than 30 new housing bills target regulatory barriers, starter homes, factory-built housing and major redevelopment projects.Could private listings make housing affordability worse? Closed listing networks raise questions about transparency, competition and whether buyers can see all the homes actually available.Federal energy tax credits disappear: Thousands of dollars in incentives for efficiency, heat pumps, solar, batteries and high-performance homes are gone.Resilience becomes a homebuying priority: New COGNITION Smart Data shows how experiencing extreme weather changes what consumers value and what they're willing to pay for.Editor’s Product Pick: Duravit’s Ocavo bathroom collection combines solid European oak, certified sourcing and long-lasting design.The Value Vault: See how housing leaders are putting Value Per Square Foot into practice.👍 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
Oct 6

Pricing the Fire Age

In this solo episode of The Valuation Metric, Sara Gutterman examines what the emerging “fire age” means for the way we value homes, communities, and climate risk. As wildfires intensify, insurers retreat, premiums rise, and traditional models built on historical precedent begin to break down. Resilience is becoming an economic issue as much as an environmental one. From prescribed fire and clean energy investment to wildfire-hardened homes and new community-scale resilience standards, Sara explores why the market is already repricing risk—and why housing needs a valuation system that recognizes what a home protects, not just what it costs per square foot.
Sep 30

Could Wildfire Risk Hurt Your Mortgage—or Get You a Better Deal?

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Wildfire risk is beginning to show up in unexpected places in the housing market. This week, we look at how lenders are responding, a battle over building in a California wildfire zone, GM’s move into home energy, new approaches to decarbonization and indoor air quality, and more. Wildfire risk could make a traditional mortgage harder and more expensive to get, while some online lenders appear to be doing the opposite.“Big Short” investor Michael Burry is suing to stop a 25-home development in a California wildfire zone, citing evacuation risks.GM Energy and PG&E are bringing EV charging, smart charging incentives and the potential for vehicle-to-home power into the car-buying process.Green Builder Coalition’s Mike Collignon examines DOE’s new approach to the 2024 IECC and what it could mean for trust in federal energy-code analysis.USGBC releases new tools designed to help owners decarbonize existing buildings and entire real estate portfolios.Could plants become part of a building’s mechanical system? Yale researchers are exploring “metabolic architecture” for indoor air quality.A new project gallery shows how continuous-insulation EIFS assemblies are being used across more than 200 real-world buildings.On The Valuation Metric, Sara Gutterman and Alair Homes CEO and President Rob Cecil explore why the true value of a home starts long before construction.Gen Z may be rediscovering the “cold room” as bedrooms shift back toward one primary purpose: better sleep.Editor’s Product Pick: Kwikset Signature Series door hardware shows how durability and longer product life can contribute to a more sustainable home.And Green Builder Media’s new COGNITION Smart Data report examines housing affordability through the lens of full cost, not just first cost. 👍 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
Sep 23

Promised Land? Renewed Interest in the Resilient Belt

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Could the Midwest become America’s next housing hot spot? This week, we look at the emerging “Resilience Belt”—plus, a major shift in where U.S. investment is flowing, surprising insurance data, wildfire-ready homes, new energy technology, construction exoskeletons, and more. Could affordable, lower-risk Midwest metros become America’s next “Resilience Belt”? Lincoln, Neb., earns LEED Platinum certification, putting it among a small group of U.S. cities reaching the highest level. Investment in information-processing equipment has now surpassed residential investment for the first time. New research finds homeowners insurance stress can actually be greater closer to downtown than farther out. Could a small plug-in battery bring home energy storage to renters and people without rooftop solar? A dramatic Colorado fire demonstration shows what happens when one home is built for wildfire and another isn’t. COGNITION Smart Data finds interest in all-electric homes has more than doubled in just one year. On The Impact Series, Mike Collignon and Valerie Miller examine what the AI data center boom means for communities, infrastructure, water, energy, and long-term planning. Texas A&M researchers find construction exoskeletons may reduce fatigue while helping workers recognize jobsite hazards. And in Washington state, one woman is connecting two unlikely tools for building stronger communities: women’s soccer and hempcrete homes. 👍 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
Sep 22

The Value of Enough

Sara Gutterman talks with architect Bill Ramsey about how thoughtful design can create more value even as homes get smaller and affordability pressures intensify. From flexible floor plans and natural light to shared outdoor spaces, resilient construction, placemaking, and missing-middle housing, this conversation explores why good design is not simply about taking things away until the numbers work. It is about giving something back, and creating homes and communities that live better, last longer, and deliver more value than price per square foot can measure.
Sep 16

Airbnb Bets $250M on Housing, “Let America Build” Goes National, & Robots Take on Construction

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Housing takes center stage this week as Airbnb makes a $250 million bet on getting more homes built, a national coalition pushes communities to “Let America Build,” and local housing battles show just how complicated increasing supply can be. Plus, construction automation, free technical help for builders, COGNITION Smart Data, climate and insurance risk, plastic-free paint, tree rights, and a new era for geothermal. • Airbnb bets $250 million on housing: Its new Housing Accelerator targets stalled affordable and mixed-income projects while investing in housing innovation. • “Let America Build” goes national: Fourteen housing and real estate organizations are pushing for zoning, permitting, and regulatory reforms to increase housing supply. • Austin ties density to affordability: Larger projects near future light rail stations will have to include affordable housing on site. • D.R. Horton pulls a major Virginia development: The builder withdrew a proposed 770-home project following months of community opposition. • Can robots help solve construction’s labor shortage? Automation is promising less rework, faster construction, and greater factory-built efficiency. • DOE offers builders free technical help: A new program connects builders with experts to tackle costs, materials, factory optimization, AI, and other construction challenges. • COGNITION Smart Data launches: Green Builder Media’s new platform reveals what homebuyers want and where housing and building-product opportunities are forming. • What’s behind the walls matters: Sara Gutterman and DuPont’s Alan Hubbell explore durability, building science, and the shift from price per square foot to value per square foot. • Extreme heat becomes a housing and insurance problem: Climate risk is increasingly affecting insurance availability and home values. • Editor’s Product Pick — Paint Zero: A dry, plastic-free interior paint eliminates conventional acrylic and vinyl binders and dramatically reduces shipping weight. • Should trees have rights? Lewes, England, is putting a new twist on the debate over housing development versus protecting nature. • Could fracking technology unlock geothermal? Bloomberg Originals looks at how enhanced geothermal and deeper drilling could expand access to clean, around-the-clock power. 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
Sep 15

Custom Homes, Common Values

Sara Gutterman talks with Rob Cecil, CEO and President of Alair Homes, about why the true value of a home begins long before construction starts. From custom homes as one-of-a-kind prototypes to wellness architecture, climate resilience, lifestyle alignment, and the power of intentional planning, this conversation explores how builders can move beyond price per square foot and design homes around the people who will actually live in them. Together, they unpack what it means to create homes that support health, comfort, connection, long-term value, and a better way of living.

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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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