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This channel explores affordable, resilient, and sustainable homes through conversations with green building professionals, architects, designers, homeowners, developers, and real estate professionals.
Topics include green building, energy-efficient homes, electrification, climate-resilient housing, and future-ready real estate.
The podcast is for homeowners, buyers, and realtors interested in sustainable real estate, as well as builders and designers working at the intersection of affordability, resilience, and climate-conscious living.
Episodes highlight real-world projects, practical strategies, and lived experiences that make sustainable and eco-friendly homes more accessible and achievable.
Whether you’re a homeowner planning a renovation, a green real estate professional, or simply curious about sustainable housing and regenerative design, this channel offers grounded conversations about how we build, buy, and live in homes that are better for people and the planet.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
34 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
108 episodes
since May 23, 2019
episodic
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In this conversation, Hoa shares her journey of finding and living in a cohousing community, Corvidae Co-op, highlighting the importance of community, sustainability, and the unique living experience it offers. The discussion delves into the motivations behind choosing cohousing, the features of th…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Most home tours happen on move-in day, when everything's shiny and nobody's tested anything yet. This one is different — Bill Spohn and his wife built a net-zero, airtight, modular "Pretty Good House" outside Pittsburgh, and they've lived in it for six years.
So what actually happened? A factory in…
David Gottfried — often called the godfather of the green building movement — co-founded the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993 and the World Green Building Council in 1998. He's the author of four books, including his newest, Regen360, and he joins the show to talk about something more personal t…
Sustainability alone won't protect your home from Mother Nature. In this episode, Izumi Tanaka talks with Albert Slap — environmental attorney turned founder of RiskFootprint.com — about why resilience and sustainability are two sides of the same coin. Albert breaks down why FEMA flood maps miss hu…
What does it actually look like to flip a house the green way — and make the numbers work?
In this episode, Izumi sits down with Mary Love, a North Carolina-based green realtor, building scientist, and project manager who has been doing eco-conscious real estate investment long before "green homes"…
Are homes really built to last… or just built to sell?
In this eye-opening episode, Izumi sits down with documentary filmmaker George Siegal, creator of Built to Last: Buyer Beware, to uncover the uncomfortable truth about how most homes are actually built—and why so many fail when disaster strikes…
In this episode of Home Green Homes, Izumi Tanaka talks with Nick Grimm — a father, homeowner, and sustainability professional who is gradually transforming his 1953 Los Angeles home into a healthier and more energy-efficient space.
Nick didn’t begin with a master sustainability plan. Like many ho…
If you're a homeowner wondering whether it’s time to replace gas appliances with electric alternatives — this episode is for you.
In Episode 102 of Home Green Homes, Izumi chats with Akanksha Mathur, General Manager for Southern California at Elephant Energy, to discuss what it really takes to ele…
What does it really take to build homes that are beautiful, efficient, resilient, and responsible?
In this special 100th episode of Home Green Homes, Izumi Tanaka welcomes Steve Glenn, founder and CEO of Plant Prefab, for an in-depth conversation that weaves together architecture, sustainability, e…
“So when I think about a future that is solving climate, I think about raising our quality of life. I think about more inclusive cities with wonderful parks, and it's a fantastic mass transportation that's really considered a luxury good because whether you're the wealthiest person in that city or …
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