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Design the Future

Lindsay Baker & Kira Gould

Women are living, learning, and leading towards a sustainable future. Their stories can help us all accelerate toward that vision in the built environment. Design the Future is a podcast created to elevate and explore the voices of women driving sustainable practices in the built environment and related fields. Lindsay Baker, a sustainability and social impact leader, and Kira Gould, a writer and communications strategist, host these conversations.

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41:17

Joel Todd on understanding the whole and working...

Design the Future ·

2025/01/09

Joel Todd has been working in the green building field for more than 30 years, most recently as a USGBC Senior Fellow focused on social equity. Her career focused on green building methods and metrics development; she contributed significantly to LEED’s earliest versions and co-founded the LEED Society Equity Working Group (an effort for which she was recognized with USGBC's prestigious Malcolm Lewis Impact Award). She describes how she came to work in this movement and how the people ma...

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35:48

Efrie Escott on research and bringing in more people...

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2024/12/12

Efrie Escott is the Decarbonization Technical Program Leader for Digital Energy at Schneider Electric. As a licensed architect and life cycle assessment practitioner, Efrie’s previous experience in reducing carbon in the built environment was as an environmental researcher within the KieranTimberlake Research Group, where she was a core member of the development team for Tally, an award-winning BIM-integrated life cycle assessment tool.We had a lively conversation with Efrie about research in...

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40:45

Myrrh Caplan on sustainability in construction and...

Design the Future ·

2024/09/19

For our latest podcast, we talked to Myrrh Caplan, who is Senior VP for Sustainability at Skanska and leads the construction company’s national sustainability team. Since joining Skanska as a Project Manager in 2005, Myrrh has helped shape Skanska’s national approach to sustainable building. She established the company’s first national Green Construction program and chaired Skanska’s first National Green Council. Myrrh has advised on nearly 300 certified projects and projects seeking LEE...

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51:15

Mae-ling Lokko on biogenic materials and practices

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2024/09/12

Dr. Mae-ling Lokko is an Assistant Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture and Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA) and the founder of Willow Technologies Ltd., in Accra, Ghana. As an architectural scientist, designer, and educator from Ghana and the Philippines, her work focuses on the design and integration of biogenic material practices across the agricultural, architectural and textile sectors. This year, she joined the board of the International Livi...

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39:37

Lu Salinas on consulting and doing what's right for...

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2024/09/05

Lu Salinas has been working in the green building industry since 2006 -- with firms and on projects in the US, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Mexico, where she works today. Her consulting firm, THREE Environmental Consulting, has worked on everything from small affordable housing projects to large infrastructure projects such as the New International Mexico City Airport in Texcoco. She grew up in Mexico in a family of civil engineers, and happened upon the James Wines book, Sustainable A...

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Cristina Gamboa on quantifying the benefits of a...

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2024/08/15

Cristina Gamboa is CEO of the World Green Building Council, an influential local-regional-global network focused on “the transformation to sustainable and decarbonized built environments for everyone, everywhere.” She is an economist with a background in sustainability, policy, and multi-stakeholder partnerships; as such, she is a trusted convener in international settings such as UN Climate Change summits and the World Economic Forum. Cristina is from Colombia and lives in London. Before she...

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41:33

Stephanie Phillips on valuing materials and a...

Design the Future ·

2024/06/27

Stephanie Phillips leads the City of San Antonio's Deconstruction & Circular Economy Program. Housed in the Office of Historic Preservation, the program prioritizes building material reuse as a tool for affordable housing repair, traditional trades revival, economic innovation, equitable access to high-quality resources, and cultural and community resilience. Her work contributes to nonprofits and coalitions that focus on embodied carbon and circular economy policy and advocacy, incl...

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33:34

Sandeep Ahuja on technology tools for sustainability

Design the Future ·

2024/06/20

Sandeep Ahuja is co-founder and CEO of cove.tool, an AI-first consulting platform that aims to break down barriers in the design and construction cycle, creating a new network of shared information, interoperability, and accountability across projects and teams.In addition to running cove.tool, Sandeep has recently co-authored a book with Patrick Chopson. Build Like It’s the End of the World: A Practical Guide to Decarbonize Architecture, Engineering, and Construction is due out from Wiley by...

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43:45

Nora Rizzo on materials and ethics

Design the Future ·

2024/05/30

Nora Rizzo is Grace Farms Foundation’s Ethical Materials Director. She works to advance the Design for Freedom movement to eliminate forced and child labor from the built environment. For the past two decades, Nora has been dedicated to creating change in the built environment through sustainability, resilience, and social equity work. Nora described the traction around the Design for Freedom work, and shared her excitement about a new public exhibit at Grace Farms Foundation in New Cana...

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48:14

Alyssa-Amor Gibbons on cultural heritage and resilience

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2024/04/25

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Janice Barnes on climate adaptation as part of design

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2024/04/11

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48:15

Paula Melton on green building knowledge and education

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2024/03/21

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45:17

Laurie Schoeman on climate risk, resilience, and finance

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2024/02/22

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39:14

Noorie Rajvanshi on sustainability as part of...

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2024/02/08

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41:54

Veena Singla on environmental health and justice

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2023/12/14

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41:00

Seema Bhangar on human health, data, and buildings

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2023/11/30

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44:39

Annie Bevan on materials and thinking about impact...

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2023/11/16

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44:40

Alejandra Menchaca on design analytics and opening...

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2023/10/26

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46:41

Victoria Burrows on decarbonization and proving the...

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2023/10/05

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43:15

Ariane Laxo on the broadening impacts of design

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2023/09/07

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