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The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

Charlie Cichetti

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? Listen to the personal stories of our guests and let Charlie"s passion help convince you why green buildings are essential to our shared future. Each episode illustrates a unique journey through sustainability and towards resilience. Charlie explores the challenges and celebrations of the movers and shakers in

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40:44

Keeping Green Building Simple, Efficient, and Ready...

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2026/09/30

📝 The Green Impact Report Quick take: The future of high-performance buildings isn't necessarily about adding more technology — it's about making smarter decisions. Mechanical engineering leader Dale Garfield breaks down why fundamentals, heat pumps, renewable-ready infrastructure, and owner-focused design matter as buildings move toward a lower-energy future. 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Dale Garfield's path to building engineering started somewhere unexpected: the United States

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53:31

AI, Energy, and Building a More Sustainable Future...

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2026/09/23

🌎 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when AI adoption runs headfirst into energy constraints? Josh Rainbow sees technology, infrastructure, power, and sustainability becoming increasingly interconnected — and believes the winners will be the people who can turn emerging technology into measurable business outcomes. From running an AI-native company with roughly 250 AI agents to bringing global leaders together through Future Summit, Josh offers a fascinating look at where technology,

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40:20

Turning Building Data Into Operational Intelligence...

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2026/09/16

💟 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability targets are easy to announce. Making buildings actually perform against them? That's where things get complicated. Etrit Demaj makes the case that the next phase of green building will be powered by real-time operational data, interoperable building systems, and AI — not another static report. 👨‍🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Etrit Demaj is an entrepreneur and co-founder of KodeLabs, a technology company working to make building

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36:32

Building for the Next 100 Years with Timber, Wood...

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2026/09/09

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: What if the greenest building innovation isn't waiting around the corner — it's already here? New Energy Works founder Jonathan Orpin makes the case for building better now, using durable timber structures, wood-fiber insulation, off-site construction, and mass timber to tackle carbon without sacrificing craft or economics. 👨‍🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Jonathan Orpin is the founder of New Energy Works, a timber framing and sustainable

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58:21

The Father of Green Building Returns: David Gottfried...

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2026/09/02

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: David Gottfried co-founded USGBC, wrote the first white paper proposing a US rating system, and lit the fuse on what became LEED. Now, 30+ years and 30 billion square feet later, he's back with a bigger question: if we can green every building on Earth and still miss the climate targets, what have we forgotten? 👨‍🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion David Gottfried is the Founder & CEO of Regen360, where he serves as a strategic advisor to leading

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50:31

Special Episode: Skema.ai's Origin Story with...

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2026/08/26

💚 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Marty Rozmanith spent seven years writing the requirements for Revit — the tool that runs $1.2B a year in the AEC industry — and now he's building what comes after it. His pitch: pair AI with discrete engineering solvers so every design choice is explainable, not just fast, and use that to strip the padding owners quietly add to every project "just in case." 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Charlie Cichetti Co-Founder & CEO of Skema.ai, serial

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38:37

Beyond Carbon: Why the Future of Sustainable...

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2026/08/19

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainable buildings aren't just about reducing carbon anymore. In this episode, Annie Bevan explains why the next generation of Green Building Leaders must evaluate materials through multiple lenses — including climate, human health, social equity, biodiversity, and circularity — to make smarter, business-driven decisions that accelerate industry-wide impact. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Annie Bevan is the Founder and CEO of the Sustainability

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01:14:33

Building Communities That Last: Human Flourishing,...

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2026/08/12

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability isn't just about reducing carbon or earning certifications — it's about creating places where people can thrive. In this episode, Brian Bollinger shares how green building, technology, AI, waste reduction, and thoughtful community design all work together to create healthier buildings, stronger businesses, and more resilient communities. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Brian Bollinger is a sustainability strategist, entrepreneur, and

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35:26

Carbon Neutral Concrete Starts with Collaboration: ...

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2026/08/05

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick Take: Concrete is responsible for building nearly every community on earth—and it's also one of the biggest opportunities to reduce embodied carbon. In this episode, Kerry Sutton explains why the future isn't about finding one miracle material. It's about educating the entire industry, embracing innovation responsibly, and collaborating across every stakeholder to create resilient, lower-carbon infrastructure that lasts for generations. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow

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45:57

Beyond Buildings: Scaling Climate Action Across the...

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2026/07/29

💚 The Green Impact Report Quick take: The next chapter of sustainability isn't about making individual buildings slightly better — it's about redesigning entire communities. Vincent Martinez explains why the future of decarbonization depends on collaboration, adaptive reuse, electrification, and thinking beyond the building itself. 🫶 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Vincent Martinez is the President & CEO of Architecture 2030, where he has spent nearly two decades helping shape the global

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30:36

Sustainability Is Woven In, Not Handed Out: Making...

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2026/07/22

✅ 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 approach of building sustainability directly into the spec (instead of waiting for a client to ask) is a playbook every green building professional can steal. 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Dave Hubka is the Sustainability Practice Leader at EUA, where he lights the way for the firm's team to create healthier buildings for clients and the environment

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37:08

Ken Rhee on Turning BIM Data Into a Living, Breathing...

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2026/07/15

🎯 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 using AI and sensors to turn "as-built" data into real-time building intelligence that pays off in energy, insurance, and asset value. 🤩 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Ken Rhee Joined VIM Build in Atlanta, GA as President at the beginning of January, 2026. Co-founded Integral VIM, a BIM consulting company based in Shanghai in 2021, together with Arol

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37:23

Leading with Influence: FAIA, LEED Fellow Kirk Teske...

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2026/07/08

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: After 42 years at HKS, Kirk Teske reflects on a career that helped shape sustainable design at scale. From leading one of the earliest LEED pilot projects to influencing generations of architects, Kirk shares why responsible design, stakeholder engagement, and courageous leadership remain the foundation of a better built environment. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Kirk Teske is a retired architect, LEED Fellow, and former Global Director at HKS,

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48:41

Special Episode: Building Skema.ai - Why AI-Native...

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2026/07/01

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick Take: What happens when a LEED Fellow entrepreneur, a Fortune 500 technology executive (turn investor), and a startup growth strategist sit down to discuss the future of building design? You get an inside look at how AI is reshaping architecture, construction, ownership, and the economics of the built environment. In this special episode, Charlie Cichetti, Robin Bienfait, and Jim Grady explore why the next generation of buildings won't be designed from scratch —

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40:00

AI, Digital Infrastructure, & the Future of...

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2026/06/24

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: AI, data centers, and digital infrastructure are transforming the built environment faster than most of us realize. In this episode, Anya Eydman explains why the future of decarbonization isn't just about technology—it's about trust, education, community engagement, and helping buildings become active participants in a cleaner, more resilient energy ecosystem. 🎓 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion **Anya Eydman is a strategic advisor and community

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28:50

Designing Schools That Heal, Inspire, and Perform...

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2026/06/17

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when sustainability stops being about buzzwords — and starts being about healthier kids, stronger schools, and lower operational costs? Architect Bob Morris breaks down how net-zero schools, biophilic design, and human-centered architecture are reshaping the future of education. 🙋 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion **Bob is an architect who specializes in the planning and design of K12 schools for EUA, a multi-disciplinary design firm with

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37:13

From LEED to Decarbonization: Tanya Eagle's Blueprint...

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2026/06/10

♻️ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Tanya Eagle has spent her career proving that sustainability isn't a "nice to have" — it's a smarter way to design, operate, and future-proof buildings. In this episode, the LEED Fellow and JLL sustainability leader shares why the future of green building is bigger than certifications and how decarbonization, wellness, resilience, and material health are converging into one holistic strategy. 🙋 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion With over sixteen years

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30:18

Solar, Batteries & the Future of Resilient Buildings...

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2026/06/03

✅ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Most schools talk about sustainability. Jesse Michalski helped build one that actually runs on it. In this episode, the longtime electrician and renewable energy specialist breaks down how a Wisconsin middle school became a net-zero energy success story —without sacrificing practicality, ROI, or resilience. 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Jesse Michalski is a renewable energy specialist at Eland Electric, a third-generation electrical contractor

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36:37

From Passive Design to Net Zero: Transforming...

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2026/05/27

🎙️ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Most sustainability conversations stop at ambition. Sonal Jain is focused on execution. In this episode, the King's Cross sustainability leader breaks down how one of London's most influential mixed-use estates is turning net-zero commitments into operational reality — through electrification, performance-first thinking, and commercially driven sustainability strategies. 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Sonal Jain is a sustainability and social

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25:08

Designing Sustainability Into Every Decision: Making...

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2026/05/20

♻️ The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability isn't a feature — it's the baseline. Jennifer Wehling breaks down how Embedding Green Strategies into every decision (not waiting for permission) is how firms scale impact fast. 🤝 Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion A licensed architect with over 20 years of experience working on a wide variety of project types, Jennifer Wehling 's experience as an architect and passion for the

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