The Green Builder Media Network

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.

The Green Builder Media Network is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Green Builder Media Network, a education show with 51 episodes published.

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  The Housing Shortage Myth

  Aug 18, 202616 min

  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.

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

  Aug 12, 20269 min

  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 Tool RMI Green Upgrade Calculator Underbuilt Radar Breezy ADU Accelerator ENERGY STAR Home Upgrade DOE Home Energy Saver The growing debate over private home sales and housing affordability Five emerging healthy home design trends Why one in three new homes now receives a HERS energy rating How 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.html https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/how-bad-is-ai-for-the-environment/ https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-are-hotbeds-of-health-risks What El Niño, wildfire smoke, and climate resilience mean for builders https://prospect.org/2026/07/28/climate-change-wildfires-smoke-el-nino-renewable-energy-trump/ https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/blog/the-age-of-fire-revisited https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/the-us-is-having-one-of-its-worst-wildfire-season-in-years ASHRAE's latest guidance for healthier buildings https://store.accuristech.com/ashrae/searches/47710784 https://store.accuristech.com/ashrae/standards/ashrae-188-2021?product_id=2229689#full Sara Gutterman's latest article, The Age of Fire, Revisited YILBY: Could libraries become part of the housing solution? Product of the Week: HIMACS Solid Surface Book Recommendation: Homes for Our Time by Philip Jodidio 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 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

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  What Else Can AI Gobble Up? The Housing Market.

  Aug 5, 202610 min

  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 Angeles November 2-3: International Conference on Sustainable Interior Design ICSID , San Francisco November 4–5: The Building Products Customer Workshop , Nashville November 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 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 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

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  The Impact Series: Sybil Sharvelle

  Aug 4, 202637 min

  Mike and Sybil talk about water reuse, space missions and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.

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  The Case for Passive Survivability

  Jul 29, 20269 min

  Sara Gutterman talks with Lisa White, Co-Executive Director of Phius, about what buildings really cost the grid—and what they should deliver to the people inside them when conditions turn extreme. Together, they explore passive building, climate-specific performance, wildfire smoke protection, passive survivability, and why first cost fails to capture the true value of comfort, health, resilience, and long-term energy conservation.

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