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Audio Library
Greening the Ghetto, and How Much It Won’t Cost Us
Smart Growth
October 8, 2009
Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, speaking from her experience revitalizing South Bronx’s Hunts Point, explains how “horticultural infrastructure” is not only a key component of successful stormwater runoff management, but also a mechanism for bringing social, economic, and environmental benefits to the entire community.
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Greenovation
Sustainable Communities
September 10, 2009
Discover cutting-edge sustainable technologies and learn how these innovations are conceived, developed, and ultimately brought to the market. Panelists discuss moving green technologies from thought to reality.
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Deep-Energy Retrofits for Existing Homes
Building in the 21st Century
September 10, 2009
Betsy Pettit, AIA, president, Building Science Consulting, provides results from several cold-climate retrofits that addressed windows, insulation, equipment, and more.
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Retrofitting the Suburbs: A New Urbanist Perspective
Smart Growth
July 17, 2009
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture and partner in Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., presents examples of design and policy that have retrofitted suburban sites to make them walkable, transit-oriented urban centers with enhanced quality of life for residents and increased energy conservation.
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New York City's Low-Carbon Diet: Addressing Climate Change through Building Policy
Building in the 21st Century
July 16, 2009
Laurie Kerr, senior policy advisor at New York City’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability, looks at the range of policies being developed to spark widespread efficiency gains in the complex building sector of New York City.
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Achieving Neighborhood Sustainability with LEED
Smart Growth
June 24, 2009
Sophie Lambert, director of LEED for Neighborhood Development at the U.S. Green Building Council, explains how the LEED-ND rating system combines the principles of smart growth, new urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design. Tony Greenberg, JBG Companies, also shares his experience taking the Twinbrook Station project through the LEED-ND process. To view the associated PowerPoint presentation visit: http://www.nbm.org/assets/pdfs/sophie-lambert-6-24-09.pdf
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The Grass IS Greener
Sustainable Communities
June 16, 2009
Panelists discussed the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a review process to define true sustainable landscape design.
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Building America and the Builders' Challenge: Proving ground for net-zero-energy homes
Building in the 21st Century
June 8, 2009
Edward Pollock, residential team leader for the Building Technologies Program at the Department of Energy, discusses technologies developed from these two programs.
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Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
Smart Growth
May 18, 2009
Dr. Esther Sternberg, physician and author, discusses how our place in nature is of critical importance to our personal health and the environment.
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Graying Suburbs
Sustainable Communities
May 7, 2009
As America’s elderly population continues to grow, municipalities face new challenges of providing adequate services. Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, and Jeffery W. Anderzhon, FAIA, 2006 chair of AIA’s Design for Aging Advisory Board, discuss solutions to this upcoming demographic crisis. Elinor Ginzler, AARP’s senior vice president for Livable Communities, moderates.
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