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Audio Library
The Costs and Benefits of Greening Our Buildings and Slowing Climate Change
Building in the 21st Century
May 7, 2009
Gregory Kats, managing director of Good Energies and chair of LEED Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group, gives his take on the costs and benefits of greening our buildings.
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Beauty vs. Barricades
Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture
April 14, 2009
Robert Campbell, architectural critic for The Boston Globe, examines how to balance the need for security with accessibility, transparency, and aesthetics in D.C.’s built environment.
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The Opposite of Traffic
Smart Growth
April 14, 2009
Ellen Greenberg, independent consultant and former Research Director for the Congress for New Urbanism, offers eye-opening perspectives on different ways to define transportation success—some of which assign tackling congestion a surprisingly minor role.
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A Blueprint for Green Communities
Building in the 21st Century
April 13, 2009
How do we actually make green communities? Walker Wells, director of the Resource Efficiency and the Sustainable Communities program for Global Green USA, provides answers to this question through best practices for green building that are used by architects, developers, and affordable housing managers.
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Water Knows No Boundaries
Sustainable Communities
March 31, 2009
Panelists discuss practical solutions for cleaning up watersheds that cross multiple municipalities, with a specific focus on the 40-year effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay.
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By the Way: Designing Views of the Natural Landscape
March 30, 2009
Norwegian architects Henning Kaland, partner, Code: architecture, and Tommie Wilhemsen, head of his own firm, discuss their designs for Norway’s National Tourist Route. Brad Cownover, ASLA, of Scenic America, joins them to discuss the history and current state of scenic byways in the U.S. and Europe. Martin Moeller, senior vice president and curator at the Museum, moderates.
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Smart Growth and Green Building in the Media
Smart Growth
March 18, 2009
The terms “smart growth” and “green building” are widely accepted as shorthand for a different approach to growth and development, but it wasn’t always that way. Haya El Nasser, of USA Today, discusses this shift and the prospects for media coverage of new and emerging issues related to growth in the future.
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Jeanne Gang on Transforming Skylines and Communities
Women of Architecture
March 9, 2009
Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, and one of the new breed of young architects changing the profession, discusses the transformative elements of urban buildings and neighborhoods in Gang’s native Chicago and beyond.
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The Role of Buildings in Arlington's Climate Action Program: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Building in the 21st Century
March 5, 2009
John Morrill, Energy Manager, Arlington County’s Department of Environmental Services, and coordinator of Fresh AIRE—Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions—illustrates the impact of buildings on Arlington’s climate footprint and how improved energy efficiency can help reduce it.
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Building Recombinant Ecologies
Building in the 21st Century
February 11, 2009
Stephen Luoni from the University of Arkansas Community Design Center discusses holistic planning methods that bring social and environmental considerations to urban economic development.
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