The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

AI, Energy, and Building a More Sustainable Future with Josh Rainbow

🌎 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when AI adoption runs headfirst into energy constraints? Josh Rainbow sees technology, infrastructure, power, and susta

Turning Building Data Into Operational Intelligence with Etrit Demaj

💟 The Green Impact Report Quick take: Sustainability targets are easy to announce. Making buildings actually perform against them? That's where things get complicated. Et

Building for the Next 100 Years with Timber, Wood Fiber, Already Embedded Carbon with Jonathan Orpin

✅ 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 Orpi

The Father of Green Building Returns: David Gottfried on Regen360 and the Operating System for a Regenerative Earth

✅ 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. No

Special Episode: Skema.ai's Origin Story with Co-Founders Marty Rozmanith + Charlie Cichetti

💚 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

Beyond Carbon: Why the Future of Sustainable Materials Requires a Holistic Approach with Annie Bevan

🎯 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 Gr

Building Communities That Last: Human Flourishing, Waste Audits, & the Future of Sustainability with Brian Bollinger

🎯 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 t

Carbon Neutral Concrete Starts with Collaboration: Education, Innovation & Building a More Resilient Future with Kerry Sutton

✅ 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 embodi

Beyond Buildings: Scaling Climate Action Across the Built Environment with Vincent Martinez

💚 The Green Impact Report Quick take: The next chapter of sustainability isn't about making individual buildings slightly better — it's about redesigning entire communiti

Sustainability Is Woven In, Not Handed Out: Making Green Building the Default with Dave Hubka

✅ 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 sustainabili

Ken Rhee on Turning BIM Data Into a Living, Breathing Digital Twin

🎯 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

Leading with Influence: FAIA, LEED Fellow Kirk Teske on Sustainability, Design Leadership, and Protecting What Matters

🎯 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 earlie

Special Episode: Building Skema.ai - Why AI-Native Building Design Is About to Change Everything with Charlie Cichetti, Robin Bienfait & Jim Grady

🎯 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 si

AI, Digital Infrastructure, & the Future of Decarbonization: Anya Eydman on Building Trust in the Energy Transition

🎯 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,

Designing Schools That Heal, Inspire, and Perform Better: Human-Centered Sustainable Design with Bob Morris

🎯 The Green Impact Report Quick take: What happens when sustainability stops being about buzzwords — and starts being about healthier kids, stronger schools, and lower op

From LEED to Decarbonization: Tanya Eagle's Blueprint for the Future of Sustainable Buildings

♻️ 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 fu

Solar, Batteries & the Future of Resilient Buildings with Jesse Michalski

✅ 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 ele

From Passive Design to Net Zero: Transforming London's Built Environment with Sonal Jain

🎙️ 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 sustainab

Designing Sustainability Into Every Decision: Making Green Design the Default with Jennifer Wehling

♻️ 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

Decarbonizing 70% of Buildings: AI, Energy Storage, & the Future of Sustainable Design with Efrie Escott

📕 The Green Impact Report Quick take: If you care about scaling sustainability beyond one building at a time, this episode is a Masterclass. Efrie Escott shows how decarb