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This channel explores affordable, resilient, and sustainable homes through conversations with green building professionals, architects, designers, homeowners, developers, and real estate professionals.
Topics include green building, energy-efficient homes, electrification, climate-resilient housing, and future-ready real estate.
The podcast is for homeowners, buyers, and realtors interested in sustainable real estate, as well as builders and designers working at the intersection of affordability, resilience, and climate-conscious living.
Episodes highlight real-world projects, practical strategies, and lived experiences that make sustainable and eco-friendly homes more accessible and achievable.
Whether you’re a homeowner planning a renovation, a green real estate professional, or simply curious about sustainable housing and regenerative design, this channel offers grounded conversations about how we build, buy, and live in homes that are better for people and the planet.
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104. Eco-Flip Playbook: Real Talk with Mary Love
What does it actually look like to flip a house the green way — and make the numbers work?In this episode, Izumi sits down with Mary Love, a North Carolina-based green realtor, building scientist,…
103. Built to Last. Or Fail? with George Siegel
Are homes really built to last… or just built to sell?In this eye-opening episode, Izumi sits down with documentary filmmaker George Siegal, creator of Built to Last: Buyer Beware, to uncover the…
102. A Father's Journey for Green Home with Nick Grimm
In this episode of Home Green Homes, Izumi Tanaka talks with Nick Grimm — a father, homeowner, and sustainability professional who is gradually transforming his 1953 Los Angeles home into a healthier…
101. Electrifying Made Easy with Elephant Energy: Akanksha Mathur
If you're a homeowner wondering whether it’s time to replace gas appliances with electric alternatives — this episode is for you.In Episode 102 of Home Green Homes, Izumi chats with Akanksha Mathur,…
100. Prefab for a Changing Climate: A Conversation with Plant Prefab Founder Steve Glenn
What does it really take to build homes that are beautiful, efficient, resilient, and responsible?In this special 100th episode of Home Green Homes, Izumi Tanaka welcomes Steve Glenn, founder and CEO…
S3E37 3.37 Creating Super Cool Future with Josh Dorfman
“So when I think about a future that is solving climate, I think about raising our quality of life. I think about more inclusive cities with wonderful parks, and it's a fantastic mass transportation…
S3E36 3.36 Nature Inspired Robotic Design
“We’re always inspired by nature and using nature as a starting point. So we can use the most advanced technology whether it’s robotics or parametric design using algorithms, AI. Regardless of the…
S3E35 3.35 Why Earthen Buildings with Sasha Rabin
“I think there's a whole new awareness right now after these fires in LA, at least for people who live in California of like, just actually how toxic our whole houses are. So, you know, the answer…
S3E736 3.34 Resilient and Affordable Zero Energy Homes with Joaquin Karcher
“The secret is cost shifting. That’s the secret. So we shift the cost from expensive mechanical systems into the quality of the building shell, of the building envelope. We have what we call a…
S3E33 3.33 Creating Toxin Free Homes with Karen Bloom
Healthy home supports your health, in my opinion, from the air we’re breathing, the materials around you, it's designed to promote your health and it prioritizes air quality, has items that are made…
S3E32 3.32 Navigating the Electrification Rebates with Anita Singha
"The fact of the matter is your heating your home and cooling your home and heating your water are the two biggest loads to your electric bill. They cost the most in in your home. So this is an…
S3E31 3.31 Let's Go Electric with Incentives with Aimee Bailey
We are focused on incentives for home upgrade projects. We’re focused right now on residential space. If anyone is listening or you might have applied for a rebate program in the past, like an…
S3E30 3.30 Living in Harmony at Eco-Village with Lois Arkin
If you’re thinking about starting an Eco-Village, you wanna know, essentially you want to know what are the issues with soil, with air, with water, in your bio-region, in the ecological region that…
S3E29 3.29 Getting Comfy with the World's Smartest Heater with Jane Melia
“And what we did was, ‘let’s combine the performance of heat pump, off the shelf heat pump, heat pump water heater, with thermal storage with really really smart controls, and you can reap the…
S3E28 3.28 Reducing Plastic Waste One Product At A Time with Libby Bourne
“During Covid I started to think more about the products I was using and plastics. I’d always used refilled bottles for water and I’d reuse plastic bags at the grocery store. Then I heard the…
S3E27 3.27 Live Natural with Ali Davin
"We’re not sacrificing anything aesthetic. We’re not sacrificing anything ergonomic by being mindful. We’re just pausing and thinking about it and making a good decision instead of rushing through…
S3E26 3.26 How To Reduce Waste in Daily Life with Denise Braun
“You as a consumer, I as a consumer have enormous power to make the transformation that we want to see. But one of the transformations as a consumer is selecting the right products because the…
S3E25 3.25 How I Built My Sustainable ADU with Trent Wolbe
"For me, mantra in my sort of day-to-day climate work is go for the gigatons. And while as a homeowner, a single homeowner, you can't do that, you can look at your biggest spend. So what are the most…
S3E24 3.24 How To Quit Carbon with Cooper Marcus
"For some folks, they become really motivated by the climate crisis. They start to understand that in their family, maybe their single largest source of climate pollution, and it's a big one, is…
S3E23 Love to Shower with RainStick with Alisha McFetridge
“…what can we do in terms of water and energy? Something that's super decentralized that doesn't make people compromise. And we started to look at where water is used most within the residential home…
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Home Green Homes has published 104 episodes since May 2019, covering topics in Arts, Design.
Home Green Homes is currently active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 33m.
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