Latest Healthy home Podcast Episodes
3.27 Live Natural with Ali Davin
Home Green Homes - April 15, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"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 to check everything off the list. It’s not going to be apparent in the final end result that you...
3.27 Live Natural with Ali Devin
Home Green Homes - April 15, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"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 to check everything off the list. It’s not going to be apparent in the final end result that you...
3.26 How To Reduce Waste in Daily Life with Denise Braun
Home Green Homes - April 01, 2024 07:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“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 competitor who is not doing the right packaging or the right product is going to see that they’re losi...
3.25 How I Built My Sustainable ADU with Trent Wolbe
Home Green Homes - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"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 gigantic energy sinks in your home? Two-thirds of home energy use is from heating and hot water....
3.25 How I Built My Sustainable ADU
Home Green Homes - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"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 gigantic energy sinks in your home? Two-thirds of home energy use is from heating and hot water....
3.24 How To Quit Carbon with Cooper Marcus
Home Green Homes - March 04, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"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 sitting in their closet just heating their water and heating their house, right? So that's some folks...
Love to Shower with RainStick with Alisha McFetridge
Home Green Homes - February 19, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“…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 and 50% of that water use stems from the bathroom. It's quite alarming when you start looking at...
3.22 Selling Sustainable Homes with Wayne Beals
Home Green Homes - February 05, 2024 08:02 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“I feel that we have this moral imperative from a business standpoint to preserve our markets. And so, as Realtors, we are advisors. So we explain to our developers, we explain to our buyers, we explain to our sellers how to transact in a way that is most profitable for them. how the Code of E...
3.21 Think Circular: Practical Tips to Design Sustainably with Kathryn Soter
Home Green Homes - January 22, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"The new thinking is around circularity. The idea of circularity is the circulation of materials at their highest value for the longest period of time. And when you design with circular systems in mind, you are thinking about the end at the beginning, meaning what's going to happen to this prod...
3.20 Back to Basics: Sustainable Construction Innovation with Todd Usher
Home Green Homes - January 12, 2024 23:34 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"I think that we will continue to see high performance sustainability at the forefront of innovation. I think it's going to be a slow transition depending on where you are in the world and where you are in the U.S. So I think we're going to see different rates of adoption. I think all of it is ...
3.19 Doctoring Our Homes with Dan Thomsen
Home Green Homes - December 11, 2023 17:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Building science for these principles and tools to measure and test homes and treat them as an interconnected thing so that all the systems work together and you can achieve better results by looking at the house as a system.” - Dan Thomsen Dan Thompson, the owner and founder of Building Docto...
3.18 Home Certifications with Brett Little
Home Green Homes - November 27, 2023 13:09 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere’s been plenty of studies over the years ranging anywhere from half of a percent to 15 percent in value for certifications. And part of it has to do with the areas, so obviously when you get into areas like parts of Texas and California, Florida, Virginia, we saw value increases partiallyb...
3.17 Reward for Purchasing Green Homes with Kerry Langley
Home Green Homes - November 21, 2023 22:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMy model is if you look at the cost of owning a house holistically, is a high performance home better? In most cases I can tell you with all confidence it is. But a lot of people look at first cost, and they say, “wait a minute, this house costs 10,000 bucks more than house B over here, which i...
3.16 Market Place for Green Homes with Kari Klaus
Home Green Homes - October 30, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"Is my home going to last longer? Is home gonna be more beneficial for me in some ways? Is it gonna be easier to maintain? Am I gonna have lower energy bills and water bils? Is it just gonna be cooler? Is it gonna be like really interesting and fun to have some that also happens to be environ...
3.15 Regenerative Retrofit with Ryan McEvoy
Home Green Homes - October 21, 2023 17:24 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSo I make electricity from the sun. With that electricity, I make water out of air. With that water, it goes to the pressure tank. That pressure tank would then take it to the water heater. The water heater is a heat pump water heater, which we use the electricity from the sun to heat the wate...
3.14 Eco-Flip Debrief with Jenny Acosta
Home Green Homes - October 03, 2023 20:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the beginning, just because a lot of people, like I said before, a lot of people, they don't know, or they have not conscious of what's going on in the world, and how they can save money and electricity, gas, or the more healthy. A lot of people aren’t sure. So I was a little hesitant in the...
3.13 Ancient Traditions in Wellness Real Estate with El Larson
Home Green Homes - July 31, 2023 13:04 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“I think there’s definitely certain Feng Shui principles and concepts that can and should be used through our architecture. At the same time, it can also be very logical because Feng Shui is based on the natural world, the interactions with the natural world, the operation of the natural world a...
3.12 Creating a Field of "Eco-Flip" with Steve Matloff - Part 2
Home Green Homes - July 17, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"Literally if you gave me two words to describe you what I’m doing, I would say “eco-flipping.” That is actually what I’d say to you. But there’s a huge difference in what it means because third party certification means adherence to certain standards and have to be not only done but defend it...
3.11 Creating a Field of Eco-Flips with Steve Matloff - Part 1
Home Green Homes - July 07, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"I want to inspire others who are doing this work but based on a different set of priorities, who understand that this priority of sustainability, of efficiencies of resources and processes, of reduction of wastes of all sorts including the carbon is valued. And you should be incorporating those...
3.10 Let's Compost with Cordelia O'Rouke and Glenn Arnade, Grades of Green
Home Green Homes - June 19, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"From the environmental aspect, composing has so many benefits. When you compost your food instead of throw way in the landfill, it gets proper aeration and it has oxygen to properly decompose so it doesn't release harmful greenhouse gasses like methane into the environment. So it's helping kind...
3.9 Preventing Cancer at Home with Melanie Palomares
Home Green Homes - June 01, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"You know, I thought, I know about your podcast and I'm really thinking about what I can contribute in. It's really quite numerous. And so as I said, very little hereditary and so most of it is environmental. So one thing I want to say, it's tangential to your question, but I don't want it to b...
3.8 Changing the Perception of Green Homes with Alter Eco
Home Green Homes - May 26, 2023 18:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Part of that is to be able to honestly and clearly articulate the difference between cost, especially the upfront cost and long term value, obviously the fiscal value of something that works as your monthly output is less for that. And that money can go towards small add to your mortgage. But...
3.7 Human Health vs Environmental Health with Andy Pace
Home Green Homes - May 08, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"I’m a big believer that if a product or space is human friendly, then by definition, it’s environmentally friendly. I don’t think the same is true in the opposite direction. There are plenty of products that are eco-friendly but still very very dangerous for humans. There’s also plenty of ex...
3.6 Go Solar with Confidence with Carol Cole-Lewis
Home Green Homes - April 05, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“So it is one of the most effective things you can do as a homeowner to make a difference to the world with respect to climate is by going solar. So please do not delay because our planet can, well, our planet will be fine, we'll just be dead. We need to make a difference if we want to make th...
3.5 Quiet House for Hypersensitive People with Mike Bender
Home Green Homes - March 27, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“I think especially when you get to the point of EHS, that everybody takes responsibility for their own energy, and that’s part of the healing. Just as important it is to put that metal shielding around those wires as it is to be very mindful of how we’re using our energy, and how we’re treating...
3.4 Inflation Reduction Act with Cynthia Adams
Home Green Homes - March 15, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“A couple of things to know about tax credit. So there’s efficiency tax credit and renewable tax credit. Efficiency tax credits are the ones that were expanded this year. It used to be set at $500 whereas now you can take up to $3,200 in the tax year in which you make the installations. On the r...
3.3 Constructing Green with Karen Benner
Home Green Homes - March 06, 2023 14:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“If I’m speaking to a builder, your home owner, your client is going to be more comfortable, they’re going to be happier; they’re going to be healthier; and they’re going to love living in this home compared to any other home that is less than, and that is something that I think isn’t top of min...
3.2 Waste Free Lifestyle with Amanda Cavallo
Home Green Homes - February 27, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"I went down the rabbit hall of, “O.K. how can every choice I make as a consumer be made with an idea of thinking about where does this come from, what are actually the ingredients, and materials that are being used; and what happens at the end of life of this product?” Basically, my mission rig...
3.1 Lowtility with Don Worthington
Home Green Homes - February 20, 2023 13:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“When you purchase a home, it’s more than just principal and interest. You’re never going to own a home and not utilities, not have power payment, not have gas payment, and not have water payment. So we said, O.K., let’s talk about PITI plus utilities and then what’s that total payment, then how...
2.29 Sustainable Site with Brandon Carlson
Home Green Homes - December 26, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDefinition of sustainable site is it promotes land development and management practices with our future in mind. So sustainable sites generate less waste, minimize impact on the landscape, and use less energy, water and natural resources. Brandon is a Sr. Applications Engineer for one of an in...
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