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The Design Of Business | The Business of DesignS12E1: The Future of Cities is Climate Adaptive with Michael EliasonWelcome to the 12th season of DB|BD. This season we are Designing for the Unknown. Michael Eliason of Larch Lab is an architect, researcher, writer and urbanist based in Seattle He’s a self-described activist for dense, livable, affordable, and sustainable cities and the author of Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities. In the aftermath of the fires in Southern California, Michael helps host Ellen McGirt understand how we can build or rebuild communities to anticipate the significant climate changes imperiling our world and make us healthier, happier, more connected people. On...2025-03-0431 min

Booked on PlanningBuilding for PeopleIn this episode we sit down with Michael Eliason, the architect behind "Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities." Michael unveils the potential of eco-districts as a transformative alternative to the all-too-often car-centric and monotonous transit-oriented developments found in the U.S. Drawing from his extensive research in Europe and China, he casts a spotlight on how cities prioritize ecological orientation and community vibrancy, offering a path to creating sustainable, affordable, and engaging urban spaces. Show Notes:Transit cost project referenced: https://transitcosts.com/about/ Recommended Reading:Soft City by David SimInclusive Transportation b...2025-02-1135 min

Journey With PurposeCourtyard Block with Alicia PedersonImagine a city where kids play safely in lush courtyards, neighbors bond over shared spaces, and errands are just a step away. Courtyard urbanist Alicia Pederson shares how this European housing model could transform American cities for families. LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Show notes & links Find Alicia here: Bluesky & Twitter Things we spoke about:The Urban Family Exodus Is a Warning for Progressives by Derek Thompson The Chicago Two-Flat Chicago Bungalow Belt Single stair / point access buildings:Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities by Michael Eliason More on Courtyard BlocksCan Courtyard Blocks Make...2025-01-0735 min

Podcast – Journey With PurposeCourtyard Block with Alicia PedersonImagine a city where kids play safely in lush courtyards, neighbors bond over shared spaces, and errands are just a step away. Courtyard urbanist Alicia Pederson shares how this European housing model could transform American cities for families. LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Show notes & links Find Alicia here: Bluesky & Twitter Things we spoke about:The Urban Family Exodus Is a Warning for Progressives by Derek Thompson The Chicago Two-Flat Chicago Bungalow Belt Single stair / point access buildings:Building for People: Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities by Michael Eliason More on Courtyard BlocksCan Courtyard...2025-01-0735 min

A Public AffairEducator Labor with MTI’s Jeff Knight and Michael Jones On Ali Muldrow’s last show of 2024, she speaks with representatives from the union that represents educators in the Madison Metro School District. Madison Teacher Inc. President Michael Jones and Executive Director Jeff Knight join the show to talk about the recent Act 10 decision and the quick appeal, the restrictions on collective bargaining that have been in place for the last 13 years, and the bright spots in their union organizing. Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here...2024-12-1153 min

Trashologinnen - Reality-TV psychologisch analysiert#85 Das Sommerhaus F10 - Wen trifft der Sommerhaus Fluch? In dieser Folge hinterfragen wir den „Sommerhaus-Fluch“: Trennen sich Paare wirklich häufiger nach der Show? Wir vergleichen die Trennungsquote im Sommerhaus mit der allgemeinen Scheidungsquote und Trennungen nach Urlauben. Zudem sprechen wir über die queerfeindlichen Aussagen, die angeblich in der Staffel gefallen sind – was sie für die LGBTQIA+ Community bedeuten und wie wir als Gesellschaft damit umgehen sollten. Außerdem fragen wir uns: Sind Menschen wirklich die gefährlichste Spezies? Haben Can und Alessia einen unüberwindbaren Grundkonflikt? Und sind Emmas und Umuts Streits vielleicht genau das Investment, das ihre Beziehung zusammenhält? Eine Folge voller Fragen, Zahlen und sp...2024-11-1957 min

Carbonated ConceptsMichael Belmore - Brotherly LoveSend us a text🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨🔥Ep.164 - Michael Belmore🔥🎩Guest Host - Derek Eliason 🎩🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1043434/15754638-michael-belmore-brotherly-loveGet ready for an inspiring conversation! In our latest episode, Michael Belmore and guest host Derek Eliason join forces to explore the power of brotherly love. We kick off with a fun Oreo Coke Zero taste test, courtesy of SABS, and dive into thought-provoking discussions on gratitude, self-expression, and the impact of our words. Tune in for a motivating exploration of family, friendship, and personal growth.Support the show 2024-09-152h 11

A Wild and Beautiful WorldMichael Eliason: What Our Cities Could Look Like"If we had a climate leader like Anne Hidalgo, the Pike/Pine network itself, going from Capitol Hill, which is dense enough to support its own pedestrian zone and car-free streets, could be car-free or mostly car-free down to the water, there'd be this wonderful green interchange between Capitol Hill and downtown and there's really wonderful opportunities for a sustainable connectivity that we can't really conceive because every square inch of this city has to be handed over to the private vehicle." ____ Mike Eliason is the founder and principal of Larch Lab. He is a...2024-04-261h 12 $The Leader\'s Mindset$ The Leader's MindsetThe Leader's Mindset Podcast - EP 6 : Kenny Eliason (Vegas Local Entrepreneur)Jason LeDuc Talks with Kenny Eliason, CEO @ GETRECORD.COM Welcome to "The Leaders Mindset," where we engage in enlightening conversations with leaders making a profound impact in their companies, families, communities, and beyond. Jason LeDuc talks with a remarkable guest, a Las Vegas native who has ventured into diverse entrepreneurial pursuits, from co-working spaces to multimillion-dollar marketing agencies. Currently, he serves as the CEO @ RECORD, a tech endeavor reshaping the landscape of personal injury case management. Jason and Kenny delve into the world of entrepreneurship, leadership, and transforming the personal injury industry. Follow Kenny's journey from working in personal...2023-11-281h 05

Freakonomics Radio565. Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy?They say they make companies more efficient through savvy management. Critics say they bend the rules to enrich themselves at the expense of consumers and employees. Can they both be right? (Probably not.) RESOURCES:Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America, by Brendan Ballou (2023).Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win, by Sachin Khajuria (2022)."Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership," by Michael Ewens, Arpit Gupta, and Sabrina T. Howell (NBER Working Paper, 2022).“Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes,” by Atul Gupta, Sabrina T. Howell, Const...2023-11-1651 min $Nat\'s Notes$ Nat's NotesHow to End Cravings and Stop Bad Habits (Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter)What I learned from Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter. Join the Nat’s Notes Newsletter to get my top highlights from the book. Get Two Months Free of Readwise Readwise is my favorite reading tool. I use it to automatically extract my highlights from physical books, and I use their Reader to read and highlight everything I find online. Then they automatically organize all of my notes and send them directly to my note-taking tool, so I can immediately lo...2023-10-2737 min

Globally Minded MedicineEpisode 12: Nuances of Medical InterpretationThe need for interpretation is common and critical in global medicine. Student doctor Michael Johnson joins the podcast to discuss the nuances of the vital service that helps deliver quality care to our patients.Co-Host/Guest Information:Michael Johnson is an osteopathic medical student at Rocky Vista University in Southern Utah and hails the University of Utah as his alma mater. He has a bachelor’s degree in biomedical physics with double minors in Spanish and Chemistry. He served an ecclesiastic mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Bogotá, Colombia and surro...2023-09-0524 min

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and DemocracyJanuary 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost)Original Air Date 6/25/2022 Today we take a look at some of the takeaways from the hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection. Most notably: they knew, they knew, they knew, they knew from the very beginning that their fraud claims were nonsense and they pushed ahead anyway. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: The Jan. 6...2023-08-091h 03

Green Energy Futures347. Point Access Blocks - Affordable multifamily housing that's good to live inSeattle Architect Michael Eliason believes we can build affordable, family-friendly multifamily housing that doesn't suck and helps with the housing and climate crises. The answer he says is Point Access Blocks, single staircase buildings that have more windows, more bedrooms, better greenspace and access to well design neighbourhoods. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast Learn more in our blog at www.greenenergyfutures.ca 2023-06-2703 min

UpzonedOne Reason American Architecture Is Considered Boring: StairsHave you ever wondered why multifamily housing has the same, copied look in most places? Part of the reason is due to the way regulations require architects to build stairs. On this Upzoned podcast, host Abby Kinney talks with special guest and architect Kevin Klinkenberg about how building codes and zoning laws can be helpful, yet at the same time limit building possibilities. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES “Why Does American Multifamily Architecture Look so Banal? Here’s One Reason,” by Michael Eliason, The Architect’s Newspaper (March 2023). Abby Kinney (Twitter). Kevin Klinkenberg (Twitter). Theme...2023-04-1233 min

Livable Low-carbon City13: the future of single family homesTwo years ago, a German newspaper ran a piece hinting that Green Party Bundestag member Anton Hofreiter was calling for a ban on new single family homes. Hofreiter had not been calling for a ban on single family homes, but rather an end to subsidies that cater to sprawling detached single family homes, as well as the lower energy efficiency standards they were required to meet, compared to attached homes. After this, the Wuestenrot Stiftung - a foundation focusing on arts, culture, education, and questions around the future - published criteria for a design award on future-oriented s...2023-01-2721 min

Livable Low-carbon City12: Strike ZoneStrike. Verb. A disaster, or other unwelcome phenomenon that suddenly occurs and has harmful or damaging effects on something. Zoning has afflicted our cities - some might say even damaged them - through their lack of flexibility and sterility. A hundred years on, the experiment of zoning is a massive failure. However, it doesn't have to be this way. Other countries don't even have single use zoning like single family zoning in the US... Many others have zoning that is dictated at the federal level. In this week’s episode, we’ll be talking...2023-01-1417 min

Livable Low-carbon City11: Better living through BaugruppenHousing prices in the US are completely out of balance. Affordable housing is difficult to attain in entire metropolitan areas. There are few options for middle class households, and even fewer for working class residents.We need a reset on the American dream.From one that is sprawling, unaffordable, lonely, carbon intensive, and exclusive – to one that is community-oriented, multigenerational, family-friendly and sustainable. One that is inclusive and accessible. Perhaps most importantly, one that is climate-adaptive and resilient to events exacerbated by climate change: energy spikes, heat domes, cold snaps, and extended wildfire smoke events. 2022-12-3020 min

Made You Think86: Comfort is Killing Us: The Comfort CrisisWelcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode we discuss The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, and how our modern lifestyle and pursuit of ease might be making us miserable, stressed, and anxious. We cover a wide range of topics including: The connection between boredom and creativity Misogis and how to discover what you're truly capable of Why you don't necessarily want "less phone" How rucking could be a massive exercise hack The proper "dose" of outdoor, tech-free time And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and...2022-12-221h 34

Livable Low-carbon City10: Re-compaction with AufstockungenAufstockungen is the German term for vertical additions. These are rooftop additions common throughout European cities - where many structures were built with concrete, block, or stone. Vertical additions offer a really interesting path towards re-compacting (densifying) existing neighborhoods in an incredibly sustainable manner. They preserve more affordable, existing housing. They reduce sprawl.They allow the incorporation of new housing without sealing new surfaces - thereby reducing the urban heat island effect, and allowing more area for mitigating storm inundations and flooding. It is also an approach that can...2022-12-1616 min

Livable Low-carbon City09: On Lost OpportunitiesOur cities are full of ghost projects. Lost opportunities. Potentialities that could have prioritized safe streets or public health. Transit station with homes for cars, instead of a neighborhood for people. Streets that prioritize speeding cars, instead of safety and sustainable mobility. But the reality of our cities, at least in the U.S. – is that we don’t realize those opportunities. Often, these ghost projects were eliminated or watered down to preserve single family zoning or parking. We waste these opportunities - opportunities to make our cities better, more equitable, healthier... And we do i...2022-12-0916 min

JAMA Internal Medicine Author InterviewsAssociation Between Nephrologist Ownership of Dialysis Facilities and Clinical OutcomesInterview with Eugene Lin, MD, MS, author of Association Between Nephrologist Ownership of Dialysis Facilities and Clinical Outcomes, and Paul J. Eliason, PhD, author of Physicians as Owners and Agents—A Call for Further Study. Hosted by J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD. Related Content: Association Between Nephrologist Ownership of Dialysis Facilities and Clinical Outcomes Physicians as Owners and Agents—A Call for Further Study 2022-11-0728 min

Livable Low-carbon City08: housing and single parentsSeveral of our friends and colleagues are currently going through divorces and other changes in their family household structure. Many of them were homeowners. However, Seattle - as many other cities in the US, has a pretty severe housing shortage. There are very limited options for housing that is affordable for single parents or those co-parenting... Let alone housing specifically designed for single parents. Over the last year, I have had numerous discussions like this – by and large parents with younger children – who, until their divorce, had been homeowners and housing secure. In the process of getting divorced, they foun...2022-11-0427 min

Livable Low-carbon City07: Freiburg, a Model Green CityNestled at the southwest edge of the Black Forest, close to where France, Germany and Switzerland all come together - is the Green City of Freiburg. I spent a year living and working in Freiburg in 2003-2004, with a really amazing architecture firm ( Pfeifer.Roser.Kuhn Architekten) doing incredible things around low energy buildings and dowel laminated timber. The city, despite its smaller size - with a population of roughly 220,000 - is one of the most livable cities I have ever experienced. Literally all of the things that I am interested in as an architect - Mass...2022-10-2924 min

Livable Low-carbon City06: Smoke Signals: Passivhaus mandates now.Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have had fairly significant wildfire smoke for the last six weeks. For the most part, wind patterns have kept much of the Seattle Metro from experiencing the worst of it. That changed this week, as weather patterns shifted and the dense wildfire smoke cloaked our region for several days, thrusting both Seattle and Portland into the cities with the worst air quality globally. Unfortunately, this pattern is likely to worsen as the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains continue to dry out. Due to their rugged, steep terrain and abundant fuel...2022-10-2218 min

Livable Low-carbon City05: An ARPA for Climate Adaptive UrbanismA few months ago, Larch Lab was contacted to start discussions of an ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) focused on climate adaptive urbanism, influenced by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.With the effects of climate change becoming more frequent and intense than anticipated – we can no longer wait ten to twenty years to adapt to this new normal. Larch Lab believes we need an ARPA-esque project to facilitate the research and development necessary to rapidly roll out high performance, decarbonized buildings, ecodistricts, and cities. This episode of the Livable Low-Carbon City is...2022-10-1539 min

Livable Low-carbon City04: Let's unf*ck TOD!Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the United States lacks the vitality, affordability, access to nature and open space, and high quality urban spaces found in new European ecodistrics/TOD. They are also much more auto-centric than would be found in EU cities - leading in part to a lower quality of life than should be possible. This is in part due to poor building and land use practices. In today's episode, we discuss some of the problems with TOD (yep, the double loaded corridor plays a role!). As well as trends in European TOD - and some e...2022-10-0835 min

Unfrozen39. Seeking the Superfruit of UrbanismMichael Eliason is an architect and founder of Larch Lab, a studio focused on prefabricated, decarbonized, climate-adaptive, low-energy buildings and livable ecodistricts. Eliason, based in Seattle, had a transformative experience while living in Germany – the American residential model could be greatly improved by adopting some of the principles of Baugruppen – self-developed co-housing, without the granola trappings. Hear the Unfrozen interview – and then listen to his podcast, Livable Low-Carbon City. Intro/Outro: “Spacelab” by Kraftwerk Discussed: Black Sheep Development Co., Larch Lab’s baugruppen partner, headed by Aaron Yankauskas Ascent, Milwaukee Jeremy McCloud, Nightingale, Melbourne California d...2022-10-0238 min

Livable Low-carbon City03: The Heat is OnIn a warming world, heat will increasingly be deadly.The IPCC has stated that extreme heat events are due to global warming – and as we are failing to curb emissions – there is a high confidence they will only get worse. Even if your building doesn’t overheat today – it may well in the future. In this episode of the Livable Low-Carbon City, we'll explore the problems with overheating, and some of the ways we can mitigate this to make our buildings and cities more climate adaptive, more livable. Subjects discussed in this episode include...2022-09-3031 min

Face in Hat5.1 Open Questions, an intro to season 5Welcome to season 5! In this season we are studying the recent BYU Studies Quarterly issue 60:3: “Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology.” In each of the articles, an unsettled, open question is presented along with viewpoints from LDS authorities, theologians, and scholars. The goal is not to resolve or debate but to present and discuss, a take we appreciate. Join us! Our first episode is on the article “Oh Say, What Is Truth?”: Approaches to Doctrine, by Michael A. Goodman. Link to our Face in Hat discord server! https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh Full...2022-09-2452 min

Livable Low-carbon City02: Missing Mid-riseUS cities don't have a missing middle problem, they have a missing *mid-rise* problem. A problem that is reflected in the depths of our housing crises – and in the inability to meet climate goals. In this episode of the Livable Low-Carbon City, we'll explore the problems with Missing Middle housing and why it is inadequate to meet the demands of today's housing shortage - and why we need to be focusing on broad areas zoned for mid-rise districts instead. Subjects discussed in this episode include:Missing Middle HousingMid-rise distr...2022-09-2220 min