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The Sustainable CityHow Real Estate Development Can Boost Urban HealthAdele Houghton and Matt Kiefer think the real estate industry needs to do a better job of understanding the health effects of development. In a recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review called “How Real Estate Development Can Boost Urban Health,” they propose using a public health method called health situation analysis to define, measure and address public health issues in a context-sensitive way, especially in low-income communities and communities of color who are often most at-risk. When applied to commercial real estate development, they argue health situation analysis can transform the public approval process by centering neighborhood heal...
2024-05-0950 minThe Sustainable CityTalking Green Roofs with UrbanStrong’s Alan BurchellToronto was the first North American city to pass a green roof law, in 2009, requiring new buildings or additions that are greater than 21,000 square feet to cover between 20 and 60 percent of their buildings with vegetation. Meanwhile, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration has over 80 buildings with green roofs, spanning approximately 2.2 million square feet, which is about 48 football fields of green roofs. This includes what is believed to be the second largest green roof in the world: the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC, about as large as 10 football fields.Today in the...
2023-12-0850 min
Connections Archives - KGNU Community RadioA roundtable on open spaceOn today’s Connections, a conversation about Boulder’s relationship with open space. In 1967, Boulder became the first city in the United States to tax itself for the acquisition, management, and maintenance of open space.
Is Boulder still a leader over 50 years later? How is it innovating the way people live in a community?
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In the studio with host Eli Kalen to talk about Boulder’s developments with regard to open space over the past 50 years are: Will Torr, Executive Director at Colorado Energy Office; Eric Budd...
2023-09-1600 minThe Sustainable CityThe Future of Cities Writ LargeIn our last three-person episode, we explored the future of work in the post-pandemic, climate age, about office space and commuting patterns. These changes are happening in real time, before our very eyes.The same can be said about the future of cities writ large, not just office buildings and commutes, but cities as a whole: housing, transportation, retail space, parks, institutions. All seem to be in a state of flux, at best, crisis at worse.Are we in a transitory part of the cycle or the beginning of a bigger...
2023-07-1052 minThe Sustainable CityNoah Gallagher Shannon on Sustainable Living and the Uruguay ExampleIn his at once inspiring and dispiriting piece in the New York Times Magazine from November 2022 entitled “What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay,” Noah Gallagher Shannon writes: “This is the paradox at the heart of climate change: We’ve burned far too many fossil fuels to go on living as we have, but we’ve also never learned to live well without them. . . . [T]he problem of the future is how to create a 19th-century carbon footprint without backsliding into a 19th-century standard of living. No model exists for creating such a world, which...
2023-05-2252 minThe Sustainable CityHome, Office, Climate, Cities: What's Ahead?For this episode and the foreseeable future, we’re experimenting with a new podcast format, less linear, less binary, more conversational, informal, improvisational. We intend to focus on issues both of the moment and bigger picture, longer term, all related somehow to sustainable cities, this podcast’s soul’s purpose. We’ll still do more conventional episodes, with special guests, but will also mix it up with our alternative format. To help on this new leg of our podcast journey, we have an additional cohost, Devon Bertram, in lieu of a guest. Devon’s an old friend...
2023-04-2458 minThe Sustainable CityPete Plastrik on Social Innovation and Sustainable CitiesPeter Plastrik knows cities. He was born in Paris, grew up in New York City, and lived in not one but four Michigan cities. He is cofounder and vice president of the Innovation Network for Communities, was a founding consultant to the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and has worked closely with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network since its inception in 2008. Pete has also been the lead author on several national reports about cities and climate change and co-wrote the book, Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities, in 2018. Pete’s most recent book, Con...
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2022-12-0544 minThe Sustainable CitySheila Foster on Co-Cities and a New Model of Urban GovernanceSheila is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown University. She holds a joint appointment with the Law Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy. During the 2021-2022 academic year, she served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Law Center.Sheila also co-directs LabGov, an international applied research project that has pioneered a new model of urban governance and a path toward more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services. From 2017-2020, she served as the chair of the advisory committee for the Global Parliament...
2022-12-0553 minThe Sustainable CityThe Connecticut Case: Sara Bronin on Zoning Reform and Desegregation in the Nutmeg StateLaw and urban planning professor and advocate Sara Bronin founded Desegregate CT to transform Connecticut’s zoning laws from tools for racial exclusion to instruments of social change and sustainability. Widely viewed as the poster child of the “suburban state,” whose old, industrial cities and communities of color have suffered decades of neglect and disinvestment, Connecticut is wising up. Bronin thinks her state can teach the rest of us something useful, even visionary, about how to build sustainable, equitable communities through land use and zoning reform.Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect and attorney whose interdisciplinary resear...
2022-11-0739 minThe Sustainable CityGray to Green Communities, in Conversation with Dana BourlandIn her new book, Gray to Green Communities, Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green one, which values the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. Dana shows that we don’t have to choose between protecting our environment and providing quality housing for all. How can we achieve both climate goals and housing equity when residential buildings alone account for 20 percent of our carbon emissions? What are the inevitable trade-offs and challenges we need address? And where are the success stories we can turn to fo...
2022-10-0359 minThe Sustainable CityInvesting in Sustainable Cities: Purpose and ProfitabilityMoney makes the world go ‘round, and what it doesn’t ruin it can nurture. In this episode, we talk about the role of investment and finance in advancing nature-friendly, equitable communities. From zero-carbon buildings and green roofs to EV charging stations and bike sharing, sustainable cities require a host of new technologies, infrastructure and sophisticated designs. Who pays for this, and who profits? What kinds of opportunities afford the greatest returns, not only financial, but environmental and social?Joining us to discuss money and sustainable cities are Stuart Bernstein, founder of Sustainable Capital LLC and a 30...
2022-09-051h 03The Sustainable CityThe Role of the Chief Sustainability/Climate/Resilience Officer in US CitiesUntil just over a decade ago, there was no such thing as a Sustainability Director orChief Resilience Officer for cities. Now, cities feel incomplete without them. What arethese jobs and why are they so essential to achieving urban sustainability goals? Wepose these questions to our guests, Melanie Nutter, former Director of San Francisco’sDepartment of Environment, and Susie Strife, Director of the Office of Sustainability,Climate Action and Resilience for Boulder County, Colorado.
2022-08-021h 02The Sustainable CityAchieving Our Climate Goals: The Land Use-Transportation NexusRushad Nanavatty, Managing Director and lead of the Rocky Mountain Institute’sUrban Transformation program, and Ben Holland, Senior Associate and PolicyLiaison at RMI, join us to explore the connection between transportation and land use,and how each affects our ability to achieve our climate goals, from commuting to streetdesign to electric vehicles.
2022-07-051h 09The Sustainable CitySustainability and Wellness in the Built EnvironmentWe look at sustainability, health and wellness in buildings and real estate. Beyond azero-carbon built environment, what other goals should we be aiming for in creatingbetter, greener, more inclusive cities? And how do we get there? Our guests are BradJacobson, Principal at EHDD, a San Francisco-based architecture firm leading the waytowards a carbon-neutral built environment, and Alaina Ladner, who heads thesustainability practice at JLL’s Project & Development Services in the West.
2022-06-061h 08The Sustainable CityReinventing the StripRenowned urban designer and planner Peter Calthorpe joins us to discuss his big ideafor making California, and the rest of the nation, more sustainable. He calls it“Reinventing the strip.” Calthorpe is a founding member of the Congress for the NewUrbanism and author of several books, including “Sustainable Communities,” “TheNext American Metropolis,” “The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl,” and“Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change.”
2022-05-0240 minThe Sustainable CityCreating Car-Free CommunitiesCities around the world are trying to find ways to reclaim their streets for people, forwalking, biking, and scootering from point to point. The goal is to make cities safer,cleaner and more fun while reducing or eliminating altogether the number of cars andtrucks that have dominated urban landscapes for almost a century. We talk to the LordMayor of Heidelberg, Germany, Dr. Eckart Wurzner, about his city’s efforts to create acar-free community, and Chris Shears, an urban designer, and planner who has longadvocated for transit-oriented, infill development to...
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2015-03-3020 min
Green is GoodWilliam Shutkin, Presidio Grad. SchoolHost and President of Electronic Recycling International John Shegarian interviews William Shutkin, President and CEO and Richard M. Gray Fellow in Sustainability Practice at Presidio Graduate School. To hear more visit GreenisGoodRadio.com or the Green is Good iHeartRadio Talk page.
2015-03-2820 min