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  • Episode 11: Who Can Afford to Live in Greater Boston? with Aja Kennedy & Katherine Levine Einstein

    Episode 11: Who Can Afford to Live in Greater Boston? with Aja Kennedy & Katherine Levine Einstein
    Jan 30 2025

    The transcript for this episode can be found here.

    Greater Boston Housing Report Card

    Boston Indicators

    Boston Foundation

    Boston University Initiative on Cities

    Housing Navigator Massachusetts

    Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities

    Article in the Boston Globe about weaponizing public land

    Community Preservation Act

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

    Mass Save

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    48 min
  • Pivoting Into Clean Energy Workforce Opportunities with Edward Hsieh of Mass CEC

    Pivoting Into Clean Energy Workforce Opportunities with Edward Hsieh of Mass CEC
    Dec 19 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here.

    Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (Mass CEC)

    Mass CEC Workforce Training

    Mass Save Clean Energy Pathways Internship Program

    Mass Talent Initiative

    Equity Workforce Fund

    MWBE: Minority and/or Women-Owned Business Enterprise

    EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency

    DOE: US Department of Energy

    DOE Training for Residential Energy Contractors Grants (TREC)

    EV: Electric vehicle

    Massachusetts Clean Energy Workforce Needs Assessment

    2023 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report

    2030, 2050 goals for decarbonization

    DOL: US Department of Labor

    Hot Work certification

    CBO: Community-based organization

    RFP: Request for Proposals

    EJ neighborhoods: Environmental Justice Populations in Massachusetts

    Equity Workforce Training Implementation Grants

    Climate-Critical Training, Equipment, and Infrastructure Grants

    Equity Workforce Planning and Capacity Grants

    Minority and Women Business Enterprise Support Grants

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

    Mass Save

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    44 min
  • Pathways to Equitable Energy Efficiency with James Collins

    Pathways to Equitable Energy Efficiency with James Collins
    Nov 21 2024

    ABCD

    LEAN Multifamily program

    WegoWise

    Environmental Justice Communities

    Decarbonization: for more information on what decarbonization is and the goals of decarbonization, listen to BuildingWell Episode 4: The Role of Existing Buildings in a Green World (or Functional Medicine for Buildings)

    BERDO

    LEAN Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) program

    DOER

    DOER Decarbonization Program

    Action, Inc.

    AMP Appliance Management Program

    Categorical benefit list for eligibility for discount utility rate

    Massachusetts Fuel Assistance Program

    www.LEANmultifamily.org

    ABCD Facebook

    ABCD LinkedIn

    ABCD Twitter

    ABCD YouTube

    ABCD Instagram

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

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    30 min
  • The Expanding Influence of Spray Foam Insulation with Kevin Collins

    The Expanding Influence of Spray Foam Insulation with Kevin Collins
    Oct 31 2024

    Guardian Article about spray foam

    Embodied Carbon

    Spray Foam Removal Certification

    Grenfell fires

    “Building Science Corporation did some great testing where they looked at the impact of insulation in assemblies where you have that air gap, because I think folks were concerned that, you know, if you have a layer of air, isn't that defeating the point of insulation?”[1]

    Kristin’s episode on healthy homes

    [1] https://buildingscience.com/documents/reports/rr-1207-vancouver-field-exposure-facility/view

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

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    46 min
  • BONUS! Episode 7 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell

    BONUS! Episode 7 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell
    Oct 10 2024
    Passive House/ Phius Energy Star LEED Enterprise Green Communities Mass Save www.newecology.org
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    8 min
  • Is Boston the New Memphis? Energy Modeling for an Uncertain Future with Ching-Wen Hsiao & Paul Eddowes

    Is Boston the New Memphis? Energy Modeling for an Uncertain Future with Ching-Wen Hsiao & Paul Eddowes
    Sep 26 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here

    ACEEE

    Paper published as a part of ACEEE Summer Study 2024: Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on an Affordable Multifamily Building in Boston, Massachusetts

    LEED

    Passive House

    Energy Star

    Enterprise Green Communities

    Mass Save

    Benchmarking: Measuring and tracking energy use in buildings to better understand energy performance compared to similar buildings

    Building envelope: All building components separating indoors from outdoors. (Exterior walls, foundations, roof, windows, doors, etc.)

    Heat island effect: When urban areas are hotter than the surrounding areas because they absorb and retain more heat and have fewer natural landscape features.

    IES

    Energy Plus

    EQuest

    Wufi Passive

    Fraunhofer

    HERS

    Passive House Institute (PHI)

    Phius

    LITCH: Low-income Housing Tax Credit

    Mass Save Passive House Construction Incentives

    MA Specialized Opt-In Code

    2050 Climate Goals in MA

    BERDO

    CMIP 6

    Energy burden: the percentage of total income that is paid towards energy bills.

    2003 power outage in the Northeast

    Texas 2021 power outage

    Electric resistance heating

    Episode 5 about DHW

    Smart grids

    Microgrids

    Phius Revive for existing buildings

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

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    55 min
  • BONUS! Episode 6 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell

    BONUS! Episode 6 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell
    Sep 12 2024

    WELL Certification

    LEED Health pathways

    Old Colony Case Study regarding building and occupant health

    Passive House/ Phius

    Energy Star

    LEED

    Enterprise Green Communities

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    5 min
  • The Connection Between Home & Health with Kristin Glossner

    The Connection Between Home & Health with Kristin Glossner
    Aug 29 2024
    The transcript for this episode can be found here.Notes from this episode:WELL Building StandardWELL APPhiusCertified Passive House ConsultantLEEDLEED APLEED Green RaterGreen GuardFloorScoreGreen Label PlusCradle to CradleFitwelResetEnterprise Green CommunitiesLiving Building Challenge99% Invisible podcast episode about Octagon HousesOld Colony case studyOld Colony Harvard School of Public Health studyReferences on Kristin's research:Cedeño-Laurent, J.G., Williams, A., MacNaughton, P., Cao, X., Eitland, E., Spengler, J. and Allen, J. (2018). Building Evidence for Health: Green Buildings, Current Science, and Future Challenges. Annual Review of Public Health, [online] 39(1), pp.291–308. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044420Dovjak, M. and Kukec, A. (2019). Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: An Assessment of Health Risk FactorsFrumkin, H., Bratman, G.N., Breslow, S.J., Cochran, B., Kahn Jr, P.H., Lawler, J.J., Levin, P.S., Tandon, P.S., Varanasi, U., Wolf, K.L. and Wood, S.A. (2017). Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda. Environmental Health Perspectives, [online] 125(7). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28796634/Huang, L., Fantke, P., Ritscher, A. and Jolliet, O. (2022). Chemicals of concern in building materials: a high-throughput screening. Journal of Hazardous Materials, [online] 424. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421025425#:~:text=To%20assess%2 0the%20potential%20human%20exposures%20and%20risks,Isaacs%20et%20al.%2C%202014 %2C%20Jolliet%20et%20al.%2C%202021%29. [Accessed 1 Aug. 2022]Kim, D.H. and Bluyssen, P.M. (2020). Clustering of office workers from the OFFICAIR study in The Netherlands based on their self-reported health and comfort. Building and Environment, [online] 176, p.106860. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302195National Center for Healthy Housing (2008). Background on the Importance of Healthy Housing for Older Adults Prepared by the National Center for Healthy Housing. [online] Available at: https://nchh.org/resource-library/fact-sheet_background-on-the-importance-of-healthy-housing-for-older-adults.pdf [Accessed 14 Aug. 2024].Petrovic, E.K., Vale, B. and Pedersen Zari, M. (2017). Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation. [online] Duxford, United Kingdom; Cambridge, Ma, United States: Woodhead Publishing Elsevier. Available at: https://www-sciencedirectcom.ezproxy3.lhl.uab.edu/book/9780081007075/materials-for-a-healthy-ecological-andsustainable-built-environment [Accessed 12 Mar. 2022].The New School: Healthy Materials Lab (n.d.). Why Healthy Materials. [online] Healthy Materials Lab. Available at: https://healthymaterialslab.org/why-healthy-materials [Accessed 3 Apr. 2022]U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://prod-hml.s3.amazonaws.com/news/Better_Building_Materials_Guide.pdf [Accessed 20 Apr. 2022].U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014- 08/documents/sick_building_factsheet.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2022]Welch, L.S. (1991). Severity of health effects associated with building-related illness. Environmental Health Perspectives. [online] Available at: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.919567 [Accessed 5 Mar. 2022]Valette, J., Schettler, T. and Wolfe, M. (2014). Asthamagens in Building Materials: The Problem & Solutions. [online] Healthy Building Network. Available at: https://healthybuilding.net/uploads/files/gb2014-asthmagen-paper.pdf [Accessed 6 May 2022]. Passive House/ PhiusEnergy StarLEEDEnterprise Green CommunitiesMass Savewww.newecology.org
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    42 min