Tag: Green Builder Media Network Podcasts
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Building Codes Don’t Raise Home Prices, Data Centers Hit Roadblocks, and Why Americans Crave Big Homes
This week’s biggest housing stories explore affordability, data center pushback, and the surprising forces shaping the homes we build versus the ones we want.
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Google Wants to Sell Homes, HERS for Manufactured Homes, and the Home Battery Boom
This Week’s Sustainable Building News covers major policy decisions, smarter manufactured homes, changing buyer expectations, and why energy performance is becoming impossible to ignore. The fate of one of America’s biggest housing refo…
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Your Home Is Worth More Than Its Square Footage
In this episode of The Valuation Metric, Sara Gutterman and Cynthia Adams examine why the future of housing depends on valuing performance—not just purchase price. For decades, the housing market has relied on a simple equation: price p…
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Housing Finance Overhaul, Home Batteries as a Side Hustle, and a Crystal Sauna You Have to See
This Week’s Sustainable Building News podcast digs into financing reform, how states are getting houses built, and a utility paying customers to hook their home batteries to the grid.
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Saving Water Vs. Looking Like You’re Saving Water
New research challenges conventional thinking about lawns, landscapes, and what real water conservation looks like. When conversations turn to water conservation, the solution often sounds simple: Remove the grass, replace it with rock,…