The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

Susan El-Naggar is a LEED Green Associate and WELL AP and along with her husband, Tarik, AIA both are principals at Healing Environments. Susan has over 20 years of experience as an interior designer. She received her education for interior design at The International Academy of Design & Technology in Chicago and completed additional studies in Portugal, Egypt, Israel, and Montreal. She has worked on a variety of projects in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and California. Susan is an NCIDQ certified interior designer and a registered interior designer in Indiana and Illinois. Susan has been recognized in Who's Who in Entrepreneurs, participated in showcase houses for interior design in Indiana and Illinois, and has been a speaker and consultant throughout Northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. She has been a chairperson for the American Society of Interior Design IL Chapter, and Porter County Builders Association. She also sat as a juror for the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). She is currently a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers, Valparaiso Chamber, and U.S. Green Building Council. Susan El-Naggar - Get To Know Susan Susan got her start at the International Academy of Design and Technology, focusing on interior design. She became sustainable-minded when she and her husband started to study products in their household. They began to switch these products with green products that worked for them. Then, they leaned into their interior design and agriculture business. Susan and Tarik now make sure houses and rooms promote healing and inner peace for the spirit. "My husband and I started to gather all of the products in our home and started to replace them with green products. This was the beginning of my journey into that space." - Susan El-Naggar Early Sustainability Journey Susan begins by telling us how she wanted to be an interior design and create her own business. This love started at a young age when she went to art school and would create art. Susan would do everything by herself when her first business started and then she went to school for interior design. Proudest Achievements Susan's greatest moment in her career was creating a project with her husband. This project was at a home, and the client wanted a healing spot for their household. Susan and her husband were able to tear down a master room and create a spa room. This was made with green products and natural products. They entered this in the American Society of Interior Design Illinois chapter and won first place. "We started to knock the room down all the way, and we could do whatever we wanted. All they wanted was a room like a spa retreat room. We were able to use green products, and it was one of the first times doing so." - Susan El-Naggar Book Recommendations Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen GBES Community: https://www.gbes.com/unlimited-leed-and-well-training-and-education/ Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Susan El-Naggar's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Susan El-Naggar: Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Mark Loeffler is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a LEED Fellow and has practiced lighting and sustainable design consulting for more than 30 years. Based in the New Haven area, Mark enjoys working with innumerable architects, engineers, organizations, and institutions across the Northeast US on a wide range of ambitious and notable projects of every type and scale. Mark collaborates with architects, engineers, planners, and facility managers to help them better leverage their own lighting and sustainable design talents and resources to deliver inspired and vital buildings. From hourly consulting on individual project challenges to more comprehensive involvement in strategic planning, Mark assists with architectural lighting, day lighting, and sustainable design workshops, concept development, performance criteria, analytical requirements, peer review, and benchmarking readiness. Mark Loeffler - Get To Know Mark Mark grew up in Austin, Texas in the 1960s and 1970s. He started off at the University of Texas as a novelist but became an assistant lighting designer of Austin Ballet Theater. He then finished his degree in Humanities but focused on lighting as a career. In 1987, Mark and his wife moved to New Haven, Connecticut and finished with an MFA in Agricultural Lighting. Very quickly, Mark started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting, then got involved with energy efficiency and design. "I went to work for a woman who started her own firm that started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting and that's where I really got involved with energy efficiency and sustainable lighting design in the late '80s and early '90s, well before LEED." - Mark Loeffler Early Sustainability Journey Mark made the change from theatrical design to agricultural pretty quickly. Mark took what he knew from theatrical design and applied it to his agricultural practice. Mark admired that people respond to lighting in different ways and the combination of natural and artificial lighting is where he found his passion. Mark uses this as a framing tool to approach a design for his projects. Mike eventually worked for Howard J. Brown who let him explore this passion and taught him how to do better with less. "Howard Brown was a huge influence and gave me the opportunity to practice lighting design as part as early sustainable designs environmental management systems for corporations, which would become a big part in the sustainable movement." - Mark Loeffler Proudest Achievements Mark has had the pleasure to work on very notable buildings around the Connecticut area. He has been blessed with the opportunity to work on over 100 projects at Yale University and led the early beginnings of the sustainable movement on campus. He helped with the Brain Museum which was their first LED project and won Sustainable Project of the Year from the Illuminating Engineering Society. Mark was the founding member of the New Haven office that led the design team for the Brain Museum. "I've had the privilege to work on a lot of notable buildings since the 2000s, especially here in New Haven. Working at Yale University, we have been able to save 29% of their energy and have them use LEED Gold. So, over the years I've been able to work on over 100 projects." - Mark Loeffler Book Recommendations Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Malcolm Wells Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Mark Loeffler's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Mark Loeffler: Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Mark Loeffler is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a LEED Fellow and has practiced lighting and sustainable design consulting for more than 30 years. Based in the New Haven area, Mark enjoys working with innumerable architects, engineers, organizations, and institutions across the Northeast US on a wide range of ambitious and notable projects of every type and scale. Mark collaborates with architects, engineers, planners, and facility managers to help them better leverage their own lighting and sustainable design talents and resources to deliver inspired and vital buildings. From hourly consulting on individual project challenges to more comprehensive involvement in strategic planning, Mark assists with architectural lighting, day lighting, and sustainable design workshops, concept development, performance criteria, analytical requirements, peer review, and benchmarking readiness. Mark Loeffler - Get To Know Mark Mark grew up in Austin, Texas in the 1960s and 1970s. He started off at the University of Texas as a novelist but became an assistant lighting designer of Austin Ballet Theater. He then finished his degree in Humanities but focused on lighting as a career. In 1987, Mark and his wife moved to New Haven, Connecticut and finished with an MFA in Agricultural Lighting. Very quickly, Mark started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting, then got involved with energy efficiency and design. "I went to work for a woman who started her own firm that started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting and that's where I really got involved with energy efficiency and sustainable lighting design in the late '80s and early '90s, well before LEED." - Mark Loeffler Early Sustainability Journey Mark made the change from theatrical design to agricultural pretty quickly. Mark took what he knew from theatrical design and applied it to his agricultural practice. Mark admired that people respond to lighting in different ways and the combination of natural and artificial lighting is where he found his passion. Mark uses this as a framing tool to approach a design for his projects. Mike eventually worked for Howard J. Brown who let him explore this passion and taught him how to do better with less. "Howard Brown was a huge influence and gave me the opportunity to practice lighting design as part as early sustainable designs environmental management systems for corporations, which would become a big part in the sustainable movement." - Mark Loeffler Proudest Achievements Mark has had the pleasure to work on very notable buildings around the Connecticut area. He has been blessed with the opportunity to work on over 100 projects at Yale University and led the early beginnings of the sustainable movement on campus. He helped with the Brain Museum which was their first LED project and won Sustainable Project of the Year from the Illuminating Engineering Society. Mark was the founding member of the New Haven office that led the design team for the Brain Museum. "I've had the privilege to work on a lot of notable buildings since the 2000s, especially here in New Haven. Working at Yale University, we have been able to save 29% of their energy and have them use LEED Gold. So, over the years I've been able to work on over 100 projects." - Mark Loeffler Book Recommendations Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Malcolm Wells Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Mark Loeffler's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Mark Loeffler: Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Dan Burgoyne is the Sustainability Manager for California's Department of General Services (DGS), where he develops and helps implement policies improving California's sustainable buildings, energy, water and resource efficiency. Dan is a California-licensed architect and LEED Fellow, with over 26 years of experience in the design and construction industry, and green building policy. Dan led the development of California Governor Jerry Brown's green building Executive Order B-18-12, and now leads its implementation under the direction of the Governor's office, pushing California toward Zero Net Energy buildings, LEED certified buildings, reduced emissions, improved energy and water efficiency, and sustainable building operations. Dan has served as a green building advisor to the California Green Building Code (CalGREEN), GSA, and California's High Speed Rail Authority. Dan served twice on the USGBC Board of Directors, as well as Government and LEED MR TAG committees, and on the USGBC's Advisory Council. Dan is also an advisor and instructor for the University of California, Davis Extension. Dan Burgoyne - Get To Know Dan Dan grew up in Eugene, Oregon in the 1960's and 1970's. There were a lot of trees around and Dan had another career in mind. He was told he would be a good chemical engineer or architect. In high school he enrolled in Chemistry and Drafting. Very quickly he had dropped Chemistry and the rest is history. "I pursued architecture and went to a number of schools. I started out in a drafting trade school in Arizona outside the Phoenix area. I went to Brigham Young for a few years, transferred to the West Valley College in Saratoga, California where I started studying architecture again. I finished up a Cal Poly in San Luis Ospido in architecture." - Dan Burgoyne Early Sustainability Journey Dan admired the simplicity of the shelters that earth-minded people lived in that were around the Eugene, OR area. He was passionate about passive design earth sheltered homes and read everything he could on those subjects. It was still new but there were a lot of designs. Dan eventually became a Sustainability Manager and the green building and LEED movement sparked his interest. "I worked in my career as an architect for a number of years and then got into project management and ended up at the State of California in the Department of General Services. After a year at the state I interviewed for and accepted a position as Sustainability Manager. I have there for 17 years." - Dan Burgoyne Proudest Achievements Dan's proudest achievement by far is his family. He has been married for 34 years and has 3 children, They are all in school pursuing their own careers, none of them in architecture but have been a great influence in is life. "In my career, developing green building policies for the state is also a proud achievement. I have served under 4 different administrations and under the last 3 very much more involved and in 2004 I participated with Schwarzenegger's Executive Order. At that time we took a leap of faith and became the first government that required LEED Certification for new and existing buildings." - Dan Burgoyne Book Recommendations The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect's Sketchbook by Malcolm Wells The Passive Solar Energy Book by Edward Masria Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Dan Burgoyne's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Dan Burgoyne: LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Kenyona Pierre is currently a Sustainability Consultant with Energy Cost Solutions Group, LLC (ECSG,LLC). She is still involved with the USGBC Florida Chapter, GBES' Green Building Matters Community, and Habitat for Humanity Young Professionals. Her goal and passion for green buildings and sustainability remain the same. Kenyona Pierre - Early Career Kenyona is a native to Miami, Florida. She was introduced to engineering in high school and at that time wanted to be an architect. She was open minded about it and decided she would do both. So Kenyona pursued architectural engineering at Tennessee State and then upon graduation she got a job as an engineering intern and was in their sustainable group. Kenyona went on and did post graduate coursework in Transportation Engineering at the University of Alabama and then earned her MBA from Florida Institute of Technology. "What I got out of it is the best of both worlds. It was one of those niches and engineering that really don't get much, it just doesn't get as much accolades as it should. It's basically engineering the systems of a building that are just, engineering the systems or to all the systems. We focused on the structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, acoustics even go into the facade of the building as well as the construction management portion of it." - Kenyona Pierre Career Highlights Kenyona is currently working on a lot of sustainability documentation. It's not all strictly towards LEED but she is learning the background about how you become building certified. Kenyona spent a lot of time advocating for the movement and learning about green buildings and sustainability. "It is completely different once you actually get into the trenches and start, you know, documentation and trying to go through the actual process of certifying the buildings. And so it's a lot of project management. I'm learning to utilize the skills that I obtained in my MBA program. And so a lot of the projects that I've been working on is, it's a mix." - Kenyona Pierre Proudest Accomplishments Some accomplishments that Kenyona is proud of is the completion of her EcoDistricts AP credential last summer. She has been part of the inaugural cohort for the AIA Miami Christopher Kelly Leadership Development Program. Kenyona will be wrapping up this program soon and is looking forward to utilizing the skills set developed from her time participating in the program. Book Recommendations Atomic Habits by James Clear Matilda by Roald Dahl The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Kenyona Pierre's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Kenyona Pierre: LinkedIn E-mail Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Erik Ring has a breadth of experience in engineering, consulting, design, analysis, and commissioning for green building projects. Erik is a Principal and the Director of Engineering at LPA, Inc., an integrated design firm specializing in sustainable design for commercial, educational, civic, sports and recreation, and health care projects. Erik has provided MEP systems design, energy modeling, LEED documentation coordination, energy efficiency consulting, and commissioning services to numerous green building projects, including over fifty completed LEED-NC and LEED-CI projects. Erik Ring - Early Career Erik grew up in a college town named Lawrence in Kansas. He wanted to see another part of the world so he went to Harvey Mudd College and earned a BS in Engineering and then to the University of California, Berkeley where he earned an MS in Architecture. Erik still lives in California today. "At Berkeley I was able to work with the building science group and learned a lot about thermal comfort and gained a different attitude and approaches as to what makes a building comfortable, healthy, and sustainable." - Erik Ring LEED Experiences Erik did some early LEED (version 1.0) work when LEED was just a pilot program. After grad school he was fortunate to work on some brand new LEED projects right when the first public version of LEED was released in 2000-2001. "I was able to cut my teeth on the engineering side of what made those early LEED (version 2.0) projects and that helped me learn a lot about how the industry was approaching green buildings and develop my own kind of attitudes and ideas towards what I thought about green buildings and how I wanted to approach and apply that to the projects I'm working on." - Erik Ring Rituals and Routines In Erik's firm they talk a lot about balance and taking the time for all the other things in your life. He strives to shut down after a hard day and head home to spend time with his family or head to the gym. Taking the dogs on a walk is a time he enjoys reflecting. "I think it is important to find time in your day and in your routine to relax and reflect on the day ahead." - Erik Ring Book Recommendations Factfullness by Hans Rosling Wild Ones by John Mooallem Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Erik Ring's journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Erik Ring: LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Rosalind Wyatt is a consultant that helps companies develop the right 'SUSTAINEGY' by combining smart business strategy with sustainability to achieve a strong triple bottom line. She believes the key is to balance the goals of making a profit, protecting the planet, and meeting the needs of stakeholders. Rosalind is a Marketing educator that helps current and future business leaders understand the importance of achieving the triple bottom line and the role that marketing plays in helping companies develop more sustainable business practices. The Path Ros Followed Ros started out at Prairie View A & M University in Texas and earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering. She then went to work for Tennessee Valley Authority in a nuclear power plant but knew she wanted to go back to school. Ros then decided to get her MBA at Tennessee Technical University and then returned to Houston, TX where she is from. Someone encouraged Ros to get her Ph.D, Marketing at the University of Houston and ended up teaching there for the next 10 years. "I was having a hard time finding what I wanted to do next so I had some down time and I said I am going to do something I have always wanted to do, it's like a fun thing. I had just gotten married, I had a little freedom to explore some things so I decided to go and work for the National Public Radio Affiliate here." - Rosalind Wyatt Business, Marketing and Sustainability Ros was starting to feel uneasy in her work and went to a conference on business in sustainability. She was inspired and changed the way she taught marketing. Teaching sustainability in business and marketing became the norm. "My aunt had an iron that I swear she had for about 45 years. I know that is could also be used as a weapon, it was really heavy. I told young people that we used to have appliances like that, built to last a really long time and what you did was repair them. Students looked at her and said what is this repair you speak of" - Rosalind Wyatt Mentors Ros didn't really have anyone who opened any doors or influenced her in this journey. But you do meet people along the way that encourage you that are already in that space. Ros mentioned a lady she worked with along the way who was determined to have a LEED certified retail store. She wasn't in academia but she inspired Ros and her students to do better and to continue learning. "If we are doing a project with a local business, I like to take them there. I like for them to go on site. Don't just listen to the person come and speak to you, go and see what they see, what they see from their perspective, talk to their customers." - Rosalind Wyatt Book Recommendations Drawdown by Paul Hawken The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein 150 Years of ObamaCare by Daniel E. Dawes Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Rosalind Wyatt's amazing journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Rosalind Wyatt: LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Chris Webb is a licensed professional engineer (civil) in the States of Washington, Oregon, California, and a LEED™ Fellow and Accredited Professional (ND & BD+C) whose passion and technical expertise is focused on providing civil engineering designs that demonstrate the highest degree of sustainability and are based on ecological principles. Chris is a frequent speaker on the technical aspects of sustainability as it is applied in civil engineering. Chris' sustainable development project experience includes working with many local and state governments, private and public entities, utilities, and non-profit groups.He works as part of diverse design teams across the spectrum of project scales from the single lot to large multi-unit developments and from master planning through permitting and construction documents across many building and site types. The Early Days with Chris Chris grew up in northern New Jersey and was really active outdoors which lead to an early connection with the environment. He then went to the University of New Hampshire and studied civil engineering. "The University of New Hampshire now is a leader in research and development on green stormwater infrastructure. But at the time that I went there, green infrastructure was not really a thing yet. So it's been fun to run into some of my old professors at a low impact development conferences and talk about that." - Chris Webb Sustainability Minded Chris went to school for engineering and focused more on structural and had yet to resolve his personal values of the environment with his career. Chris then took a job a few years out of school where he continued to work with structural engineering at a nuclear power plant. He then moved out to the west coast to pursue a career in green engineering which wasn't as obvious of a career choice as it is today. "One day I was at the nuclear power plant and went into an area where there was some contamination apparently. I think I picked up some contamination on my clothing and site containment there and came out and set off all the alarms that I picked up some contamination and they kept my clothes and I walked out of there in a paper jumpsuit and I was 24 years old. That was definitely a moment where, you know, maybe it's time to resolve my environmental ethic with my career and quit my job." - Chris Webb Early Influencers Chris served on the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild Board of Directors and became connected with Kathleen O'Brien, Kurt Stafford, Rob Harrison and the green community. Others in the cadre such as Tom Pallidino, Richie Athens, Patty Southard were early adopters in the area and they became a cohort . Chris was always getting great advice "I'd always planned on getting a master's degree and had talked to Stuart Cowan who had written the book Ecological Design. And he gave me some really good advice, which was hey, look, you're tapping into something that's changing really rapidly. And at that time, there were not really any graduate programs that were sufficiently advanced to really capture the rapid change that was happening. There's some really great programs to jump into. So I was given advice to basically by him, he had gotten his PhD and he gave me advice rather than going back to school, you should really seek out those people whose work you admire in those projects that you really think are awesome and just go to them and just directly learn. So that is what I did." - Chris Webb Book Recommendations Getting Things Done by David Allen Podcast Recommendations 99% Invisible Hidden Brain Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Chris Webb's amazing journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Chris Webb: LinkedIn A Manifesto on Working with Water Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a nationally acclaimed authority on sustainability and design innovation, is a Design Director and the Global Co-Director of Design Resilience with Gensler. His latest book, 'The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design' (Island Press, 2012), the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, won a 2013 New York Book Show award, was a 2014 finalist for the National Urban Design Awards Book of the Year, and has been Amazon's #1 bestseller for sustainable design. In 2017, Environmental Buildings News listed it as one of the books "all designers must read." A popular public speaker, Lance has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events. Lance has chaired the USGBC's LEED Advisory Committee and served on the National Advisory Group for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE), and as of 2016 he was one of only thirty people in the world named as Fellows with both organizations. In 2018, he won the AIA's Sarah Booth Conroy Prize. Growing Up and College Lance grew up in Texas, spending half of his childhood in El Paso. He spent the last half of his childhood in the suburbs of Houston which gave him a sense of how communities should not be developed. Lance went to High School for performing and visual arts and then went to New York and earned a B.A. in Architecture at Columbia University and went on to Yale for his Masters in Architecture. "So I have this sort of primal memory of wandering around in a very specific landscape, one that's fairly harsh. I liked the combination of that, of those two experiences from my childhood because I kind of got a sense of what it's like to be in a unique environment while also being in a very generic environment." - Lance Hosey Sustainability Minded Lance studied jazz at his high school of performing and visual arts and played the sax and piano. Playing was instrumental in his career and his thinking throughout the rest of his life because there was so much emphasis in sustainable design and on integrative and multidisciplinary collaboration. "This place was an early environment where I really got immersed in that kind of approach. There's all the different art areas. We're encouraged to collaborate. And it was such an incredible environment and so creative and very diverse, a lot of my thinking later in my career about how we stimulate creativity and innovation comes from that early experience." - Lance Hosey Mentors Bill McDonough was a mentor early in Lance's career. He then mentions Bo Burkabile was the original chair of the committee. He never worked for him, but he got to know him through the AIA and Lance thinks that he is one of the leading lights of all of this, not just because of the interest in sustainability, but also just such a great soul, a really great example of someone who can be a motivator but also be a really terrific down to earth person. Susan Maximin also served as a mentor, she is retired now, but she was the first female president of the American Institute of Architects, but Lance shares she was also the first to embrace sustainability as something that the AIA should be thinking about. The theme of her tenure was sustainability. Proudest Achievements Lance is proudest of his book that came out in 2012, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design. The book is dedicated to the aesthetics of sustainable design and contains a lot of the ideas that are already being talked about. "What does it mean for experience and joy and and the things you can actually see and touch and feel and a building. What does sustainability mean for those things?" - Lance Hosey Book Recommendations The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design by Lance Hosey The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Lance Hosey's amazing journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Lance Hosey: LinkedIn www.lancehosey.com Twitter: @lancehosey Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited that our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES

Holley Henderson is the founder of H2 Ecodesign which has led over 4 million square feet of successful green building certifications worldwide including several firsts in China and Thailand. She has served in a variety of leadership positions for the National U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED Steering, Market, and Education Committees. Holley is author of the book "Becoming a Green Building Professional." A frequently sought speaker on sustainable design issues, Holley provides engaging presentations and trainings for numerous annual meetings, conferences, companies, professional associations, and universities. The Early Days with Holley Holley grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She went to Auburn University School of Architecture. After college, Holley lived in Atlanta for about 20 years, and she is now back in Birmingham to be closer to family. Holley spent 10 years in the convention market sector where she could scale and increase the magnitude of projects, which was her specialty. "I feel so blessed to have had the experience of working at TVS. It is a pretty large firm. It still is a pretty large firm, but at the time There were about 200 people in Atlanta, and it was a magnificent foundation for early education and best practices in the field and had a great infrastructure. Some of my best friends and mentors are still from there." - Holley Henderson Sustainability Minded Holley's interest in sustainability started in college at Auburn. She had her early epiphany with an environmental biology teacher who was a big influence and then it evolved during her 10 years in the convention market sector as she observed the waste. She knew there had to be a better way. That was part of the catalyst of moving into the environmental realm. "I also heard Ray Anderson speak about overhead transparencies. That is when it all kind of came together for me." - Holley Henderson Transition From Architecture Firms Holley worked for Interface for a short time and discovered that they did indeed walk the walk and were very true to form. She saw some really remarkable things there and considered her time there as her transition from an architecture firm to her own company. "I had no history in my own family of anyone owning their own company. It was a foreign concept to me really. When you come from the architectural interior design it's a fantastic background and has a billable mentality which has been very helpful in my business." - Holley Henderson Proudest Achievements Holley discusses that one of her proudest achievements is learning to be a better listener which is still an evolving process and secondly, she loves the education side of what she does. Holley's most rewarding project was working with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta to create an Ipod walking tour. "The more I can help others to understand good stewardship of our planet, efficiencies, and taking the next step in their journey... all of those things are really exciting to me." - Holley Henderson Book Recommendations Becoming a Green Professional by Holley Henderson Emotional Agility by Susan David Tim Ferriss Podcast Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Holley Henderson's amazing journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie. Connect with Holley Henderson: LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2019 GBES