NEW! CREtech Climate Podcast

NEW! CREtech Climate Podcast

The CREtech Climate Cast is a podcast series devoted to educating, inspiring, and leading the built environment to address the world’s biggest crisis - climate change. Tune in to in-depth conversations with the leading real estate and tech innovators from across the globe with CREtech Climate CEO, Michael Beckerman. The series will host conversations on how the real estate and tech tech sectors are driving transformational change to decarbonize the Built World.

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NEW! CREtech Climate Podcast
  • Juliette Morgan - A New Age of Energy Production and Composting of Life

    Juliette Morgan, ESG Consultancy Director of Gensler delves deep into why the built environment should take responsibility for its impact on the planet. Juliette explores indigenous communities inspiring living in harmony with nature and reducing consumption.

    Despite the availability of solutio...

  • Hélène Chartier - Sustainably Transforming Cities

    Hélène Chartier, Director of Urban Planning and Design of C40 discusses C40 cities collaboration between the largest cities, improving and accelerating their climate policies and action plans. There is an agreement on the emission of cities from buildings including transport and imported impacts,...

  • Charlie Green - Timber Building at Scale for a Sustainable Future

    Charlie Green, Co-Founder and President of The Office Group unveils the fascinating story of the construction of London's largest timber building, exploring the driving factors behind this bold endeavor, from the carefully chosen materials to the profound positive impacts on the environment.

    G...

  • Kunal Lunawat - Driving New And Diverse Perspectives

    Kunal Lunawat, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Ayga Ventures explores investing in the "bits" (software) and "atoms" (materials), recognizing the symbiotic relationship between the two. Explore the challenges of securing capital for hardware ventures and gain insights into the emerging category ...

  • Brian Swett - The Playbook For Sustainability

    Brian Swett, Americas East Leader of Arup shares the profound impact of Arup's consulting expertise through case studies on commercial owners, developers, and other stakeholders embarking on their journey to establish ESG strategies and embedding sustainability into their culture, setting the sta...

  • Joseph Allen - Unmasking Sick Buildings

    In this podcast episode, Joseph Allen, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shares his passion for sustainability and discusses the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program. He delves into the impact of "Sick Building Syndrome" on health and introduces his book, "Healthy Buildings." Allen als...

  • Lauren Moss - The Path to Carbon Neutrality

    Lauren Moss, Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer at Vornado Realty Trust highlights the visionary approach behind Vornado's ESG strategy, expanding upon key elements that drive their sustainable initiatives for carbon neutrality, waste diversion, water reduction, and the pivotal r...

  • Juan Francisco Palacios - The Interplay of Buildings and Health

    Juan Francisco Palacios, Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT Center for Real Estate delves into the profound relationship between buildings and their impact on human health and well-being. With the majority of our time spent indoors, the quality of the air we breathe and the comfort of the temper...

  • Anand Srinivasan - Risk of Inaction & What can I do

    Join us in this episode as Anand Srinivasan, an Executive at CoreLogic, delves into the world of real estate solutions. Discover their data-driven strategies for risk assessment and sustainability. Uncover insights into their mission-aligned approach, powered by cutting-edge technologies and anal...

  • Joe Sumberg - Mobilizing Sustainability

    In this podcast episode, Joe Sumberg, Managing Partner at Galvanize Climate Solutions, delves into the company's sustainability mission and investment strategies. He highlights the role of real estate in decarbonization and introduces the innovative GOLD tool for identifying eco-friendly investme...

  • Ariel Shtarkman - Sustainable Solution Investment Unwrapped

    Ariel Shtarkman, Managing Partner of Undivided Ventures shares the driving factors behind Undivided Ventures' investment decisions shedding light on why they specifically choose to invest in Property Tech and Construct Tech solutions that pave the way to a sustainable future. Ariel expresses her ...

  • Sonu Panda - A Prescription of Healthier and More Sustainable Buildings

    Sonu Panda, CEO of Prescriptive Data unpacks how Prescriptive Data, and its flagship Nantum OS product, acts as a catalyst for sustainable buildings and more profitable real estate operations, while outlining the company’s future roadmap.

  • Rao Mulpuri - A Different View into Building Sustainability

    Rao Mulpuri, CEO of View, Inc, discusses some of the measurable impacts that View provides both in terms of health and wellness as well as energy efficiency, how View is being used in the context of occupant experience, which markets the company is operating in and how it has achieved such impres...

  • Carl Brooks - Global Footprint, Global Accolades

    Carl Brooks, Global Head of ESG - Property Management at CBRE walks us through how technology is a key sustainability driving force, how CBRE is leveraging technology to reduce carbon emissions in buildings, discusses key takeaways and achievements in regards to CBRE’s own 2040 net-zero carbon em...

  • Samantha Kempe - Next-Gen Sustainable Residential Real Estate

    Samantha Kempe, Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer of IMMO sheds light on the company’s mission, discusses why retrofitting the UK’s building stock via the SFR market is so important, and shares IMMO’s unique approach to acquiring buildings, upgrading their energy efficiency and renting them o...

  • Peter Merrigan - Sustainability Meets Real Estate Private Equity

    Peter Merrigan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Taurus Investment Holdings LLC, a real estate private equity firm with an active deal footprint spanning 30 global markets, shares the firm’s global view on ESG and its impact on dealflow, how the firm’s renewable energy investment s...

  • Christian Weeks - Addressing Indoor Air Quality in Sustainability and Well-Being

    Christian Weeks, CEO of enVerid Systems, walks us through how the company solves indoor air quality issues, the importance of having experienced climate tech investors and advisors on your cap table, as well as how the company gained traction in getting the real estate industry to embrace sustain...

  • Julie Hirigoyen - Leaving a Mark on The Green Building Revolution

    Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive of UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) walks us through building sustainability, resilience in respect of climate change, making the ROI case for real estate companies to embrace sustainability, as well as sharing some highlights from the UKGBC’s Whole Life Carbon R...

  • Jared Della Valle - Pairing Technology and Sustainability with Development

    Jared Della Valle, CEO of Alloy Development sheds light on the sustainability practices that have been weaved into the company’s design, development and advisory practice as well as how technology plays an increasingly important role in these sustainability initiatives within both Alloy and the b...

  • Shana Schlossberg - Onwards and Upwards Decarbonizing the Built World

    Shana Schlossberg, CEO of Upward Labs discusses what drives her as a serial entrepreneur across industries, walks us through the launch of the Net Zero Lab, how startups can get involved, as well as unpacking some of the most illuminating startups emerging to tackle the real estate industry’s out...

  • Dana Robbins Schneider - Sustainability From The Top Of The Empire State

    Dana Robbins Schneider, SVP, Director of Energy, Sustainability and ESG for Empire State Realty Trust shares some of the company’s portfolio sustainability milestones, discusses highlights from the "Empire Building Playbook: An Owner's Guide for Low Carbon Retrofits”, as well as Dana’s experience...

  • Clemens Brenninkmeijer - Sustainable Urban Real Estate

    Clemens Brenninkmeijer, Head of Sustainability, Redevco BV shares why sustainability is such an integral part of the company, how it’s been integrated throughout the company’s DNA, as well as Redevco’s strategic approach to ESG.

  • Guy Grainger - Frontier Technologies Pushing Global Real Estate Decarbonization

    Guy Grainger, Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG at JLL characterizes this present moment in time in respect of the global real estate sustainability movement, underscores some of the milestones achieved in JLL’s own enterprise-wide net-zero carbon emissions goals, highlights frontier...

  • Mazyar Mortazavi - Real Estate as a Tool to Drive Profit & Impact

    Mazyar Mortazavi, President and CEO, TAS, shares how an “unconventional impact company” balances profit and impact in tandem, sheds light on the ESG market in Canada, and discusses the four pillars of TAS’ recently published inaugural Annual Impact Report.