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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Robert Otani - Implementing a Sustainability Philosophy
Robert Otani, Chief Technology Officer at Thornton Tomasetti, shares an overview of their Healthy Reentry App they built during the pandemic, where their sustainability philosophy and commitment evolved from and how they implemented this into the culture at Thornton Tomassetti.
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JP Flaherty - A Decade of Investing in Sustainability
Jonathan Flaherty, Global Head of Sustainability and Building Technology Innovation, at Tishman Speyer, discusses measuring ROI from the perspective of running buildings as efficiently as possible, how Tishman Speyer are planning for the future and highlights from their most recent sustainability...
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Brad Klatt - Real Estate Mindset to Smart Building Tech
Brad Klatt, Co-Founder & Chairman of Logical Buildings, discusses how the experience of being in the real estate industry as Co-Founder of Roseland Property Company, gave insights into how to build and scale Logical Buildings in a way that addresses the core challenges that landlords face today. ...
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Michael Rudin - Driving Sustainability into Investment Portfolios
Executive Vice President at Rudin Management, Michael Rudin, discusses his family’s long tradition of leading by example and their commitment to sustainable development, the role that the public sector plays in addressing climate change and NYC as a Mecca of innovation.
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Deepinder Singh - Lessons Learned Along The Way
Deepinder Singh, Founder and CEO of 75F, discusses the formation of the company, the problem they set out to solve, lessons learnt along the way and what it means to have their investors involved in the company and helping them to scale their platform.
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Brian Sudler - Leading the Way in Sustainable Development
Brian Sudler, Principal at Sudler Companies talks about how his and his family's military background and public service also spurred the company’s commitment to serving the greater community and sustainability. Brian also discusses in-depth about adopting new, green technologies, and shares advic...
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Fionnuala Hogan - Supporting Sustainable Start-ups
Fionnuala Hogan, Creator of RElab and Head of Early Stage Investing at Goldacre Ventures, takes a deep dive into their RElab 2021 scale-up program, which focuses on the themes of sustainability and construction technology, what start-ups they are looking for to join their unique program and lesso...
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Matt Ellis - Transparency in CRE ESG Reporting
Founder & CEO of Measurabl, Matt Ellis sits down with CREtech’s CEO, Michael Beckerman, to discuss why data analysis capability is critical in helping companies make a meaningful impact when it comes to implementing a solid ESG strategy and reducing their carbon footprint. Matt also provides an o...
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Kathy Hannun - Tackling Climate Crisis with Geothermal Solutions
Kathy Hannun, Co-Founder & President of Dandelion, takes a deep dive into how their geothermal solutions are tackling the climate crisis, scaling their solution without sacrificing customer experience and quality, and how Dandelion’s investors help with opportunities and challenges ahead from bot...
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Gregory Dewerpe - Addressing Climate Change, One Investment At A Time
A/O PropTech’s Founder, Gregory Dewerpe, shares insights into entering the venture world, investment strategies as it relates to climate tech and what shaped his commitment and passion for sustainability and climate change.
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Anthony Hickling - Decarbonizing the Built Environment
Anthony Hickling, Managing Director at the Carbon Leadership Forum, gives a brief background to the genesis of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where their support comes from as a non-profit organization, and specific investments and strategies that building owners and operators can use to decrease t...
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Reimagining and Innovating Urban Tech - Nicole LeBlanc
Nicole LeBlanc, Partner, Platform at 2150, provides an overview of 2150’s fund focusing on urbantech, their renowned founding partners, and their ‘Brain Trust’ advisory board. Nicole also shares insights into investing across the Urban Stack and why cities are important for the world of real esta...
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CREtech Climate - Lindsay Baker
Lindsey Baker, a world renowned environmentalist, sits down with Michael Beckerman to discuss the major role that buildings play in global carbon emissions, and talk more about what steps the industry is currently taking to address the evolving climate crisis, while also addressing best practices...
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CREtech Climate - Stacy Smedley
Building Transparency’s Executive Director, Stacy Smedley joins the CREtech Climate Cast to explain her role in helping to develop the Embodied Carbon in Construction calculator (EC3), and how organizations are benefiting from strategically tracking and benchmarking their carbon footprint.
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CREtech Climate - Anushka Grant
In this CREtech Climate Cast episode, Anushka Grant, Vice President of Business Transformation and Platform Services at Oxford Properties Group unpacks the tools that have made Oxford Properties so successful in climate tech implementation and adoption.
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CREtech Climate - Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay, the Director of Applied Research at NewCities dives into top issues that urban leaders are facing today and how those leaders are addressing them. Lindsey also addresses the state of cities today and how cities across the globe are starting to think more holistically about the impac...
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CREtech Climate - Marta Schantz
Marta Schantz, Senior Vice President of the Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the Urban Land Institute chats with CREtech’s CEO Michael Beckerman about the industry’s recent appetite for sustainable investments and decarbonizing the built environment. Schantz also unpacks the work of ...
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CREtech Climate - Mark Grinis
Mark Grinis, Global Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Leader at EY discusses how EY has been leading the way in addressing the climate crisis, while discussing how other organizations can follow suit in adopting best practices to decarbonize their portfolios.
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CREtech Climate - Greg Smithies
In this episode, Greg Smithies, Partner and leader for Fifth Wall’s Climate Technology Investment team, elaborates on the industry’s role in addressing climate change. Smithies and Beckerman also dive further into opportunities, challenges, and trends that the industry is facing now, and how the ...
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CREtech Climate - Miranda Massie
Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum in New York, sits down with CREtech’s CEO Michael Beckerman to discuss what led to the founding and development of the Climate Museum. Through the in-depth conversation, Massie unpacks how she hopes the Climate Museum will help to educate and inspire...
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CREtech Climate - Brad Dockser
Brad Dockser, Founder & CEO of Green Generation chats with CREtech’s CEO Michael Beckerman about what motivates investors to invest in sustainable technologies. Dockser and Beckerman also unpack how the geopolitical landscape shift has encouraged more investors to look deeper into climate technol...
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CREtech Climate - Albert Slap
Albert Slap, President of Coastal Risk Consulting, joins the CREtech Climate Cast to share with listeners the importance of protecting existing infrastructure from the impacts of climate related events, while offering risk management best-practice solutions to enhance portfolios at large.
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CREtech Climate - Robert Niven
In this CREtech Climate Cast episode, CREtech’s CEO Michael Beckerman sits down with Robert Niven, CEO & Founder of CarbonCure - the first ever technology for the concrete industry that introduces recycled CO₂ into fresh concrete to reduce its carbon footprint without compromising performance. To...
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CREtech Climate - Kate Frucher
Kate Frucher, Managing Director of The Clean Fight sits down with Michael Beckerman to discuss the biggest challenges facing the real estate industry in adopting new technologies to scale within the marketplace.