Elizabeth Hewitt analyzes the social factors that play into our decisions towards recycling, energy usage, and waste management. Host Heather Lynch and Hewitt, associate professor in the Department of Technology and Society, discuss how these factors influence pro-environmental behavior and how they can be mitigated through urban planning. Hewitt emphasizes how more collective behavior towards climate change needs to occur, especially in urban environments.

Learn more with:

• China’s National Sword Policy

• U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED System

• Congestion Pricing in New York City

• An Inconvenient Truth 

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• 0:00 Introduction to Energy Efficient Retrofitting

• 00:59 Welcome to C4E Presents

• 01:28 Introducing Elizabeth Hewitt

• 01:50 Recycling Behavior and Peer Pressure

• 04:31 Challenges in Recycling Practices

• 08:55 Sustainable Buildings and Green Standards

• 11:15 Home Energy Audits and Retrofitting

• 21:00 Electric Vehicles and Market Dynamics

• 22:26 Congestion Pricing in New York City

• 24:18 Environmental Concerns and Future Actions

• 26:06 Conclusion and Next Episode Preview

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C4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.

Host: Heather Lynch

Editor: J.D. Allen

Producer: Rachel Lea 

Program manager: Jennifer Gilday