Mighty Buildings Podcast

Daryl Fairweather is the Chief Economist of Redfin. Prior to joining Redfin she was a senior economist at Amazon working on problems related to employee engagement and managing a team of analysts. During the housing crisis, Daryl worked as a researcher at the Boston Fed studying why homeowners entered foreclosure. Daryl received her Bachelor's of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her Ph.D. and Master's degrees in economics at the University of Chicago where she specialized in behavioral economics. Follow her on Twitter @FairweatherPhD.

As the current CEO of the International Living Future Institute, Lindsay Baker is the organization’s chief strategist, charged with delivering on its mission to lead the transformation toward a civilization that is socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative. Her introduction to the green building movement began at the Southface Institute in Atlanta, where she interned before entering Oberlin College to earn a BA in Environmental Studies. Lindsay is a Senior Fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute, and a lecturer at UC Berkeley. She serves on several non-profit boards, and is an advisor and board member for numerous climate tech startups.

Rick Cole is the Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism which advocates for the architecture of community in America’s cities and towns. He also teaches urban policy at Occidental College. He spent thirty years in public service, including stints as Deputy Mayor for the City of Los Angeles and City Manager in three California communities, Santa Monica, Ventura, and Azusa.

In this episode, we learn more about Dr Shawn Hunter's aspiration to drive the transition to a sustainable planet and society through the power of business leadership. He currently leads the business sustainability program and its contribution to the DuPont 2030 Sustainability Goals.

As global sustainability leader for the DuPont Shelter Solutions business, he is responsible for setting the sustainability vision for the business and driving the strategy to advance the vision.

Chris is the CEO at Globescan and works with leadership organizations to help them better understand and respond to shifting stakeholder expectations, build trust with key constituencies, and exert greater influence in shaping the future. Chris comes with two decades of experience in providing evidence-based counsel in the areas of reputation, purpose, and sustainability. He is passionate about building trusted and recognized leadership for GlobeScan’s clients.

In this episode, we speak to Paul Shahriari, Chief Innovation Officer at Ecomedes about his journey as one of the first people in the US to become a LEED accredited professional and 5 years being a US Green Building Council’s faculty member.

Ecomedes is a data platform that leverages product performance data to simplify green decision making aligned with Sustainability and ESGs. Ecomedes streamlines the analysis of economic and environmental impacts for anyone looking to make better data-driven decisions.

In this episode, Mira Inbar (a Partner with ArcTern Ventures, a venture capital fund which invests in early-stage climate technologies) interviews Mighty Buildings' very own Chief Sustainability Officer & Co-Founder Sam Ruben. Learn more about his journey before Mighty Buildings and what's next for the company.

In this episode, we learn more about Stonly's journey and experience as a co-founder of Urban Us. Urban Us is the leading early stage investor for startups upgrading cities for climate and is ranked one of the top early stage fund in Climate Tech in North America by Climate50.

In this episode, Eve shares her journey from leading Small Change to hosting her own podcast. Eve is the founder of Small Change, a real estate equity crowdfunding platform that raises funds for meaningful real estate projects building better cities everywhere. Like Kickstarter for real estate—but with a return. They match developers to investors, providing investment opportunities for everyone who cares about cities and wants to make change. All through a fluid and compliant technology platform.

In 2005, Aaron dropped out of college and responded to Hurricane Katrina with the Red Cross. Later that year, he took his first job in construction as the least skilled worker at a day company in the Reno-Tahoe Area. In this podcast, Aaron shares about where he started to where he is today.