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Changemakers: Shawn Hunter - Lifecycle Assessment by USGBC

Becoming content experts with the LEED Green Associate credential by USGBC

This episode features sustainability business leader Greg Kats, President of Capital E, an investment and industry transformation firm founded to help organisation's strive towards clean energy and a lower carbon footprint. He is joined by USGBC's Elizabeth Beardsley as they discuss sustainable strategy, urban resilience, smart surfaces, and the promise of a low carbon economy.

For this episode, we are taking you inside a special TalentFX session (from Greenbuild 2016) featuring a conversation with Akom; Brendan Owens, Chief of Engineering at USGBC; Tessa Cruz, Program Manager for I-SEED; and Karla Ortiz, Youth Organizer with the East Los Angeles Women's Center. The discussion revealed why it’s important to make sustainability serve everyone, and how we can start doing that today.

Climate Leaders: David Renné on renewable energy and the climate change economy [podcast] by USGBC

Pioneers of PEER: Upper Limits of Performance with Paul O'Neill [podcast] by USGBC

In this episode of our Climate Leaders podcast series, we talk with Hamid Moghadam, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Prologis. Prologis is the global leader in industrial logistics real estate, whose strategic focus on global and regional markets has them managing, owning, or developing approximately 671 million square feet (62 million square meters) valued around $57.3 billion in total assets.

In addition to his current role with Prologis, Moghadam has previously served as trustee and member of the board’s executive committee for the Urban Land Institute, as well as chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the Real Estate Investment Trust Political Action Committee. In 2013, he received the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Overall Award and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Within this episode, we discuss:

In this episode of Climate Leaders, we talk with Anne Kelly, senior program director for public policy and director of the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) program at Ceres. Ceres is a nonprofit coalition of businesses and investors who seek to actively promote leadership and best practices in sustainability. In her role as head of the BICEP program, Kelly champions the path to meaningful climate and energy policy at a federal level.

We discuss: Laws that help make progress toward a low-carbon economy : What a 21st century utility infrastructure could and should look like : The building and real estate sector’s vital role in combating climate change and pushing for a more sustainable future.

Stephen Ritz is a public school teacher in the poorest congressional district in America. Stephen was a top ten finalist in the Global Teacher Prize, "The Nobel Peace Prize of Teaching," and his work has been featured on major TV networks, TED.com and in best-selling author Michael Pollan’s newest documentary.

Show notes:

The unlimited potential of Las Vegas

“I hate being bipolar. It’s awesome"

Celebrating local heroes

How Stephen became such a good speaker

One thing you can do right now to be a better speaker

Why it wasn’t about changing the world

Stephen’s unbelievable energy without sleep at 6am

The TED effect & immigration

The importance of being an accessible resource

What Stephen has learned from being recognized

How to turn a problems into an opportunity

The magic rules

Why he refuses to call Green Bronx Machine a nonprofit

What the whole green schools movement is all about

Lessons from a startup founder in his 50s

How GBM provides students health benefits and living wages

How Stephen's elementary school kids are helping their parents get living wage green jobs

Stephen’s remarkable leadership philosophy

How Stephen attracted 400 applicants to a poor public school

Advice for the hyper-ambitious striving to be the next 30 under 30, or 40 under 40

Realizing God given genetic potential regardless of zip code and skin color

If you wan’t to move forward you don’t spend a lot of time looking at the rear view mirror

Stephen and Rukesh’s personal tragedies & overcoming adversity

Loosing 100 lbs & personal sustainability

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