Izumi Tanaka

Home Green Homes

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This channel explores affordable, resilient, and sustainable homes through conversations with green building professionals, architects, designers, homeowners, developers, and real estate professionals. Topics include green building, energy-efficient homes, electrification, climate-resilient housing, and future-ready real estate. The podcast is for homeowners, buyers, and realtors interested in sustainable real estate, as well as builders and designers working at the intersection of affordability, resilience, and climate-conscious living. Episodes highlight real-world projects, practical strate...

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Izumi Tanaka

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1.4 What is Eco-Friendly Interior Design? - Erica Reiner, Eco Method Interiors 27.06.2019 29:31

Erica Reiner is the owner - principal of Eco Method Interiors, where her company helps families and businesses through a unique eco-friendly approach to interior design. Through her former career in environmental business and environmental education as well as a lifetime of creating and studying interior design, Erica combined her two passions to create this unique business in 2014. Since then, Er...

1.3 How I Made My "Bad Ass" Green Home Inexpensively - Robert Fortunato, Green Idea Hose 19.06.2019 30:00

Robert Fortunato is the President of ForStrategy Consulting, and Owner/Builder of the Green Idea House in Hermosa Beach. He is a trusted advisor to businesses, developers and non-profits, helping them scale solutions that are less costly and better for our health, lifestyle, economy and the environment. In 2012 Robert designed and general contracted the multiple award winning Green Idea House, one...

1.2 What You Need to Know About Energy Efficiency Upgrade 06.06.2019 27:19

While energy efficiency alone doesn't make your home all green, it is the most commonly integrated element of "green homes" mostly due to the leading edge of building codes in California requiring higher standard of efficiency. Yet there are so much information to know what would be the best way to upgrade the energy efficiency of your home, what types of incentives there are, what do the solar pa...

1.1 Green Home 101 23.05.2019 27:21

This is the first episode, and I could not start this podcast without having my green home guru, Marla Esser, as a guest. Marla is THE green home coach and the author of a book, “Living Green Effortlessly, Simple Choices for a Better Home,” and a host of her own podcast, “Green Gab,” which is how I found her. She inspires and educates about how green practices and homes help people to have safer,...