“I think it’s hard to talk about green building broadly without focusing on climate change specifically and the imperative. And some of my internal debates are around, does climate change trump all other things right now?”  Jeff Ranson In this podcast I…

“Climate change, it’s not partisan – it’s our future! We have all the solutions out there to implement to start solving the climate crisis. It’s not about doing more research into these problems. It’s about people saying to our leaders: “You need to address…

“I think as a profession [architects] we need to be more vocal, and we need to be making bold and emphatic statements about things that we think are positive and things that we think are negative.”  Jim Taggart If you are at all familiar with the building…

“You show people a big tree – it doesn’t matter where they’re from or what age – they’re moved by how profound and beautiful it is.”  Eric Davies Eric Davies is one of the Canadian media’s most sought-after experts when it comes to trees, urban forests, and…

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”  Margaret Mead In this episode I had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Wendy Pentland, a personal coach, and a recently…

“Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army… Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later; sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions…

“We’ve now reached the twelfth and final episode for 2018! It’s been a real pleasure producing this series! I’ve learned a lot, as I hope you have! So thanks very much for tuning in!” Craig Applegath When I launched the podcast, I had no idea how many people…

“The future beckons us to repair, to restore, to maintain, to reserve resources, to rethink our fundamental imagination of where we should live and how we should live.” Rahul Mehrotra In this podcast I had the great pleasure of interviewing Rahul Mehrotra. I…

“In terms of what’s actually scary? For me… it’s how do we feed our population? How do we feed the next generation? That’s an open-ended question that, I think, if you think down the road, the consequences of that are not pretty.” Peter Howard In this…

“About 20% of the human’s contribution to carbon in the atmosphere is from how we’re treating our forests!”  Dale Prest In this podcast I talk with Dale Prest, CEO of the Climate Forest Company (CFC). We talk about the global carbon cycle and our future…

“My advice would be look for small but tangible ways to get involved, different organizations, different community groups, even just having conversations with people who might have a different perspective and opinion than yours, but trying to find that…

“We need to say enough is enough in the way in which we plan and imagine, design our cities. We need to stop talking about diversity and actually make it happen.” Pamela Robinson “We need to say enough is enough in the way in which we plan and imagine,…