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The Daniel Residence is a modern re-interpretation of the shotgun typology responding to both the owner's Louisiana roots and the long narrow nature of her property. Visitors enter past the formal sitting room into a central vestibule which flows in an enfilade procession between kitchen / dining and the sitting. In section, 11' and 13' ceilings and extensive glazed openings offset the compact planimetric constraints of the site. Beyond the public spaces, a u-shaped stepped retaining system receives the intertwined forms of the principal suite and pool with the principal bedroom occupying a special place of prospect, looking out to the waterline. Back at the vestibule, a floating steel stair takes visitors to the second floor living space where the procession flows to an oversized screened porch overlooking Austin's downtown skyline.April has over 16 years of professional experience in architecture and design specializing in sustainable projects. She has designed award winning residential, commercial and institutional projects ranging in scale from large campus projects to smaller single building and residential projects. April's research and experience in sustainable design has been published internationally. Previous commercial and institutional clients have included the University of New Mexico, Institute of American Indian Arts and Girls Inc. In a desire to focus solely on sustainable projects, April launched Clark | Richardson Architects with her partner Ed Richardson, in 2009. Many firms have a design sensibility that is either traditional or modern or somewhere in between. We have done it all. C|R approaches each project individually, looking at the needs and desires of the client, individual aspects of the site and the climate of the area and creates a design that brings it all together arriving at the most elegant solution possible. C|R designs sustainable renovation, residential and commercial projects with the goal of creating holistic experiences through form, sustainability and attention to detail.Ed Richardson is originally from New Orleans and has practiced architecture in Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Texas. He specializes in custom residential and commercial architecture. He studied architecture on at both Yale University, where he was awarded the Blanning Prize, the Parsons Memorial Medal and a merit scholarship, and the University of Virginia. Ed has instructed both undergraduate and advanced studio courses at the University of Texas and University of New Mexico. Ed was the editor of the 39th edition of Perspecta, the Yale Architecture Journal, titled Re_Urbanism (MIT, 2007) which investigates the transformation of capital cities in the era of globalization. He has also contributed articles to MONU, Texas Architect and MasContext. He was a participant / winning entrant in AIA DesCours 2010 in New Orleans and was a panelist in the inaugural 2011 SXSW Eco conference on the topic of biomimetics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ellen Mitchell-Kozack, AIA, LEED BD+C, WELL AP, SEED, has joined LEO A DALY as vice president, chief sustainability officer. She leads strategic initiatives in sustainable design worldwide, including Environmental Social & Governance, alignment with the UN Global Compact and Sustainable Development Goals, carbon footprint assessment and social impact.  Mitchell-Kozack is a nationally recognized voice in sustainability and public interest design. As senior vice president, director of sustainability at HKS, she led the firm’s DesignGreen studio and founded Citizen HKS, an impact initiative focused on leveraging sustainable design to address growing humanitarian needs of communities around the world. She has managed certification of more than 60 LEED projects worldwide, totaling $2.8 billion in construction. Mitchell-Kozack is co-chair of the American Institute of Architects’ Large Firm Roundtable Sustainability Group. She was named one of several “Heroes and Mavericks” by Boutique Designin 2018, a BD+C 40 Under 40 winner in 2015 and has won Emerging Leader Awards from AIA Dallas (2012) and the Design Futures Council (2013). Her work has been featured in Dezeen, Fast Company, Architectural Digest and Designboom. She is an accomplished public speaker with previous engagements at Greenbuild (2018), NeoCon (2018), AIA National Convention (2017) and SXSW Eco (2015). Ellen Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: The impact of the built environment on climate change, and areas for growth The connection between climate change and social inequity Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Ellen's Final Five Question Responses: What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? It's not just sustainability professionals. It's anybody who is sensitive to what's going on with climate change and the environment, it's very easy for us to feel this sense of alarm. That's inevitable. But what happens sometimes is that sense of alarm translates into call to action and a passion, which is great. But if not approached with the spirit of generosity and patience, that passion and drive can often come across as a little bit sanctimonious. When that happens, we channel our enthusiasm into a level of judgment that can turn people off and actually work against us. So the advice that I have is that we have to look at the long game. We have to meet people where they are. We have to realize that if we're too far ahead, then nobody's going to follow us. It's really hard when you just see incremental progress happen project after project after project. But what I've learned is that sometimes that has to be enough. We can't let perfect be the enemy of good. This is a marathon and not a sprint. So we have to be very self aware and sensitive, and we have to be smart and crafty and thoughtful about how we are approaching this topic because it is politicized and it comes with a set of baggage that is working against us. There's an art of persuasion here that is really crucial if we want to get beyond just talking to the people who already agree with us. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I want you to ask me the next question because I want to answer both of them together.  What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read?  The book that fundamentally changed the way that I thought about sustainability was Paul Hawkins' The Ecology of Commerce, which came out in the mid-nineties. It's maybe more relevant today. The basic premise is that in the capitalist society and the way that our economy is currently structured, companies are incentivized, for lack of a better word, to as efficiently and cheaply as possible take, make and waste. The companies that can do that the best are the ones that make the most profit while the rest of us are incurring the debt of environmental degradation and social degradation. Those things aren't monetized, but we are carrying that debt. In order for us to actually make some substantive, meaningful change, we have to look at our economy. We need to look at our economy more as a whole system. Typically what you would see in nature is that one plant or animal is creating waste that is nutrients for another organism. We've got to look at a circular economy where we're doing that too. There's a closed loop where the waste of one is the feed stock of another. We are never going to make enough progress if we're just trying to guilt people into recycling more, buying less single use plastic, turning off energy, turning off their lights, using energy efficient appliances. Some people are going to do that, some people are not. But it's never going to be enough in order for us to make the change that we need to make. In order for us to have a fundamental shift, we have to make the right thing, the default, the easy thing to do, and we need to fundamentally change our economic structure so that corporations don't define their success solely by their bottom line profit or their distributable profit to their shareholders. But they're looking at the full, common good in terms of environmental and social degradation. So that brings me to your first question about what excites me right now in the world of sustainability. The climate science has been conclusive that our economy has to fundamentally get off of fossil fuels. The realist and pessimist in me saw that come out in 2018 and then again in 2019. The realist and pessimist in me says, how are we going to slow down our economy long enough to remake it and get it off of fossil fuels? The technology is there, it's the collective will. I struggled to see how the powers that be, the corporations, the politicians, the leaders, and not just in the United States, but all over the world, I didn't see a lot of motivation on their part. I think Gretta Thornburg rightly has pointed that out many times. The collective will just wasn't there. I will say what has thrown a wrench in that is COVID-19. COVID, it's horrible, the amount of people that are coming down with it, the amount of people that are dying, the disproportionate effect on minority and socio-economic and disadvantaged communities. It's laying bare so many problems, but it's the wrench in the system that gives me hope that that maybe this is our chance. The timeline is right in front of our faces. The wrench in the system has occurred. We are all at home. Everything has slowed down. The economy is tenuous at best. It feels like this is the moment in time where we can fall on our faces forward faster. We can start to make up ground in a way that we might not have been able to had this not happened. I don't need to elaborate on this, but I think the administration change is the key to that whole thing happening. If we have four more years of the same administration, obviously this is not going to happen. So the moment in time is here, the stars have aligned in a weird way for us to really start to look at some meaningful, significant, and systematic changes to our society. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work? The thing that I have seen that is a little bit different about my niche of my industry, the sustainability professionals within the architecture industry, I don't know that I've ever seen in another group. Technically we're competitors, we're in firms that are competing each other to win work. Because we've always been a little bit of the underdog, we've been kind of on the outskirts. People are sometimes slow to listen to us and absorb what we're trying to say. But because of that, I feel like we have formed a pretty tight knit group of people. I can honestly say that I know personally most of my sustainability leader counterparts in most other firms. A lot of them have been my mentors, a lot of them I would consider my friends outside of work. It's because of groups like BuildingGreen. BuildingGreen is a website educational platform that is dedicated to all things sustainability in the architecture, engineering and construction world. They have a great database that covers everything from anything you'd want to know about LEED, to product specifications, to great articles that cover the gamut on all things sustainability, but they also facilitate groups like what started out as the SD Leaders. The SD Leaders, it's a safe space for us to come together and talk about opportunities for us to advance sustainability and high-performance in our industry together. We try to skirt around anything that might be proprietary or causes to divulge secret information about any particular firm, but allow us to collectively crowdsource what's working in your firm; what have you been doing that's helped people gain more knowledge around the built environment and materials or resilience or whatever the topic might be. The other group that's followed in the SD Leaders' footsteps that has created the Countdown on Carbon page that I referenced is the LMRT, which stands for a Large Firm Round Table. They have a sustainability group and that group is more specific to the challenges and opportunities for a large firm, but they've also been a bit more actionable in terms of what can we do to get together as the 60 largest firms in the United States to start to move the market or move collective positioning. Because we're the large firms it's been really great to see such camaraderie and aligning from groups that would otherwise be solely in competition. It's a unique network. The Large Firm's CEOs for instance have said, we need to realign ourselves to be more like the sustainability group, because they collectively come together and get things done. It's a unique corner of the industry, but I think that it has helped all things sustainability in the built environment evolve farther faster. Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and your work at LEO A DALY? The LEO A DALY website, which is www.leodaly.com. My LinkedIn profile is Ellen Mitchell-Kozack. In both of those places you can find my email address. Go straight for my email.

Part 2 - Gabriel Wartofsky -Back with the legend himself! We continue our chat with Gabriel's experience bartending during college, how storytelling is such an underrated skill that can either make or break your career and his short sting as a comedian in NYC!  www.gabrielwartofskydesign.com About Gabriel Wartofsky: Gabriel leverages design to [re]connect people to the joy of everyday movement. While his career spans across industries and applications, Gabriel's dedication to developing desirable, human-centered mobility solutions remains consistent. As a designer/strategist, Gabriel co-found a clean-tech e-bike-share start-up aimed at adding joy to the first/final mile commute, developed ACES (Autonomous, Connected, Shared, Electric) branded strategies and experiences with think-tanks and automotive OEM's, and designed off-grid housing and modular greenhouses that re-connect dwellers to an appreciation to the natural systems that sustain their livelihood. As a thought leader, he specializes in speaking about the future of mobility. He's served on panels at several esteemed thought leadership events, ranging from SXSW Eco, Shanghai Biennale, Art Center Sustainability Summit, and Innovate Pasadena. As a Creative Strategist, he works with clients across industries to adopt new technologies and workflows by helping them identify, define and produce innovative narratives, product roadmaps and solutions. Born in Washington DC, Gabriel holds degrees from both Georgetown University and Art Center College of Design. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Gabriel and I chat about his beginnings in design, his current role in developing micro spaces, his founding an electric bike-share start-up and getting harassed at SXSW for not pedaling his bike! https://www.gabrielwartofskydesign.com/ About Gabriel Wartofsky: Gabriel leverages design to [re]connect people to the joy of everyday movement. While his career spans across industries and applications, Gabriel's dedication to developing desirable, human-centered mobility solutions remains consistent. As a designer/strategist, Gabriel co-found a clean-tech e-bike-share start-up aimed at adding joy to the first/final mile commute, developed ACES (Autonomous, Connected, Shared, Electric) branded strategies and experiences with think-tanks and automotive OEM's, and designed off-grid housing and modular greenhouses that re-connect dwellers to an appreciation to the natural systems that sustain their livelihood. As a thought leader, he specializes in speaking about the future of mobility. He's served on panels at several esteemed thought leadership events, ranging from SXSW Eco, Shanghai Biennale, Art Center Sustainability Summit, and Innovate Pasadena. As a Creative Strategist, he works with clients across industries to adopt new technologies and workflows by helping them identify, define and produce innovative narratives, product roadmaps and solutions. Born in Washington DC, Gabriel holds degrees from both Georgetown University and Art Center College of Design. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

#plugintodevin Show - Devin Thorpe for Congress Guest: Philippe Cousteau Issue: Environment. We are all suffering as our climate changes, our ocean health declines and the war on science continues to make us less healthy, less resilient and less sustainable. We need to recognize that the war on science must stop and that we must build a sustainable society. This pandemic is an opportunity to accelerate that trend. Bio: Inspired by the legacy of his grandfather of Jacques Cousteau, Philippe is an multi Emmy-Nominated TV host and producer as well as an author, speaker, and social entrepreneur. Philippe is the host and executive producer of the multi-Emmy nominated weekly syndicated series Awesome Planet, now in its sixth season. Philippe and Ashlan’s latest project is a Virtual Reality program called Drop in the Ocean which gives participants an immersive adventure exploring the ocean and premieres at Tribeca Film Festival Interactive in the spring of 2019. Recently Philippe and his wife Ashlan were the stars of The Travel Channel’s hit series Caribbean Pirate Treasure; winner of a Cynopsis Media Award for Best Adventure Reality Series. In 2016 Philippe teamed up with his wife Ashlan to co-host Nuclear Sharks, the #1 show for Discovery’s Shark Week. In 2015, they co-hosted a three-part series with Takepart.com, exploring tiger and rhino conservation in Nepal called Treasures of the Terai. As a special correspondent for CNN, he has hosted several award-winning shows, including his series Going Green which ran for four years and the 8-part special Expedition Sumatra. Philippe has also hosted and produced television programs for Animal Planet and the 8-part series Oceans for the BBC and Discovery Channel. His conservation efforts are focused on solving global social and environmental problems. In 2005 he founded EarthEcho International; a leading environmental education organization dedicated to inspiring youth to take action for a sustainable planet. To date, 2 million youth in 146 countries have participated in EarthEcho programs. Philippe has served as a consultant on a select group of international resort developments where he advises on best practices for social and environmental sustainability and his team designs immersive and meaningful 21st century experiences that leverage local environmental and cultural assets to redefine destinations. Twitter: @pcousteau Facebook: @pcousteau Linkedin: *|LinkedIn Profile|* Instagram: @pcousteau Photo credit: Voyacy Ventures Guest: Ashlan Cousteau Bio: Journalist and explorer, Ashlan Gorse Cousteau, travels the world in search of stories that entertain and inspire. From diving with great white sharks off Mexico, searching for tigers in the jungles of Nepal and filming caribou migrations in the Arctic, Cousteau engages viewers through incredible storytelling and experiences. Most recently, Ashlan was the co-star of Travel Channel’s award winning series, Caribbean Pirate Treasure. She, along with her husband Philippe Cousteau dive into maritime mysteries, explore pirate history and investigate the lore of lost treasures. Ashlan’s documentary, Nuclear Sharks, for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2016 premiered as the #1 rated show across all cable programming. Traveling to the Marshall Islands, she led an expedition to film, tag and investigate the mystical grey reef sharks who survived against all odds in the fall out of one of the world’s largest nuclear testing grounds. Ashlan also joined the eccentric crew of the “Desiree” for season two of The Aquatic World of Philippe Cousteau, the highly successful adventure spoof, on CNN’s digital platform Great Big Story. For over a decade, Ashlan worked for top rated entertainment shows; at Entertainment Tonight as a special correspondent and for 7 years prior as a correspondent and fill-in anchor for E! News. She also was the lead anchor of E! News Now, reaching millions of digital viewers daily. As an entertainment journalist, she covered everything from breaking news and celebrity exclusives to award shows and premieres. Cousteau’s endeavors go beyond television. In January of 2017, she traveled to Antarctica to be a headlining speaker at TedxScottBase where her talk, Laugh, Cry, Connect…How Entertainment Can Save Our Planet, was received with great praise. At the request of the United Nations, Ashlan served as host for the UN’s Convention on Migratory Species in Quito, Ecuador. She has presented at the Society of Environmental Journalists, DreamForce and SXSW Eco. Ashlan was selected by former Vice-President Al Gore to be the opening anchor for his internationally live broadcast of 24 Hours of Reality and continues to be a leading voice for environmental issues on Capitol Hill. Website: www.earthecho.org Twitter: @ashlancousteau Facebook: @ashlancousteau Instagram: @ashlancousteau #plugintodevin #UtahValues #BoldSolutions #UTpol

What’s it all about? I first reached out to Mike as I saw the incredible work he was doing as CEO of Ice Energy. As you’ll know, as much as I love traditional battery storage technologies, I also have a passion for thermal storage solutions, and Ice Energy has a great product. I’ve kept in touch as Mike moved on to new ventures, and had the opportunity to meet recently in San Diego at Energy Storage North America. Here we extend that conversation, into some possible controversial territory. About our guest Mike Hopkins is CEO of Bakken Midstream (www.bakkenmidstream.com), a company he and his partners launched in late 2018 to develop and own value-added natural gas infrastructure in North Dakota. Prior to launching Bakken Midstream, Mike was the long-serving CEO of Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com). Ice Energy is the leading provider of thermal energy storage for the electricity grid, with its award-winning Ice Bear system deployed in more than 40 utility service territories. During his tenure as CEO, Mike secured the largest ever thermal energy storage contract, expanded the product line, arranged over $55 million in funding and increased revenue over 700%. Prior to joining Ice Energy, Mike practiced law for 18 years as a partner with Bennett Jones LLP, a preeminent Canadian law firm recognized internationally as a leader in the fields of energy and climate change. He helped his clients successfully develop and finance over $12 billion of natural gas fired power plants in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. Mike served on the law firm's Executive Committee and led their Utilities, International and Independent Power Groups. Mike left Bennett Jones at the end of 2002 to lead the workout of a private data center developer. After the successful sale of that company, Mike co-founded a geomatics company and assisted several other startups, including Ice Energy which he joined in 2009. Mike is a member of the Committee for Economic Development of the Conference Board, the Board of Chancellors of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada, and the Board of Directors of OGL Engineering, Nelumbo, Inc and Plus Power, LLC. Mike is a member of the American Bar Association. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and been a featured speaker at many conferences, including the Infrastructure Investors Forum, Grid Modernization Forum, Energy Storage Association, Energy Storage North America, Peak Load Management Association, Community Storage Initiative, SXSW Eco, Electric Power Research Institute, Association for Demand Response and Smart Grid, NY-BEST, EUCI, PlugVolt, World Energy Engineering Congress, US Energy Bar Association, Law Seminars International, and various investment bank sponsored private events. Mike received a B.A. and a law degree from the University of Ottawa, an M.A. (Law and Economics) from the University of Miami and an MBA from the University of Alberta GUEST LINKS HERE Mike Hopkins on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljustinhopkins/ Bakkan Midstream on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/company/bakkenmidstream/ Bakkan Midstream website - www.bakkenmidstream.com Plus Power on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/company/plus-power/ Nelumbo on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nelumbo-inc/ Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated. Twitter https://twitter.com/weekincleantech Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thisweekincleantech/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhunt2013/

Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a nationally acclaimed authority on sustainability and design innovation, is a Design Director and the Global Co-Director of Design Resilience with Gensler. His latest book, 'The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design' (Island Press, 2012), the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, won a 2013 New York Book Show award, was a 2014 finalist for the National Urban Design Awards Book of the Year, and has been Amazon's #1 bestseller for sustainable design. In 2017, Environmental Buildings News listed it as one of the books “all designers must read.” A popular public speaker, Lance has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events. Lance has chaired the USGBC's LEED Advisory Committee and served on the National Advisory Group for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE), and as of 2016 he was one of only thirty people in the world named as Fellows with both organizations. In 2018, he won the AIA's Sarah Booth Conroy Prize.   Growing Up and College   Lance grew up in Texas, spending half of his childhood in El Paso. He spent the last half of his childhood in the suburbs of Houston which gave him a sense of how communities should not be developed. Lance went to High School for performing and visual arts and then went to New York and earned a B.A. in Architecture at Columbia University and went on to Yale for his Masters in Architecture. “So I have this sort of primal memory of wandering around in a very specific landscape, one that's fairly harsh.  I liked the combination of that, of those two experiences from my childhood because I kind of got a sense of what it's like to be in a unique environment while also being in a very generic environment.” - Lance Hosey   Sustainability Minded Lance studied jazz at his high school of performing and visual arts and played the sax and piano. Playing was instrumental in his career and his thinking throughout the rest of his life because there was so much emphasis in sustainable design and on integrative and multidisciplinary collaboration.   “This place was an early environment where I really got immersed in that kind of approach.  There's all the different art areas. We're encouraged to collaborate. And it was such an incredible environment and  so creative and very diverse, a lot of my thinking later in my career about how we stimulate creativity and innovation comes from that early experience.” - Lance Hosey   Mentors Bill McDonough was a mentor early in Lance's career.  He then mentions Bo Burkabile was the original chair of the committee.  He never worked for him, but he got to know him through the AIA and Lance thinks that he is one of the leading lights of all of this, not just because of the interest in sustainability, but also just such a great soul, a really great example of someone who can be a motivator but also be a really terrific down to earth person.  Susan Maximin also served as a mentor, she is retired now, but she was the first female president of the American Institute of Architects, but Lance shares she was also the first to embrace sustainability as something that the AIA should be thinking about. The theme of her tenure was sustainability.   Proudest Achievements Lance is proudest of his book that came out in 2012, The Shape of Green:  Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design. The book is dedicated to the aesthetics of sustainable design and contains a lot of the ideas that are already being talked about.   “What does it mean for experience and joy and and the things you can actually see and touch and feel and a building.  What does sustainability mean for those things?” - Lance Hosey   Book Recommendations The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design by Lance Hosey The Uninhabitable Earth:  Life After Warming by David Wallace Tune into this podcast to listen to the rest of Lance Hosey's amazing journey in this podcast hosted by Charlie.   Connect with Lance Hosey: LinkedIn www.lancehosey.com Twitter: @lancehosey   Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   GBES is excited that our membership community is growing.  Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!   If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!   Copyright © 2019 GBES

Mike Lightman is an experienced international entrepreneur. After completing his MBA, Mike worked with at Excell Partners, a smaller hardware focused VC in New York that invests in pre-seed and seed deals. Mike had the traditional associate role, conducting diligence and finding new deals. Over time he took on a more senior position and led diligence teams for multiple deals. Mike joined the World Bank in November, 2015. His roles normally involve assessing and redesigning startup support programs, preparing startups for investment, and liaising directly with investors. In his free time Mike is a part time EIR with Hax, the world’s first and largest hardware accelerator. He mentors companies at Urban-X (a smart city accelerator in NYC) and 1776 (a global incubator). Mike has been on the selection committee of SXSW Eco, is a founding board member of CENTCOM New York tech scout week (where US Central Command meets with technology startups), and is generally mentoring a few startups at any given time. Connect with Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellightman/ Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moeini/

Brian Merchant is a journalist and producer based in Los Angeles. He is editor of Motherboard, VICE's science and technology department. Brian is also founder of Terraform, the VICE online fiction outlet, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, VICE Magazine, Salon, Fast Company, Discovery, GOOD, Paste, Grist, and beyond. Brian is author of the great book 'The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.' Brian has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC World News, NPR, and a host of other TV, radio, and livestream shows; he's spoken at SXSW Eco, NYC's Green Room, and the Social Change Institute, and was an author of Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, published by OR Books.

Ian is a writer, producer and director, who has brought numerous projects from concept to sales and distribution. His latest film Teleios, an official selection at Shriekfest 2016, has won numerous awards internationally, including New York Science Fiction Film Festival, The Forrest J Ackerman, Fantastic Planet, Los Angeles Movie Awards, Galactic Film Festival and Milan International Film Festival. After opening in the UK, Japan, German and Korea, Teleios is slated for broad release in the U.S. later in 2017.  Where Ian's other work has screened and/or won awards: Cannes Film Festival, Milan International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, SXSW Eco, Telly Awards, Telluride Indiefest and Sarasota International Film Festival. His work experience includes Warner Bros. Pictures Theatrical Marketing, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Spike TV, The Weinstein Company, GRB Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. He is also Co-founder of RANDIAN, an innovative media/tech company based in Los Angeles. Ian holds an MBA from Penn State University and a BA in Theater (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the DGA (director) and BMI.

Ocean Science Radio heads to Austin, Texas for the annual green tech event; SXSW Eco. There they spoke with keynote speakers, presenters and even one of the founders, Scott Wilcox about how the organization began. Join Andrew and Samantha as they chat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr of the Waterkeeper Alliance, Melina Formisano of Conservation International, Dianna Cohen of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Shayna Skolnick of Navteca, and Zenia Tata of Xprize. Websites: http://sxsweco.com/ http://waterkeeper.org/ http://www.xprize.org/ http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ http://navteca.com/

What a powerful discussion! You'll definitely want to take notes on this one. Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson moderated a panel of veteran leaders in corporate sustainability at SXSW Eco 2016, unearthing great tips and insights that you can use right away. MGM Resorts SVP/Chief Sustainability Officer Cindy Ortega, Advanced Micro Devices Sr. Director Tim Mohin (who did the same at Intel and Apple), and Marstel-Day Founder/CEO Rebecca Rubin share the strategies and perspectives that make them very successful at leading sustainability consistently in large organizations, both public and private. You'll hear tips on: Engaging colleagues. Getting internal funding for projects. How to communicate in ways that work. Leveraging the metrics you have - and seeking those you need. Greening your supply chain when you don't control the resources or decisions. And much, much more! Tell us what you heard, what resonated with you, @joanmichelson on Twitter, on F our Facebook page (and like it while you're there) and in ratings/reviews on iTunes, IHeartRadio, Stitcher or TuneIn. Thanks for subscribing!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we present our live conversation from SXSW Eco. We're really sorry for the audio quality. There were some technical difficulties, and we did our best to clean up what we had. We'll be back with a normal show next week.

SXSW Eco: 'Cradle to Cradle' author William McDonough introduces his vision of the Carbon Positive City at SXSW Eco 2016. The concept integrates urban and agricultural development as a unified, productive and restorative system, thereby recognizing beneficial uses of carbon for short and long-term ecological, economic and social value.

SWSX Eco, which takes place Oct. 6-8, provides opportunities for energy efficiency companies to gain exposure to investors, utilities, and others. Chris Sonnier, producer of SXSW Eco, discusses efficiency trends that will be addressed at the conference and describes opportunities, especially for software companies.

If you've experienced eco-lightbulb confusion, you'll love the GD Correspondent report from GD Sandy Holtzman in NY about a new App that helps us identify the best lightbulbs (and where to find them) for our individual needs. This led to some discussion later in the show about electricity and coal. Our Sleeping Naked is Green segment was all about community sharing, borrowing and bartering. Lots of discussion about ecovillages and other ways we can share books and everything! Our feature interview was with Philip Campbell, who is visiting Austin, TX from the UK to be at the SXSW Eco event. He gave a great report (even though the audio was pretty rough from the phone he had to borrow to be on the show with us). It's worth listening to because he talks about his new Living Ark Project, where he will be going into the forest and living in an eco-pod with his 4-year old daughter for a year!