SSDN‘s Green Minds

Equity and Resilience with Katrina Locke of Volusia County, Florida

Katrina Locke, Sustainability Director for Volusia County, Florida shares with the us about the project they are undertaking in the Spring Hill Community with the help of a grant from the Southeast Sustainable Community Fund. The Grant was also able to provide a convening on Race, Equity and Community Resilience facilitated by Government Alliance on Race & Equity and Race Forward.

Kumar Jensen, City of Evanston

Kumar Jensen, City of Evanston Sustainability Director joins us from USDN 2019 Conference in Detroit. Kumar shares how equity has led his work in USDN and in Evanston's Climate Plans.

Architecture 2030 Vincent Martinez

Vincent Martinez COO of Architecture 2030 @arch2030 joins us from @USDN 2019 in Detroit. Vincent gives a history of Architecture 2030 and how this has manifested itself into key code proposals to the 2021 ICC Codes

How Green Building Codes are Made - The ICC Code Development Snapshot

We are coming to the end of the 2021 ICC Code Change Process as the Code Hearings are underway in Las Vegas. Hear a brief snapshot of how the code development process works.

Mahesh Ramanujam, U.S. Green Building Council President and CEO

US Green Building Council Florida Chapter hosted President and CEO, Mahesh Ramanujam. Mr. Ramanujam presented the state of USGBC and the advancements made in LEED v4.1. Mahesh also shared with us livingstandard.org a new initiative to share the stories of the role green buildings play in each person's life. Listening to his presentation leaves me no doubt that great things lie ahead at USGBC.

Season 3 Episode 1 Glen Hadwen City of Ft Lauderdale, FL

Glen Hadwen with the City of Ft. Lauderdale, FL joins us at ssdn2019 to talk about the history of usdn, ssdn, and fsdn. Also Glen shares what is going on in Southeast Florida and great story with Al Gore.

National Green Building Standard

An intro and update to the 2020 National Green Building Standard

Urban Sustainability Directors Conference 2018 rehash

Vanessa Balta Cook joins Kris to discuss her first experience at the #USDN annual meeting in Denver, Colorado

Season 2 Episode 2 Maggie Ullman CoFounder Southeast Sustainability Directors Network

Maggie Ullman provides the story for the creation of the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network. The direction and passion Maggie has brought to the development of network shines through in this interview.

Season 2 Episode 1 John R. Seydel City of Atlanta, GA

John R. Seydel, Director of Sustainability for the City of Atlanta joins the podcast from the Southeast Sustainability Directors Annual meeting.

City of Winter Park Sustainability Team

Hear our interview on Rollins College radio WPRK as we talk along things sustainabile in the City of Winter Park, Florida

Episode 6 Laurel Creech, City of Nashville, Tennessee

Episode 5 Wendell Hardin, City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Episode 3 Erin Gill, City of Knoxville, TN

Episode 1 Peter Nierengarten, City of Fayetteville, Arkansas

intro to podcast

episode7 Barbara Buffaloe from Columbia, Missouri

Episode 4 Tobin Freid, City and County of Durham, North Carolina

Episode 2 Nick Deffley, City of Savannah, Georgia