Green Gab Podcast – Green Homes, Green Living and Green Companies

Green Gab is all about keepin’ it Green! Green Homes, Green Living and Green Companies. Get in on the gab and learn why green matters – to you, your family and friends and how it directly impacts your community! Join Marla Esser and Tony Pratte as they talk with Green Experts from a variety of industries, companies and organizations to help you learn the true gift of Green Gab!

Green Gab Podcast: Economics of Green

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-36.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:31 — 54.3MB) Say Economics and many people groan at the thought of microeconomics and macroeconomics in school.  Economics is actually a language – the language of business.  Elliot Eisenberg of the Bow Tie Economist gabs with us about many economic aspects of green and sustainability.  Elliot […]

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Green Gab Podcast: Sustainability… for Men

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:58 — 42.5MB) Gabbing about sustainability today. Sustainability, and its cousin – green – are two words that have many meanings and are often misunderstood.  Both words often are perceived as political buzzwords to be ignored. Some people think of sustainability and green as a mainstream way

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Green Gab Podcast: Helping Builders Build Green Homes

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-29.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:35 — 53.0MB) Gabbing with Michelle Foster of Home Innovation Research Labs, the VP of Innovation Services. Michelle speaks a lot with the housing financial industry to help them see the impact of an NGBS (National Green Building Standard) green certified home or project.  Taking the lower

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Green Gab Podcast: High-Performance Homes at No More Cost

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-35.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:50 — 56.1MB) Gabbing with Bob Fincher, the CEO and publisher at Sustainable Community Media, LLC with 2 media websites – Proud Green Home and Proud Green Building.   These sites were created and shared for the marketplace to learn about high-performance, green building in both the homes

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Green Gab Podcast: The 3rd “R” – Recycling

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-25.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:54 — 63.9MB)  As recycling is the 3rd R in “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” the next step is what else can we recycle.  How can we turn “trash to treasure” or in keeping with the “R theme… Refuse to Resource?” Recycling is nothing new, Nature has been

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Green Gab Podcast: The Home Detective – Finding How to Get a Home to Perform Well

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-26.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:52 — 39.6MB) Gabbing with Kellye Markowski with Energy Smart Homes – a residential and commercial energy audit provider and project management.  We dubbed Kellye the “home detective” during the podcast recording and it seemed to describe what she does perfectly.  When Kellye performs an energy audit

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Green Gab Podcast: Stuff that Makes a House a Home

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:03 — 39.9MB) The stuff our homes are made of has changed as the world has become a smaller place.  While houses used to be built from whatever was available, usually locally, materials now may come from anywhere and everywhere.  Using resources – materials and products –

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Green Gab Podcast: Energy Independence with Brilliance

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:22 — 37.6MB) Gabbing about lighting and how it is brilliant – both in beauty and practicality.  Nick Frisella of Metro Lighting joins us to share his involvement both at work and in the community.  Nick’s passion for energy efficient lighting and community involvement show what a

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Green Gab Podcast: Dreaming Your Home

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:39 — 38.0MB) Building or finding your dream home is a goal for many of us.  For me it is building a renovating the green home of my dreams.  So, it is important to understand not only how to pay for our dream home, yet also how

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Green Gab Podcast: Affordable Does Not Necessarily Mean Cheap

http://2gtvault.com/downloads/shows/greengab/green-gab-episode-19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:43 — 36.7MB) Habitat for Humanity helps many people have a home of their own.  Gabbing with Michelle Woods with Habitat for Humanity- St. Charles. To date, Habitat for Humanity – St Charles has built 75 homes, all to green building principles. Michelle says “Green Building is

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