On this week's episode of Burning Down the House, host Curtis B. Wayne is joined by Elizabeth Heider, one of the chair members of the U.S. Green Building Council. Elizabeth is a "recovering architect" involved with the USGBC's LEED certification program. Hear about the LEED certification, and how it serves...

On the last episode of Burning Down the House in 2011, Curtis B. Wayne has a conversation about low budget, high tech architecture with Chris Benedict, R.A.. Chris discusses her work with friend and business partner Henry Gifford, tells the story of how she helped implement ventilation code in NYC...

On this week's episode of Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne interviews Bob Fox, one half of the duo behind the Cook + Fox architecture firm that Curtis works at. Bob is one the pioneers in what some term "green architecture" and during the program he takes listeners on...

This week on Burning Down the House Curtis addresses Henry Gifford (of Gifford Fuel Savings INC) and his claim that the US Green Building Council's system of rating how "green" a building is (the LEED system) is a scam, and does not actually translate into positive effects for the environment...

This week on Burning Down The House Skip Backus of the Omega Institute joins Jake Alspector Gennaro Church-Brooks to discuss sustainable architecture and design.