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Green Building Education Services' CEO & LEED Fellow Charlie Cichetti shares his thoughts on the latest climate change report in this week's news.
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Larry Fink of Black Rock's 2022 Letter to CEOs blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter
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Green Building Education Services' CEO & LEED Fellow Charlie Cichetti shares his thoughts on the latest climate change report in this week's news.
Looking for more information on Sustainability? Visit GBES.com for all your Greenbuilding needs.
Larry Fink of Black Rock's 2022 Letter to CEOs blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter
Also, make sure you keep in touch with us through social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/GBES
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/GreenBuildingMatters

![GBES With Emmanuel Lavoie 1
Emmanuel Lavoie is the CEO of Jetstream Hospitality Solutions. He’s an Engineer, entrepreneur and investor with 17 years of experience in the management of business and technical projects. As CEO at Jetstream Hospitality Solutions, he focuses on maximizing business growth and driving innovation.
He has formed and subsequently led several ventures in sustainability, building design, and hospitality software and solutions. A skilled generalist with exacting standards, he’s competent in dealing with software teams, marketing, sales and fundraising. I find tremendous fulfillment in building world-class teams to deliver on ambitious projects and goals.
He’s passionate about travel and sustainability. Outside of work he loves sailing, surfing, skiing, paragliding, music and is moderately obsessive about technology.
Show Highlights The dichotomy between engineering and architecture.
Bridging the gap to blend environmental and social sustainability in co-housing or living communities.
How the green building movement applies sustainability to all industries.
Knowing when to pivot on your path and/or entrepreneurial journey.
Creativity of repurposing assets especially in short term rentals.
The hardest part to learn for aspiring entrepreneurs and the encouragement you need to hear.
Trends happening with short term rentals.
Avoid “greening up” only a certain slice of the built environment.
“Its the grind of the day to day and sometimes youre the windshield and sometimes youre the bug and sometimes youre on top of the world. Its scary to get beaten down. We call it the hustle. One of our core values [in the business] is we hustle. What that means is you just never stop because part of winning is to just not stop and still be there.”
-Emmanuel Lavoie
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Emmanuel Lavoie’s Show Resource and Information E-myth
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![LEED Pioneer in the Philippines - Alvin Tejada
Alvin Tejada is a LEED Fellow, an Architect, Project Management Professional (PMP), a pioneering LEED & WELL Accredited Professional, and TRUE Advisor in SE Asia; He is also USGBC and IWBI Faculty. Alvin has acquired more than 25 years of experience in architectural and interior design, corporate real estate, construction, property and facilities management. He has advanced his career as an independent practitioner and a team player in multinational companies.
Specialties: Construction and Project Management, Sustainability/ LEED, WELL, TRUE, EDGE Consulting, Property and Facilities Management, Architectural Design and Space Planning
Show Highlights
Challenges with LEED and green building in the Southeast Asia region.
Partnership with USGBC & higher education to develop a center for sustainability learning in the Philippines.
Grooming future architects on key sustainability practices as part of their design process.
Heightened alertness and awareness of carbon footprints has pushed the standards for practice and reporting to become a normal requirement for the built environment.
How the market has been transformed to adopt green building practices.
Academia has to catch up to train students in taking the correct mindset and practices to drive the change needed for the world.
“Theres really an interest [in green buildings] coming from students, especially hearing me share actual experiences and the developments that are going on. Ive seen how theyve been performing with the exercises that Ive been giving and it looks like theyre up to the challenge of taking on extra credentials. Ive also been encouraging them that this would really support them as they build their career early in life.”
-Alvin Tejada
“While were living in a challenging time, this is also an exciting time. The speed of technological development may be dizzying. We know that humankind continues to evolve with rapid changes. Just keep reading, keep learning, keep sharing, and eventually you get into the habit of this green building movement.”
-Alvin Tejada
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster:
Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn
Green Building Educational Services
GBES on Twitter
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Like on Facebook
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GBES is excited 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 assurance 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, dont 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 !
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