Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Dan Matisoff is a senior researcher who studies energy and environmental policy, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. He has a background in statistical analysis on the adoption and diffusion of energy and environmental policies and technologies. Right now he is working on a project related to the diffusion of eco-labels and advanced technologies in the built environment and how these drive market transformation in the built environment. He is the lead for Working Group 3 for Georgia Drawdown - Built Environment and Materials. He is well versed in statistical methods, quantitative modeling, and other approaches to assessing impacts of energy and environmental technologies.
Show Highlights
LEED Eco Label’s continuous score with a discontinuous “signal.”
The impact of the LEED Eco Label on investment in energy and environmental technology.
Important research to confer economic value to customers and to society.
Distribution of buildings in LEED to understand how the silver, gold, and platinum tiers caused additionality into a space.
Dan’s book tells a more dynamic process with the early movers into the LEED Eco Label and the produce positive information spillovers that help change the market.
Understanding the eco label itself is the certification of these traits and making them easy to observe to individuals.
The “LEED factor” benefits with pilot projects in geographic locations.
A sneak peek of some advanced degree programs for the rising demand for sustainability professionals.
“The goal was to take all this research that we had really reduced for economists and for a real academic audience. Then, to translate this into more of a story that somebody in the green building world might appreciate. To translate some of these kind of challenging economic concepts and challenging statistical findings into a more digestible form that will help people in the green building movement understand what it is they're doing, what it is they've accomplished, how the economics of the label works to confer value to customers, to confer value to society.”
-Dan Matisoff
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Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation
How Solar Energy Became Cheap
The Kendeda Building - Georgia Tech
Planet Money - NPR
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Green Building Educational Services
GBES on Twitter
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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 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 !
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Dan Matisoff is a senior researcher who studies energy and environmental policy, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. He has a background in statistical analysis on the adoption and diffusion of energy and environmental policies and technologies. Right now he is working on a project related to the diffusion of eco-labels and advanced technologies in the built environment and how these drive market transformation in the built environment. He is the lead for Working Group 3 for Georgia Drawdown - Built Environment and Materials. He is well versed in statistical methods, quantitative modeling, and other approaches to assessing impacts of energy and environmental technologies.
Show Highlights
LEED Eco Label’s continuous score with a discontinuous “signal.”
The impact of the LEED Eco Label on investment in energy and environmental technology.
Important research to confer economic value to customers and to society.
Distribution of buildings in LEED to understand how the silver, gold, and platinum tiers caused additionality into a space.
Dan’s book tells a more dynamic process with the early movers into the LEED Eco Label and the produce positive information spillovers that help change the market.
Understanding the eco label itself is the certification of these traits and making them easy to observe to individuals.
The “LEED factor” benefits with pilot projects in geographic locations.
A sneak peek of some advanced degree programs for the rising demand for sustainability professionals.
“The goal was to take all this research that we had really reduced for economists and for a real academic audience. Then, to translate this into more of a story that somebody in the green building world might appreciate. To translate some of these kind of challenging economic concepts and challenging statistical findings into a more digestible form that will help people in the green building movement understand what it is they're doing, what it is they've accomplished, how the economics of the label works to confer value to customers, to confer value to society.”
-Dan Matisoff
Get the episode Transcript here!!
Show Resource and Information
Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation
How Solar Energy Became Cheap
The Kendeda Building - Georgia Tech
Planet Money - NPR
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 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 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 © 2022 GBES
![GBM with Nate Adams
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https://www.gbes.com/green-building-matters-podcast/
Nate Adams, The House Whisperer About this Episode In this episode, we talk with Nate Adams, aka “The House Whisperer” about the residential side of things, particularly energy performance.
Nate shares how he got into the field of improving home energy performance and
the powerful movement he is supporting to help make energy efficiency the norm in the industry.
Key Talking Points
• Nate’s nontraditional route into the “green” movement
• The “Electrify Everything” movement & Nate’s mission to improve energy performance in every home
• Why home performance needs a measurement upgrade
• The importance of teaching while learning to make a stronger movement
Key Milestones of the Episodes [1:19] Nate’s background
[2:13] Nate’s nontraditional route into sustainability
[4:16] The “Electrify Everything” Movement
[8:00] Nate’s movement into the “entrepreneur” side of building green
[14:03] The “House Whisperer” Process
[20:13] What should the industry be focused on?
[21:57] Why we need standardized energy measures
[23:59] Consistent routines & teaching while evolving
Key Quotes “The math has flipped to where renewable energy is the least expensive source [of energy] in most places.”
Key Resource The Home Comfort Book: The ultimate guide to creating a comfortable, healthy, long lasting, and efficient home.
Other Resources An Inconvenient Truth
Electrify Everything! A Practical Guide to Ditching Your Gas Meter
Energy-Efficient Homes Are Worth More. So Let’s Create an Easy Metric for Buyers
An Efficiency Manifesto: Energy and Home Performance Programs Need Serious Reform
Get in Contact with Nate Nate Adams is the owner of The House Whisperer, green building industry writer, consultant, business partner for One Knob Consulting and Energy Home Performance, and author of “The Home Comfort Book”
The House Whisperer Website
Nate Adams on LinkedIn
Don’t forget to catch more episodes and resources for all of your green building news at the Green Building Matters website
Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn
Green Building Educational Services
GBES on Twitter
Connect on LinkedIn
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GBES on Instagram
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 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, 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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