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Jun 2, 2022 21 min

A road map to net zero buildings

from The Big Switch Hosted by Dr. Melissa Lott

This week on the show, we meet someone on a mission: to decarbonize America's buildings. Decarbonizing buildings is is actually a huge piece of decarbonizing our economy: carbon pollution from heating, cooling, and powering our buildings accounts for 30 percent of U.S. carbon emissions – that includes our homes, schools, hospitals and office buildings. So is it possible to decarbonize all of our buildings – and make strides in health and economic development at the same time? Our guest this week, Keith Kinch, thinks so. He's the co-founder of BlocPower, a company that's electrifying buildings across the country. He walks us through a road map of what it's going to take to get our buildings to net zero. Guest: Keith Kinch is General Manager and co-founder of BlocPower. The Big Switch is produced by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy in partnership with Post Script Media. This episode was produced by Alexandria Herr and Daniel Woldorff. Theme music and mixing by Sean Marquand. Story editing by Anne Bailey. A special thanks to Natalie Volk, Kirsten Smith and Kyu Lee. Our executive editor is Stephen Lacey.

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