Katie McGinty: Smart solutions to decarbonize buildings | In the Green

Almost 90 percent of our lives take place indoors -- and the buildings we spend most of that time in emit 40 percent of global greenhouse gases. Rethinking how to share, occupy and run the spaces we inhabit, chief sustainability officer at Johnson Controls Katie McGinty walks us through smart, efficient and eco-friendly ways to decarbonize buildings -- and the compounding benefits of doing so.
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[@billbrandon9241]

How many efforts to introduce such obvious solutions

[@JR-_-2010]

Interesting. Gives me a couple of things to think about.

[@Noukz37]

I wish she spoke about changing our wasteful habits and consumption choices at home, that's equally as important as upgrading.

[@shahnazamirian268]

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[@hoanganhminh5409]

thanks

[@gammalight1312]

Let's all make a conscious decision to stop buying or using plastics. Plants and insects contain the answers

[@MydogTobes]

So, stop driving, stop showering, stop eating, drinking even water, stop living? We should all just die off? Absolutely everything you do from day to day involves plastics at some point. You can’t turn on a water spigot without a plastic packing nut in the valve, cars are just LOADED with plastic parts. Good luck.

[@jamshidnikkerdar2074]

Great 👍 👌

[@j.svaraba9193]

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[@kishores7034]

Still wondering

[@fardeensaifi3001]

That's interesting.

[@briansnyder5596]

Most current homes made of plastics are in trouble during a fire. The fire spreads quickly n is toxic. We can do better. Why are these homes made of flammable materials?

[@SKILLSANDCAREERTALKSHOW]

I made a green house to produce maximum oxygen and to reduce the carbon footprints 💐💐😍😍 & enjoying amazing living here 💐💐😍😍 in a green house flooded with herbs, flowers and fruits 💐💐😍😍

[@shep6774]

Why do we not have solar panels on top of all buildings

[@homo_spider5607]

Maintenance

[@indirapatel8879]

❤😮.

[@garshtoshteles]

would

[@kyoni6098]

Really disappointed by TED for this choice: a politician that has no clue, pumping out statistics that are completely in crystal ball territory, thinking that every homeowner is willing to go into debt for a bet on saving a few bucks every year on future energy bills that have been exploding for the past 20 year due to weird tax reforms. Regulations on "more efficient" change almost every year and you'll keep upgrading and going into even more debt... Young generations are already in debt... is the "new normal" to have ridiculous debt at the end of your life? Good thing younger generations can refuse to inherit the debt of their parents... until politicians change that, too... Also: who is going to pay for all the garbage and disposal if people were to renovate all their homes? Lets produce even MORE waste and dump it into landfills (where it contaminates groundwater) or oceans (where it's already causing huge problems). Welcome to greenwashing TED... really disappointing.

[@user-Cata7sti7ma7]

*a few buck every years * Watch out the price of electricity jumping by x50 in the next 20 years. ^^ In the end if you donc go in-dept yourself and even add solar panel to your house, you will not have lightning at all in few decade. Instead of paying 80 usd for a video game that will last 8 hours. Save this money to do good reno. How many young people are in debt but it is entirely because they live 3 times above their average to spend more than 5000 usd on video games and entertainment content per year. How many stupid young people are struggling to eat and this walk with the latest iphone. I have a part-time job and I have no debt. and I even have more than 30k in savings in 8 years. No inheritance. fk all. I only remove the useless expense. no drug no alcool and no subscription, no gym, no restaurants. All that useless bourgeois stuff. Now you will be able to save money and invest in yourself and what realy matter. you don't need a 1k usd TV. you don't need a TV at all. you don't need a car, take a fucking bike. If young people, and I was young like everyone else, are in debt it's because they have absolutely no education in finance and money management. i was a fking morons, who ever looked at his bank account and has his expenses. I would like to thank my bank for offering management classes and a financial adviser who was able to explain to me and help me see beyond the end of my finger.

[@kyoni6098]

@@user-Cata7sti7ma7 not sure what country you live in, but it seems you are really lucky... the young people I know have to get into debt to pay universities to get a good degree to later earn a decent living and then pay ridiculously high rent in cities where you would better get neither car nor bike (unless you feel suicidal), public transport is ok-ish. Also internet and a basic computer for studying costs money, too. Of course if you have rich parents that can pay all of that for you before you enter the workforce, cool. Many are not that lucky... jobs without a degree are badly paid compared to the basic cost for "low-cost" existential food... never mind "healthy/green" food. I actually don't know any young people that pay that much on games... probably because I don't game...? Just saw another video yesterday on house renovation... him doing a lot it himself he still spent the equivalent of 40k USD... thats a LOT of 80 USD games... but hey... I never took finance classes. I did however renovate my kitchen and bathroom after 20 years... it cost 50k USD... plumbing, electricity and all... (and here you HAVE to hire specialists, if you don't you loose your house insurance... fire, gas-leak, short-circuit,... good luck)

[@blablup1214]

@@user-Cata7sti7ma7 I played a lot of games and I knew a lot of children and not even a single one of them used even close to 5k a year on video games....

[@albus_dumbledore]

Lots of fake smart people in these comments... Shoot, just outed myself too.

[@rridafitness2340]

💃🏼💃🏼🔥🔥🔥🏅🏆🌿👍👍🏽

[@NathalieLazo]

Hey YOU, incredible person reading this...The truth is you are confident and good enough already with who you are, where you are at and what you have right now to have the success you want in life. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn that skill and go after it! I believe in you so much! Have an awesome day! - Love, Nat ❤️

[@venic3bitch]

thank you for your pretty thoughts 💖

[@user-zc3zl9nt6l]

The need for a lot of money and efforts to achieve these solutions😶😶

[@kishores7034]

Why not plant trees in buildings? Is it possible?

[@henryknetsar3677]

The trees are all going to die!! They breath CO2, and we are getting rid of CO2! Because... science!

[@billybilly7100]

Why disable the dislikes?? Seems very controlling - and no its not KZbin but the channel itself that have done so - I have the extension that re-enables the KZbin change and is working on other channels.

[@catspaw3815]

please provide a link to one. i've not seen any yet

[@pepeshopping]

THESE PEOPLE!!! You will NOT cut more than 20%!!!

[@apexpredator1018]

Live in a SMALLER dome 🐒

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

now watch the video about posing as a billionaire to see the best views

[@nhatchau8343]

It is lunar new year and i’m already getting bad luck by seeing this video. Everything she said is so obvious and already been applied into real life and the reason why those solutions haven’t create enough effort is that those solutions haven’t been popular enough due to the poor financial stituation of many people and technology hasn’t developed to do that efective enough ( for example solar panel) ; so try to be more clever the next time you go to Ted

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

New jobs? Where? Perhaps in China that produces all kind of eco-equipment starting from solar panels.

[@SzilardPusztafalvi]

One more thing what she is not saying: be green be homeless!

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

Exactly. Buildings are demonized the way a cave would be better solution.

[@devidraj5806]

Any American here?

[@TennesseeJed]

Aye!

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Carbon is a basic building block for so many things. Let's stop with the nonsense, ok?

[@jinaduabdullahi6668]

Yes sir.

[@JV3Player]

Haha 🚬🌛

[@georgesoong4149]

Empty words. Show us the calculation. When you create jobs, that is cost.

[@Mike-bn7kr]

I am so done with Ted talks they are just getting worse and worse every time I watch one all they care about is liberal points of you I don’t care about liberal points of view how about some conservative info from you guys and deleting you goodbye

[@morningglorify]

Someone needs to get a grip here, and it ain't me. Good god, humanity evolved and will continue to evolve. Sustainable infrastructure is huge, it is essential, but this video is miserable, like someone pulling out a wisdom tooth.

[@questionade4229]

More utter drivel 🤣🤣