Fox News brought him back! Here’s an interesting interview on the subject of tax credits for Green Building.

PREVIOUSLY: Urban Re:Vision Executive Director Eric Corey Freed interviewed with the Fox Business News team via satellite during the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco. Watch him keep a straight face while answering tough questions on the affordability of green.

The videos below are two of three segments which include interviews and footage shot on-site.

Segment 1: Building a Green Home includes interviews with the same individuals on different topics, as well as Michelle Kaufmann (creator of the mkLotus Show-house from West Coast Green 2007), Donald Simon (Conference Host) and conference sponsors and exhibitors including Terra Mai, UltraTouch and M8 Cabinets.

Segment 2: Greening Your Home includes interviews with Christi Graham, the conference’s Executive Producer and Eric Corey Freed, advisor to West Coast Green and Urban Re:Vision.

Good news… we just learned that Bloomberg will be returning for the  2009 conference at Fort Mason (San Francisco) this year. Early bird registration expires tomorrow.

Watch videos below:

Green Building for Dummies author Eric Corey Freed stopped by the Comcast Studios in San Francisco to talk about green building, home building materials, the role of architects and how it all comes together at West Coast Green – the nation’s largest residential green building conference.

Journalists interested in attending West Coast Green should contact us early this year: the number of full conference press passes will be limited.

Full passes for the media are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Contact Ian Bryan or Christina Lor more more information. Or, go ahead and register at www.westcoastgreen.com.

Here’s the video:

The event, which describes itself as “the largest conference on green innovation for the built environment”, and is in its fourth year, will take place October 1-3 at the Fort Mason Center.

Speakers this year include San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Michelle Kaufmann, principal of MK Designs, Panama Bartholomy from the California Energy Commission and Eric Corey Freed, principal of OrganicArchitect.

[Read entire article at sfgate.com]

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In the run up to last week’s Green Cities Florida Conference in Orlando, Eric Corey Freed, urban sustainability activist and principal of organicARCHITECT, was interviewed on WELE-AM’s Wake Up Daytona. 

As a speaker at the conference, Freed will share best practices from our Re:Vision Dallas project and draw from the most advanced research in Green Building to offer up a roadmap of the next 50 years for our buildings. 

Here, Freed talks with Doug Kosarek about his work and the significance of greener buildings.

Chris Cheatham (Green Building Law Update) interviewed Eric Corey Freed last week and just posted the first in a 2-part series interview:

My friends over at Sensible City recently offered me the opportunity to interview Eric Corey Freed. It’s not everyday I get to interview someone who was just interviewed by the New York Times so I jumped at the chance. Even better, Eric is an “organic architect” and studied under a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. I am getting married in October at Wright’s Arizona home, Taliesin West, so I couldn’t pass up this opportunity.

Eric is involved in a tremendous design competition called Urban Re:Vision, and he describes how Dallas was chosen as the site for the competition: “The mayor, Tom Leppert, was fantastic. He’s got 30 years in the building industry and he understood Urban Re:Vision right off the bat. So the City of Dallas gave us this block next door to city hall and said ‘Here, this would be perfect,’ and everything kind of came together. Now we have what we always wanted, a real city block, with real stakeholders behind it and the winning entry will really get built.”

In Part I of the interview, Eric and I discuss “organic architecture” and the Urban Re:Vision competition in some detail. Eric also provdies insight into liability concerns surrounding the competition. On Wednesday, we will discuss broader legal issues surrounding the green building indusry and a controversy that arose over Eric’s New York Times interview.

Part 1: [ Read the interview here ]

Imagine a city where renewable energy is generated by helium-filled “solar balloons” floating hundreds of feet above the rooftops. Imagine a city where public transportation doesn’t follow regular routes, but is efficiently directed on demand, via cell phone and GPS technology. A city where walls and fences are replaced with structures, such as shared kitchen gardens or child care centers, that bring neighbors together. A city where commercial systems are designed to generate social capital as well as cold hard cash.

It sounds pie-in-the-sky, but the folks at Urban Re:Vision think that asking people to reimagine the way urban spaces are designed is the key to finding real-world solutions that make city life healthier, for humans and for the environment. The San Francisco organization is using a series of design competitions to solicit new ideas, both viable and futuristic, for overhauling specific components of city living: energy, transportation, construction, commercial and community systems.

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