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. 

Countdown is TED's global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world.

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[billbrandon]

How many efforts to introduce such obvious solutions

[Noukz]

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

[gammalight]

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

[shahnazamirian]

ممنون از تد تاک بابت محتوای خوب آموزشی✌

[kyoni]

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.

[briansnyder]

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?

[JR-_-]

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

[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 💐💐😍😍

[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 ❤️

[shep]

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

[albus_dumbledore]

Lots of fake smart people in these comments...

Shoot, just outed myself too.

[kishores]

Why not plant trees in buildings?
Is it possible?

[billybilly]

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

[توفيقعادلبستاني]

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

[pepeshopping]

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

[nhatchau]

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

[TheCarnivoreSoprano]

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

[SzilardPusztafalvi]

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

[georgesoong]

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

[Mike-bnkr]

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