Elizabeth Hewitt analyzes the social factors that play into our decisions towards recycling, energy usage, and waste management. Host Heather Lynch and Hewitt, associate professor in the Department of Technology and Society, discuss how these factors influence pro-environmental behavior and how they can be mitigated through urban planning. Hewitt emphasizes how more collective behavior towards climate change needs to occur, especially in urban environments.Learn more with:China’s National Sword PolicyU.S. Green Building Council’s LEED SystemCongestion Pricing in New York CityAn Inconvenient Truth Skip ahead to the chapter that interests you:0:00 Introduction to Energy Efficient Retrofitting00:59 Welcome to C4E Presents01:28 Introducing Elizabeth Hewitt01:50 Recycling Behavior and Peer Pressure04:31 Challenges in Recycling Practices08:55 Sustainable Buildings and Green Standards11:15 Home Energy Audits and Retrofitting21:00 Electric Vehicles and Market Dynamics22:26 Congestion Pricing in New York City24:18 Environmental Concerns and Future Actions26:06 Conclusion and Next Episode PreviewTell a friend and share a link to this episode.You can find all our episodes at www.stonybrook.edu/c4e or wherever you stream audio.Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/c4e/newsletters.phpFor all things Stony Brook on social media: https://bit.ly/m/sbuC4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.Host: Heather LynchEditor: J.D. AllenProducer: Rachel Lea Program manager: Jennifer Gilday

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