Sustainability from North to South with Josh Radoff

<p><strong>Josh Radoff</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a Senior Vice President at WSP. In today’s episode, he joins Charlie Cichetti to share his sustainability journey, including growing a respected green building consulting firm that has since merged with a larger company. Josh also discusses some pretty advanced projects he is working on and gets us thinking about what’s around the corner in this green building movement.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josh Radoff - The Origin Story</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Boston-born, Josh came from the East Coast, moved to Connecticut when he was three, but eventually ended up in Colorado. He went to college in Maine. With his upbringing, Josh leaned more towards the Red Sox than the Yankees.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josh was a physics major at Colby College, a liberal arts school. Trying to get as much diverse experience as he could, he joined its soccer team. He was also into film, writing movie review columns, and even hosted a radio show with a co-host.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Career Start</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He liked physics but knew he wasn’t going to stay at a lab so Josh became a high school teacher in Virginia, handling physics along with earth science. With a new-to-him environment in the South, he went through some adjustments on top of his daily preparations for the job.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Convinced that he wasn’t learned enough for his postition, Josh furthered his education by earning a Masters in Electrical Engineering. He didn’t realize he nursed an interest in sustainability until he sat in a course on energy and found out that it was something he would like to sink his teeth into.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That may have been my first taste into what would be my eventual career.” - Josh Radoff</span></em></p> <p> </p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Epiphany</spa