Lloyd Alter on his book The Story of Upfront Carbon: why the emissions from making things matter more as energy gets cleaner, and how a life of "just enough" offers a way out of the climate crisis, in conversation with Ken Levenson.
A year after Colorado's Marshall Fire, three families and their design and building teams on rebuilding to Passive House performance and certification, with the incentives that helped, and what comes next.
A one-hour first step into Passive House: its five principles, the history that led to it, and how it makes the design itself the driver of comfort, health, and efficiency.
Passive House as a hands-on way to teach climate, energy, health, and resilience in K-12 schools, with the nonprofit Passive House for Everyone! and its work with New York City Public Schools as the case study.
In very airtight buildings even low material emissions matter. How VOC and SVOC emissions from finishes, adhesives, and sealants affect indoor air, and how natural wood systems such as MAFI's can reduce them at the source.
Hemp- and soy-based engineered flooring and building materials, with HempWood as the case study: their effects on indoor air quality and embodied carbon, and their durability, moisture and fire performance, and code compliance against hardwood.
Two Dattner Architects case studies where equity and sustainability drove the design, showing how affordable Passive House housing can offer healthier, stable homes, relieve energy burden, and support community decarbonization.
Insights from the 2026 International Passive House Conference, and how architects and building professionals can draw on the global Passive House community's tested solutions, suppliers, and peer support to build stronger local teams.
The ideas and case studies, many of them American and Canadian, that led to the first Passive House standard, and how passive solar, active solar, and superinsulation fit into that history.
Rick Hall of Building Science Professional Training on confirming that efficient homes are healthy: what to measure (carbon dioxide, radon, humidity, volatile organic compounds, particulates), how to read the data, and how to balance efficiency with occupant health.
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