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Stop blaming 57 companies for greenhouse gas emissions and look in the mirror
It's us, not them. We have to stop buying what they are selling.
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Bonus: "Turn on the atoms"
From the achives: How Mr. Atom was going to run everything, including my toothbrush.
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Why fabric remains first
From the proceedings of the 27th International Passive House Conference in Innsbruck, my attempt at an academic paper.
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Things to look forward to in our electric future
A bonus from the archives from another era where they wanted to "electrify everything!"
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Why everyone should care about upfront carbon (and why I wrote a book about it)
My new book may be about upfront carbon, but it's not just about buildings, and it's not just for building professionals.
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Retrofit and the AI revolution
Maybe we should stop knocking down old buildings and replacing them with bigger ones that we don't need.
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On sufficiency, upfront carbon and Passive House
A quick summary of my recent presentation to the International Passive House Conference
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What North Americans can learn from modern European bathrooms
From the taps to the toilets, they think about more than just how things look.
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Manifesto puts sufficiency at the heart of the EU's future
The concept of sufficiency is truly entering the mainstream, as people realize that efficiency alone can't do the job.
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Architects and engineers like Steve Webb are rethinking the conventional wisdom of how we build
Example: the wonderful new world of stone construction
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March 2024

A visit to two Passivhaus schools shows how far green building has come
Architype builds a primary school next to a green building icon, and a high school just up the road.
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Other thoughts on Paris and the Declaration de Chaillot
I asked some others who were there for comments and did a podcast.
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