Sitemap - 2024 - Carbon Upfront!
Facit Technologies can digitally manufacture a home in your driveway
What's wrong with this picture?
What happens when the young-old get old-old
TVs and home theatre: how much is too much? How big is too big?
As our cities get flooded or boiled, it's time to get serious about resilient design
From the archives: Oboy, we visit the Cykelehuset Ohboy! an apartment building built around bicycles
In praise of traffic congestion
Why houses should be built on stilts
We're facing a demographic time bomb
Aging boomers mean we need to crank up the soundproofing in our housing right now
Bonus: Why we should keep the cold chain as short as possible
Reading Frostbite: How refrigeration changed our food, our planet, and ourselves
Why do I love mid-century modern architecture so much?
What is the true energy fallacy?
Why can't we just use one standard set of symbols for washrooms?
Why is the Ontario government so in love with natural gas?
Cars need design for disassembly and repairability
Not everyone who rides a bike can lift it over their heads
How bio-thinking might help us out of our carbon crisis
No, your internet habits are not killing the planet.
At Home With Tomorrow: A look back at prefab in 1947
How the built environment enhances your mind's health
Can skyscrapers be turned into "gravity batteries?"
From the archives: Touring the toilets of Le Corbusier
Piles of peer reviewed research show how bad cooking with gas is for your health
"Materials: An Environmental Primer"- a new view through the lens of upfront carbon
New research shows that gas stoves emit unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide
Fun at the book launch for The Story of Upfront Carbon
Why fighting small apartment buildings is self-defeating and short-sighted
It's Launch Day for the Story of Upfront Carbon!
Antimicrobial resistance will change the way we live
Why we need more bagel buildings
Why a symposium on embodied carbon gives me hope
Stop it with all the climate doomism in the news, it's worse than denial
I love this house of steel and glass! There are just a few problems....
Toronto has too many Ghost Bikes
Walkable neighbourhoods need places to shop
The Happy Planet Index measures what matters
Happy May Day, which used to be green instead of red
Why we will continue to be buried in single-use plastic
On water and windows in the UK today
Do we need to change the way we grow things, or change the way we eat?
Please join me at the book launch for the Story of Upfront Carbon
How to make buildings boxy but beautiful
It's Earth Day, and thank you, Denis Hayes
Stop blaming 57 companies for greenhouse gas emissions and look in the mirror
Things to look forward to in our electric future
Why everyone should care about upfront carbon (and why I wrote a book about it)
Retrofit and the AI revolution
On sufficiency, upfront carbon and Passive House
What North Americans can learn from modern European bathrooms
Manifesto puts sufficiency at the heart of the EU's future
Architects and engineers like Steve Webb are rethinking the conventional wisdom of how we build
A visit to two Passivhaus schools shows how far green building has come
Other thoughts on Paris and the Declaration de Chaillot
Happy Våffeldagen (Swedish Waffle Day)
In praise of the four-poster canopy bed
What's right with this picture? No overhead wires!
The Isokon shows us how to design for living in small spaces
Tropical Modernism exhibition shows how to live without air conditioning
Strategies from the Sufficiency Toolbox: Flexibility
How to build a low-carbon home
The UNEP Conference on Buildings and Climate could make a real difference
Why the "bathroom of the future" always fails us
Between the crowds and the carbon, we should reconsider the "museum without walls"
Enough already: why we need sufficiency as well as efficiency
We should rethink the toilet from first principles
Bonus: Who will save our digital memories?
Social housing project embraces radical and elegant simplicity
The war on cars blows up in Canada again
How careless design of showers is killing, maiming, and scalding people of all ages
After learning how to read books again, I try to review them.
Car and truck front ends reach new heights
Bonus: Why boomers aren't budging
Why 2024 may be the year of the Brompton
Writers: Stop it with the AI images already. You're next.
Why your toilet should have a room of its own
Bonus: How Did Our Fridges Get So Big?
Should I heat my home with a pile of bricks?
What will the kitchen of the future be like?
Why Cohousing Could Be the Answer for Aging Baby Boomers
We don't just have a disposable cup crisis; it's a symptom of a much bigger problem.
Happy anniversary to my new life working for me
BuildingGreen's top ten products for 2024 are not the most boring ever
How will we build with wood in a future neighbourhood?
At the Interior Design Show: the latest in killer bathtubs and silly sinks
The hot design trend of 2024: Comfort
Sorry, Doomers: Hannah Ritchie says it's Not the End of the World
Burning stuff is depriving us of years of healthy living
The new manual: What is the purpose of a window?
My TMU Sustainable Design students on how to fix the world
Don't say goodbye to the kitchen (or dining) table
From the archives: Boomers and bikes were made for each other