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New website design for baosol.com 30 Jan 2013 | 10:22 pm
Its been five years since I have been consulting and writing about sustainable building. A lot has happened and the road has taken some interesting turns, and to over use the metaphor the trip has bro...
LOCAL Make the Switch Video Series on Kickstarter 17 Dec 2012 | 09:05 am
LOCAL is a campaign to produce 25 stories in premium digital media that promote locally-based alternatives to the global consumer culture. We need your funding now to help us create stories of leading...
Help support my book [ours] Hyper-Localization of Sustainable Architecture on Kickstarter 30 Jul 2012 | 02:43 am
The most exciting architecture today is not only environmentally astute but re-imagines a sense of place. The book I've I've been working on a book for the past year and now it time to put the researc...
Lunch with the Dr. of Building Science 6 Jun 2012 | 12:00 pm
The term ‘building science’ is used quite often now in sustainable building circles, but much of what we understand of it can be traced back to the work of Dr. Joe Lstiburek, founder of Building Scien...
How Passive House Makes Net Zero Energy Homes A Reality 16 Apr 2012 | 06:18 am
Learn more about Passive House on RM-PH.com If you have lived off-the-grid for awhile like I have, you may also find the newly found interest in net zero building a bit amusing. Most of those who tou...
The Utterly Amazing Colorado Renewable Energy Conference 19 Apr 2011 | 05:03 pm
Hope I'm not over selling this but I have been part of a team putting together what may be the best looking conference I have seen. You can read the bulletin below but when I was asked to put together...
A Solar Eclipse in Colorado 21 Feb 2011 | 04:37 pm
Xcel Energy, the largest provider of electricity in Colorado has been at the center of a solar renaissance largly through no fault of their own. If you get Xcel electricity then you were able to get a...
Green Building Interview on Saudi Arabia 14 Jan 2011 | 07:52 pm
Here is part of an interview I gave for the International Quality & Productivity Center. They are hosting a green building conference in Saudi Arabia in March focusing on how to do it affordably. If y...
eVolo Magazine Cities of Tomorrow 8 Dec 2010 | 04:24 pm
eVolo Magazine is an exploration of the leading edge of building design. I was fortunate to contribute two articles to the third edition titled CITIES OF TOMORROW Envisioning the Future of Urban Habit...
Passive House: A Case for Less Tech in Building 11 Oct 2010 | 05:09 am
What’s better than high tech? In a word (well two) no tech. This is the elemental argument for Passive House. I attended a very informative talk by Kat Kligenburg the Executive Director of the Passive...