Holiday music with updated lyrics to suit the moment. 🙌🏽

Hear @passivehousebb.bsky.social on the latest Marketing Passivhaus, discussing her passivhaus journey, the difficulties of marketing passivhaus to policy makers (and architects!), how parameters set you free, and more. Listen to the full episode here => marketingpassivhaus.com/episodes/bro...

he may not like it - but someone needs to tell @mayorofseattle that this is what climate action *actually* looks like

Delighted to be working with @bpublicprefab.com to make beautiful, #SmokeTight, fire resilient homes easy to build in California. This one is my nod to Gregory Ain - and LA architect whose work and life I have much admired. (More designs coming soon.)

You always know when you’ve found your people. [Unusually uncrowded day outside ODC, SF.] cc.@americanfietser

we've known that shades for solar protection go on the outside of the window for *centuries*

you don't need 20' front yard setbacks for a high quality of life or good neighborhood character

Remember how during an actual pandemic, we couldn’t get these same ash*les to WEAR masks? Insane that we now need a law to force them to take them off.

Required viewing

This is the ICE we should be funding in the US

Important to recognize that this BOE competition by @nyserda.bsky.social was modeled after the Brussels BOE program. NY replicated it after Tour of Brussels organized by @TomasO’Leary & supported by @PassiveHouseNetwork.

an “environmental” law was used to extort a high speed rail agency to paying tens of millions for a highway expansion. CEQA is completely broken and impossible to defend at this point

From my visit to SF MOMA today, evidence of Californian history on a repeat cycle:

The sign authors forgot the follow-up: we decided public housing is icky and imploded it and built a smaller number of public housing townhouses with lots of surface parking in the middle of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in its place!

Celebrating these #BoxyButBeautiful row houses, proving that simple is sexy, easier to build + much easier to repair and maintain!!!

Blast from the past: over-framing at the roof of my Sunnyvale project from 2016. Should be standard construction detail but I’m still struggling to get this done on the reg in my current projects.. [Sigh.]

Happy to see more #ElectrifyEverything peeps looking upstream (and realizing we live in a third world product market.)

I don't think people understand the *massive* gulf between fire injuries/deaths and traffic violence. Here's an example: Average annual fire injures in Berkeley: 2 Average annual traffic injuries in Berkeley: 694

good question. Hey passivhaus folks with homes in suburbs/away from arterials/highways: how often do you have to change your HRV filter? does it ever get as dirty as in my photo above? @passivehousebb.bsky.social @wolfgangfeist.bsky.social @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social @ecominimalnick.bsky.social

What every west coast city needs right now is a full Zoning Holiday. NOT new stock plans, and NOT a stop to energy code progress. Here’s a proposal for two viable fixes: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ration... (👀@matthaneysf.bsky.social, @sonjatrauss.bsky.social )

you know how i keep harping on the mayor's comp plan limiting density to arterials? this is the filter on a passivhaus over a block off MLK. the dirty one was replaced 24 february. 20 days. the white one is what it looks like brand new. due to road particulates, needs to be changed monthly.

Seeking recommendations for an 8” duct mechanical damper for a range hood make-up air supply intake. Needs to seal tight enough for #Passivhaus. (Pressurization and depressurization.) Any suggestions @energysmartwv.bsky.social @lanefab.com @andrewmichler.bsky.social ?

Q for those working on #EmbodiedCarbon policy: anyone talking to Planners? #ZoningReform is our largest #upstream lever to reduce carbon emissions from buildings. City planners have NO idea of the impacts their decisions on setbacks + massing have on operational or embodied carbon… Why?

Are there better paths to simplify building regs that don't simultaneously retard State decarbonization efforts? YES there are! Here's my open letter to the authors of AB 306 (Schultz, Rivas) offering better options than just saying NO. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ration... cc. @sammyroth.bsky.social

I needed this bird divination today, perhaps you do too. (Available as a print at https://bit.ly/hopedivination and part of the deck of 100, along with the story behind them and my process, at https://almanacofbirds.org)

Surprised I haven’t seen a resurfacing of petitions for California to secede… (first time I’d consider signing.)

there are zero safety & urban planning gains w/ autonomous vehicles. we should be building out a non-profit/coop network of affordable and distributed EVs and electric cargo bikes with chargers to facilitate households giving up their cars. the urban future is car-light: youtu.be/9X4_Kta1EQY?...

Another fabulous bill supported by @phnetwork.bsky.social in @WAState to remove barriers to #BuildBetter. Props to local housing legislators: @davina425.bsky.social and advocates @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social @danbertolet.bsky.social Cc. @asmchrisward.bsky.social (you’re not alone! :)

Dancers, Le Guin argues, are “so much happier than dieters and exercisers.” [This week I was embarrassingly awestruck, delighted & charmed to learn that another legendary feminist writer knows this. 🙌🏽@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ]

Here goes @michaelburchert, dishing up yet another dose of awesome. 👏🏽👇🏽🙌🏽

The real news of this story is: “1,000 residences, including approximately 200 permanently affordable apartments, 60,000 square feet of Class A office space, 50,000 square feet of retail space, and two state-of-the-art Passive House public schools.”

This is great!

Politely noting that Sunnyvale's 'Single Family Home Design Techniques' (AKA the subjective rules my designs must conform to) are almost *exactly* the same as every other Californian city (so NOT unique) and make zero reference to resilience or inspired design. www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/home/showpub...

I spent my Sunday drafting an open letter to California Assembly members: RobertRivas, @nickschultz.bsky.social, @matthaneysf.bsky.social , @buffywicks.bsky.social , offering constructive alternates (or possible edits) to AB 306. We all want simpler... www.linkedin.com/pulse/ration...

Truly surprised that @matthaneysf.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social are both authors supporting AB 306 - legislation proposing to halt building code updates in California until 2031. This is #not progressive policy & not what CA needs in a #climate crisis. Bill: legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB30...

This masterclass in persistence is as timely as ever... "Sit quietly and wait to be served."

Perfect opportunity for LA to rebuild its electric #streetcar infra - starting in PPalisades and Altadena - and be ready for a car-free #Olympic Games. la.curbed.com/2018/9/6/178...

Always bring solutions or better options: passivehousenetwork.org/featured/pas...

California can’t solve climate change alone, but maybe it can extend the BART system.

Updated my profile. Now officially ok use thingumie (or any other pronoun.) [Keep your heads up peeps. May as well have some fun during the meltdown.]

Looking for rational responses & resources to share with your #LAfires friends? (Cc. @sammyroth.bsky.social) passivehousenetwork.org/featured/pas...

Yeah- let’s delay all progress on building better during a climate 🆘!!! (A rather nutty & reactionary response from Robert Rivas…) “AB 306 would block most building code updates until 2031 — meaning six excruciating years with no new energy efficiency rules or electrification standards.”

Two positions still open to study battery energy storage at Moss Landing, desalination/environmental justice/public water in Monterey County, and lithium ion battery recycling in California/Nevada. I’m hoping to spend all this money as fast as I can. I’ll get masters students through in one year.

Ruh ROH. Methinks we have a fragility epidemic on our hands... especially on the left. FFS ladies. Go put on your best #AOC red lip and get fierce and fiesty! Pick a hill to defend. (We only have democracy to lose.)

Anyone who’s visited China recently will not be surprised by today’s #DeepSeek announcement. On every front, China is streaks ahead of us. (And it’s not stolen IP. It’s original innovation.) The only folks who don’t know this are Americans. Forget great. Let’s make America functional again.

eliminating VMT reduction, climate resilience, sustainable mobility. what a bunch of car-brained aßholes

If you see this post, post a bridge. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...

A quick #FlashbackFriday for our Bluesky folks! Earlier this season, our new Music Director, Scott O'Neil, led us in a concert consisting of underrepresented composers. This concert was part of a larger #EDI effort, and Scott had wonderful words to share that we hope will resonate with you!

AOC going from vague left-NIMBY to actively self-IDing as YIMBY is when I went from “she’s a charismatic young progressive, cool!” to “give this woman an army” I think. Consequential policy issue where she did the reading and became an advocate for the better option even in the face of some headwind