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Hey! 🎧 Hey you over there with the headphones! 🎧 Can you hear me? I said: can. you. hear. me?! Oh good! We've got a message for you. You can put your headphones back on while you read it—but you may rethink that choice by the time you're done. Why? Because comfort needs a refresh. Nadav Malin's editorial draws on his own experience and the expertise of Gail Brager, Mark DeKay, and Randolph Croxton. Be cool and join the thoughtful convo Nadav just started! https://lnkd.in/ePMrxQKe

Escape the heat—and that nagging sense of doom—while learning to say YES to green affordable housing. There's painfully little funding to design, build, and rehab affordable housing—but that's all the more reason to get it right when we have the chance. Learn how with BuildingGreen's Paula Melton, who will host Katie Ackerly, Gina Ciganik, Krista Egger, and Daniel Glenn on Wednesday, June 26, at 2pm Eastern/11 Pacific. So draw the shades, grab an iced tea, wipe the sweat off your hands, and save your seat! 😎 We hope to see you there next week. https://lnkd.in/eJ75uCnN

Affordable or Green? ¡¿Por qué no los dos?! Learn to say yes to housing that is green + affordable at our next BuildingGreen webinar. Wednesday, June 26 2pm Eastern | 11am Pacific 🔎 Ready to ditch the sustainability “sales pitch” and focus on what matters? Katie Ackerly of David Baker Architects can show you how. 🌱 Hoping to elevate simple, cost-neutral solutions for healthy homes? Ask Gina Ciganik of Habitable where to start. 🏘 Care to join a nationwide movement for integrative, people-centered housing interventions? Krista Egger from Enterprise Community Partners should be your newest pal! 👣 Want to follow in our ancestors' footsteps to co-create sustainable, culturally responsive designs? Start your journey with Daniel Glenn of 7 Directions Architects/Planners. This webinar comes with CEUs (1 AIA|HSW and 1 GBCI), and it's free for BuildingGreen and LEEDuser premium subscribers. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eJ75uCnN

Should affordable housing be green? Is that even a question?! Yes. Because in a sector that’s chronically starved of resources, sustainability is often seen as a luxury. BG’s Elizabeth Waters shows how the apparent affordable housing options—build more or build green?—present a false and untenable choice. Elizabeth spoke with many experts who’ve proven we can rise to the occasion and address a severe affordable housing shortage, climate change, *and* endemic injustice by: 📗 Reframing the conventional wisdom that sustainability and affordability are at odds 💚 Leveraging existing systems to improve people’s health, quality of life, and resilience 🧤 Working toward and supporting longer-term systemic change For this Spotlight Report (free to premium BuildingGreen subscribers), Elizabeth interviewed: Habitable's Gina Ciganik, David Baker Architects' Katie Ackerly, 7 Directions Architects/Planners' Daniel Glenn, Enterprise Community Partners' Krista Egger, THE JPB FOUNDATION's Dana Bourland, AICP, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Ethan Handelman, ESG | Architecture & Design's Laura Eder (Foster), MSR Design's Simona Fischer, LS Black Development 's Willy Boulay, International Living Future Institute's Susan Puri, and HomeSight 's Uche Okezie. Also! Featuring research from the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the BlueGreen Alliance https://lnkd.in/ecTrDEi7

We are so excited about this resource! We already know what's needed, but this is going to help real people get it done day to day. We are also proud that our own Candace Pearson and many others here at BG worked with Barbra BatShalom to bring this resources into being! Thanks for your leadership, Carbon Leadership Forum, Boston Society for Architecture! May we all follow your example and #BeTheChange we want to see.

As we launch our new long-term exhibit, With Every Fiber, we are grateful to Fast Company and Elizabeth Segran, Ph.D. for this thought-provoking feature on our humanitarian work and the exhibit! The article not only provides meaningful insight into Grace Farms Foundation and our mission, but also the impetus behind the Design for Freedom movement and what inspired our CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince, to act towards eliminating forced labor from global building materials supply chains. In telling this story, one of partnership, collaboration, and awareness, it underscores the importance of the With Every Fiber exhibit, the first major initiative to bring the Design for Freedom movement to the public. Curated by our Creative Director, Chelsea Thatcher, and designed by Studio Cooke John Architecture + Design, with Pentagram, the exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, May 4th. As the article notes, Principal, Nina Cooke John, AIA NOMA (DFF Working Group member and designer of the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, NJ - a DFF Pilot Project) collaborated with MillerKnoll, the first global manufacturing and retail company to support the Design for Freedom movement, to wrap the exhibit in a new façade using a Maharam textile that creates what she calls a “shadow wall” to invite the viewer to notice the architecture in a new way. The feature also highlights the collaboration at the root of the exhibit with 20 leading designers, material suppliers, artists, cultural institutions, and construction industry leader all contributing, including Lisa Kristine, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Joy Harjo, Carrie Mae Weems, Sherwin-Williams, North American Stainless, and more. "We want people to come away feeling hopeful," says our CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince, of the With Every Fiber exhibit. "We believe change is possible. We just need to start caring." Read the full article now: https://lnkd.in/efcnm-wc

It's a great time to sign the Contractor's Commitment! #EarthWeek

👽 Greetings, Earthlings! 👽 The theme of the day is *Don't panic.* Instead, enjoy Paula Melton's media recos for #EarthDay. Pick your jam! Some joy, some seriousness, some satire, and much sexy, sexy implementation guidance from Ayisha Siddiqa, Brad Liljequist, Octavia Butler, Michelle Amt, FAIA, Lloyd Alter, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Kira Gould, Lindsay Baker, aaand of course Talking Heads.  https://lnkd.in/esc6DAN4 What are *you* reading, watching, and listening to today? Share below! Photo: NASA/Tracy Caldwell Dyson. In the public domain.

Stop pouring cold water on #BuildingElectrification. We can do this! We can even enjoy hot showers while we transition to #NetZeroCarbon. 🚿 🚿 🚿 Intellihot Inc. is bringing the (water) heat in hotels, large multifamily buildings, and other places where #HeatPumps have struggled in the past. AND they’re doing it with the lowest-GWP refrigerant on the planet. Find out how in Brent Ehrlich’s latest product review (free to Premium BG subscribers). https://lnkd.in/es6PYKYE

Warning! Do not unsee this terrifying chart, courtesy of HGA. Your legal and ethical obligations as a building practitioner are on the line. The wildly fluctuating scribbles are our climate future. The dotted red line is the weather data you're probably using to design critical building functions like: 🔥 Heating & cooling 💡 Lighting & shading 💦 Moisture management 🌬 Ventilation 🛁 Plumbing So ... what to do? Candace Pearson has the deets on how to use the right tools to design for future weather. https://lnkd.in/eVUexaxT Kim Shinn, PE, LEED Fellow, BEMP National Renewable Energy Laboratory Victor Braciszewski, PE Nathan Kegel Arup ASHRAE The American Institute of Architects (AIA)