Happy Earth Day! Did you know that one of the most powerful ways to address climate change is to restore and retrofit our buildings? In March, 70 nations signed the UN-sponsored Declaration de Chaillot. This foundational document calls for global cooperation to address the 37% of the energy-related CO2 emissions that come from buildings and construction. This year, the first
What’s new in the world of Embodied Carbon in our built environment? Scott Henson will be representing the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration (ZNCC) at 11am ET on Thursday, 4/18 at the NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon. Hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), the roundtable will include updates from key leaders in this topic, representing the US federal government and
Looking for some inspiration this weekend? Join Henson Architecture’s Preservation Architect, Cory Rouillard at the Traditional Architectural Gathering, TAG-24, on Sunday, April 14 at 12:20 pm ET. She will share a global architectural tour of beautiful, traditional, climate-appropriate strategies designed to keep us comfortable without operational energy input. Join this free event at: www.tag-24.org
Congratulations to Jane Sanders on her re-election to the Board of Directors of New York Passive House! Jane, Henson’s Associate Principal and Director of Sustainability, has been an active member of NYPH since the days before its official founding in 2010, when it was still a local Passive House Meetup group. Now in her second term on the Board, Jane
