Zack Semke is Director of Passive House Accelerator and a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. He writes and speaks about the role that buildings can play in accelerating the clean energy transition. He studied human biology, with a focus on human ecology, at Stanford University (BA, ’93). Since then he’s worked as a policy advocate for progressive regional planning, a developer and leader of nonprofit community organizations, a taiko (Japanese drum) musician, and an evangelist for Passive House construction.
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Hi Brian,
Sorry, just seeing this. Construction Tech now happens as part of Passive House Accelerator Live on Wednesdays. Construction Tech episodes are on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month, while Project Showcase episodes are on the 1st... (More)
Haha - provocative! From my perspective the whole embodied carbon versus operational carbon question is classic "yes-and", not "either-or". The rising awareness and interest in reducing the upfront carbon of construction is really important if we're going to address the... (More)
Great question—and there are so many options/examples. A good place to start is NAPHN's policy resource guide119. The City of Vancouver is a star in Passive House policymaking and is seeing pretty amazing uptake of Passive House, thanks to... (More)
