Newsletter Photo by Tierra Mallorca on Unsplash A Brooklyn 'passive house' offers affordability, energy efficiency Built to the exacting Passive House guidelines, Brooklyn’s Chestnut Commons isn’t the usual New York City affordable housing complex.
Good News How better design can make rural Alaska homes healthier Homes designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
Resilience www.sfchronicle.com San Francisco embraces aggressive new climate change goals as drought, heat and wildfires engulf California Some say change is still not fast enough to address a climate emergency that the Board declared two years ago.
Solutions apnews.com 3D printing's new challenge: Solving the US housing shortage A new generation of startups wants to disrupt the way houses are built by automating production with industrial 3D printers.
Solutions www.fastcompany.com This wild-looking domed house is made out of dirt by a giant 3D printer These 645-square-foot domed buildings were printed in Italy over the course of 200 hours.
Solutions This abandoned Danish prison could become a car-free neighborhood In a Copenhagen suburb, a rundown building that used to be a prison has been empty for the last two years. But the site will soon be transformed into a new sustainable neighborhood.
Solutions How rethinking affordable homes connects with the climate fight Experts in Canada and beyond see overlapping solutions to two crises: housing affordability and climate change.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
