Glass Skyscrapers Have Turned Entire Cities Into Energy Vampires vice.com/en_ca/article/… via VICE Canada

Let's stop with all the "ban glass buildings" talk. Just demand a tough standard that every building has to conform to. It exists, lots of architects and engineers know how to do it, and it's called #passivhaus. treehugger.com/green-architec…

“Every now and then, the reality of what the science is saying manages to thaw the emotionally frozen part of myself I need to maintain to do my job. In those moments, what surfaces is pure grief.” themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/aug…

Looking for a great #PassiveHouse event in #Toronto? The PHPP User Group Meet Up is happening August 14 and tickets are available now! eventbrite.ca/e/phpp-user-gr…

Hot weather+ modern buildings= More AC= Yet more hot weather In the 70s US builders realised that AC could cover a multitude of sins, electrical utilities realised they could make more $ and corps could build nonsense glass towers. So what do we do now? tinyurl.com/y4hu8xtd

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What might global emissions look like on the road to 2°C? Great animation by Robbie Andrew that captures annual emissions, cumulative emissions, gross negative & positive emissions, & net emissions. What more could you want? folk.uio.no/roberan/t/2C.s…

The University of Victoria student housing project is one of several Passive House dorms being developed in Canada. Rafaela Kirloss, from Perkins+Will, will share at the inaugural Global Online Passive House Social, Weds, 7p Eastern US. eventbrite.ca/e/online-passi… International Passive House Association Phius

The ensuing economic crisis could linger for a few years, reducing energy demand & enabling renewable energy to gain ground. If governments play their cards right, 2019 could end up being the year that global emissions peaked. [my optimistic side] nature.com/articles/d4158…

Marine Sanchez Marine Sanchez will be speaking to Passive House Canada's Chris Ballard tomorrow at 9AM PT / 12PM ET for a webinar on multi-unit Passive House buildings! Register for free: m.rdh.com/2V8TzOX

Short & sweet presi (while still full of technical stuff, you know me!) on one of the keys projects which will transform the Toronto landscape 😊 #PassiveHouse #NetZeroReadyBuildings

Apparently there’s a thermal bridge removing SUPERHERO! His name is *Fiberman*. Superpowers: quietly removing the scourge of condensation and heat loss from buildings everywhere. ;) Fiberglass Grating in Canada - Ontario, BC, Alberta - Next Day Shipping fiberman.ca

And here's definitely one of my "💡" moments, preparing this slide deck. We need to get to work and figure out this one! Passive House Canada ERA Architects RDH Building Science

"Three Things Every Architect Needs to Know About Climate Change." Why and how buildings need adapt to dangerous weather. RDH Building Science learnbuildingscience.com/products/three…