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Valuable, available, and versatile: Bio-based materials are often framed as “interesting, but not quite ready” for large-scale projects. In practice, the opposite is increasingly true. Many of these materials are viable, commercially available, and already utilized in buildings today. The next gap to bridge is industry adoption. Our recent research assessed bio-based materials’ Technology Readiness […]

This home, ZEROHOUZ, recently received a design award from AIA Los Angeles, for its’ “quiet radicalism” in Climate Positive design. Catch architect and homeowner Avideh Haghighi speak about it at the upcoming Net Zero Conference in Los Angeles, on Oct. 1st at 11:45 am, titled “Breaking Through Barriers: Cost-Effective Strategies for Electrifying Existing Homes & […]

The climate crisis has become part of our reality as we experience extreme heat, flooding, fires, rising insurance and energy costs. We mourn over the human loss of entire countries reduced to rubble and may not even comprehend the carbon cost to rebuild them. It may feel discouraging to think, as a single person, that […]