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Link to Beverly Press / Park LaBrea News (June 4, 2025) | The U.S. Green Building Council California and BuildingEase on May 29 announced a groundbreaking partnership to create the Rebuild Marketplace – a centralized platform to connect communities, builders and homeowners with sustainable and fire-resilient building materials in the wake of California’s increasingly frequent and […]

Link to Doctoring Up Design Podcast (June 2, 2025) | California’s escalating wildfire crisis is forcing a radical rethink in residential architecture. With fires growing in intensity, frequency, and unpredictability, architects, planners, and policymakers are coming together to define a new blueprint for resilient, sustainable living in the wildland-urban interface. In May, I journeyed to Design […]

The arrival of the 2025 spring season includes a new chapter for 2024 USGBC California Environmental Justice grant winner RootDown LA. Thanks to the RootDown LA team and volunteers spending their Saturday mornings at the George Washington Carver Middle School Garden constructing the KitchenPOD funded by the USGBC California (USGBC-CA) award, the culinary space built […]

Link to Forbes.com (March 25, 2025) | LA area residents who lost their homes, or had heavy damage, during the January fires have a long and difficult road to recovery ahead… What are the takeaways from this tragedy for others involved in developing, building, buying, owning and, yes, regulating home construction in high risk fire […]

Link to APR’s “Marketplace” (Feb. 27, 2025) | …So rebuild faster, you have to build the same house, but you might not be able to afford it, and it might burn just like the old one did. That is why some building professionals are thinking bigger picture about how to design neighborhoods that are cheap and […]