Carbon Upfront!

Home
Notes
Archive
About
Please join me at the book launch for the Story of Upfront Carbon
If you are in the Toronto area, it is on May 21.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
7
How to make buildings boxy but beautiful
Bike tours of Innsbruck and Heidelberg turn up some interesting solutions for dealing with windows.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
10
It's Earth Day, and thank you, Denis Hayes
He suggests that “nobody will agree with everything” that I write. We certainly saw that with my last post!
 • 
Lloyd Alter
41
Stop blaming 57 companies for greenhouse gas emissions and look in the mirror
It's us, not them. We have to stop buying what they are selling.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
103
Bonus: "Turn on the atoms"
From the achives: How Mr. Atom was going to run everything, including my toothbrush.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
13
Why fabric remains first
From the proceedings of the 27th International Passive House Conference in Innsbruck, my attempt at an academic paper.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
11
Things to look forward to in our electric future
A bonus from the archives from another era where they wanted to "electrify everything!"
 • 
Lloyd Alter
2
Why everyone should care about upfront carbon (and why I wrote a book about it)
My new book may be about upfront carbon, but it's not just about buildings, and it's not just for building professionals.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
12
Retrofit and the AI revolution
Maybe we should stop knocking down old buildings and replacing them with bigger ones that we don't need.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
8
On sufficiency, upfront carbon and Passive House
A quick summary of my recent presentation to the International Passive House Conference
 • 
Lloyd Alter
19
What North Americans can learn from modern European bathrooms
From the taps to the toilets, they think about more than just how things look.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
8
Manifesto puts sufficiency at the heart of the EU's future
The concept of sufficiency is truly entering the mainstream, as people realize that efficiency alone can't do the job.
 • 
Lloyd Alter
4
© 2024 Lloyd Alter
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture