For more than 30 years, Passive House principles have been a valuable guide to making buildings energy efficient. But now, with steady improvements in our understanding of embodied carbon—the carbon ...

As recently as five years ago, embodied energy was a relatively esoteric subject. Making a building more energy efficient tended to mean reducing operational energy, with upgrades like LEDs, heat ...

This is another installment of our blog series on the landmark 2024 Massachusetts Clean Energy Bill, signed into law on November 21, 2024. Previous posts addressed how the Clean Energy Bill aims to ...

A mere 44 years after graduating from Princeton’s School of Architecture, I was back. Dean Monica Ponce de Leon had invited me to give a lecture on embodied energy. I would focus on how architects’ ...

A series of forest fires in California put additional pressure on state officials to reduce its embodied carbon footprint. (Joel Mott/Unsplash) As previously reported by AN, embodied carbon refers to ...

Three startups focused on lowering embodied carbon in concrete are among recipients of 14 federal grants totaling $428 million, the U.S. Energy Dept. announced Oct. 22. The agency's Advanced Energy ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent Cornell University research in battery development ...

You reported on future houses that claim an impressively low day-to-day energy use. However, it is important to remember that, as we progressively reduce this form of energy use, we ignore embodied ...

Manufacturing nations in the Global North are stockpiling energy and emission problems by outsourcing energy-intensive industrial processes to countries in the Global South, a new study reveals.