The Story of Upfront Carbon with Lloyd Alter

HIP V. HYPE and Envirotecture are thrilled to welcome Lloyd Alter to Australia.

Following his keynote at the New Zealand Passive House Conference, he'll share advice with us from his new book and how a life of Just Enough offers a way out of the climate crisis.

"After 50 years of worrying about energy consumption, we now recognise that our real problem is carbon emissions. After decades of designing to reduce operating energy and emissions, we now must deal with upfront carbon emissions. This presents real challenges for the Passive House world; we now have to rethink what we build, what we build out of, and how much we build. Efficiency matters, but so does sufficiency."

Lloyd Alter has been an architect, real estate developer, prefab housing entrepreneur, and writer. He teaches Sustainable Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has contributed to many publications, including The Guardian, Green Building Advisor, Corporate Knights and Azure Magazines, and was a contributor and editor at Treehugger.com for 15 years.

Lloyd is the author of “Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle” from New Society Publishers. He currently writes a popular Substack newsletter, Carbon Upfront! and his new book, “The Story of Upfront Carbon” has just been released.

Proudly co-hosted by HIP V. HYPE and Envirotecture.

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