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Bedtime CO2 during wildfires & air pollution
Air Quality

Bedtime CO2 during wildfires & air pollution

Late summer in California increasingly implies preparing for wildfire smoke. By “preparing” I mean focusing on indoor air quality, and in particular: Particulate Matter 2.5. We’re instructed to seal off our windows and doors from the outside and– if able– convert our bedrooms into clean rooms. The number

  • Liz Voeller
Liz Voeller Sep 29, 2021 • 10 min read
Climate

Why focus on concrete & cement

This post is cross-posted on the Build Incentive newsletter, a new project of mine. Why focus on embodied emissions?When I surveyed the landscape of Embodied, Operational, and End-of-Life emissions in the built environment last fall, it was clear that Operational was the cool kid at the party. In the

  • Liz Voeller
Liz Voeller Apr 22, 2021 • 4 min read
Climate change: a problem of organized complexity
Climate

Climate change: a problem of organized complexity

Problems of organized complexity The case for a simple pattern Concluding her famous ode to cities in 1961, Jane Jacobs writes, “Cities happen to be problems of organized complexity.” From sidewalks of access to sidewalks of place, cities deal “simultaneously with a sizable number of factors which are interrelated into

  • Liz Voeller
Liz Voeller Aug 7, 2020 • 3 min read
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