Course Overview & Details
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Presenter: 35+ year veteran of the sustainable building industry, former chair of the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program development, author of Energy Free Homes for a Small Planet, and a leading voice in zero net energy (ZNE) building policy and practice.
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Host Context: Stanford University guest lecture for engineering and built environment graduate students, part of the university’s energy innovation and sustainable design curriculum.
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Session Format: 60-minute presentation + live audience Q&A, with unfiltered industry "rants" (as promised by the presenter) and real-world case studies.
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Core Audience: Civil/environmental engineering students, sustainable design practitioners, future construction industry leaders, and anyone focused on decarbonizing the built environment.
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Central Thesis: The biggest barriers to sustainable, zero-carbon buildings are not technological – they are cultural, procedural, and educational. We already have the tools to build high-performance homes; we just need to fix the broken systems that stop us from using them consistently.
