Senior Policy Researcher
Research Position Now Open Senior Policy ResearcherThe Carbon Leadership Forum, a research organization based out of the University of Washington's...
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ARPA-E $3.7M Grant to Fund Core LCA R&D
by Stephanie Carlisle, Senior Researcher for the Carbon Leadership Forum The promise of radically decarbonizing the building sector lies, in part,...
Postdoctoral Scholar: LCA Modeling
Research Position Now Open Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modeling of carbon-storing materials The Department of Architecture at the University of...
Postdoctoral Scholar: Embodied Carbon Benchmarks-WBLCA
Research Position Now Open Postdoctoral Scholar: Benchmarks for North American Buildings using whole-building life cycle assessment (WBLCA)The...
New CLF Staff Needed to support ARPA-E Project
The Carbon Leadership Forum Seeks Three New Staff Members to Support Carbon-Storing Building Research The promise of radically decarbonizing the...
Introducing Allison Hyatt
Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum Allison Hyatt is a Researcher with the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington. With years of...
Introducing Megan Kalsman
Policy Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum by Megan Kalsman I have always been drawn to and fascinated by cities. How we work, play, and move about...
Introducing Meghan Byrne
Engagement and Communications Lead, Carbon Leadership Forum Meghan Byrne works to support collaboration and communication across the CLF Community...
Introducing Milad Ashtiani
Building and Materials Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Milad Ashtiani is a civil engineer who received his PhD from...
2022 Embodied Carbon Policy Action
by Meghan LewisSenior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum 2021 was a busy year for embodied carbon policy, and 2022 looks to be filled with even...
Introducing Brad Benke
Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Brad Benke, AIA, is a Research Scientist at the Carbon Leadership Forum focused on...
State Public Procurement Reduces Carbon
by Meghan LewisSenior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum States are taking big steps on embodied carbon action this legislative session....
Six Months into SE 2050
Structural Engineers Combine to Share Learning, Resources, and Ambitious Decarbonization Goals By Chris Jeseritz Chris Jeseritz is a project manager...
Introducing Meghan Lewis
Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Meghan Lewis is a Senior Researcher at the Carbon Leadership Forum, where she...
Introducing Steph Carlisle
Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Stephanie Carlisle is an architect and environmental researcher whose...
Zero Carbon: Can Built Environment Education Deliver?
JOINT EVENT Monday 8 February 2021, 9 – 10 am PST The climate emergency means the built environment will have to be zero carbon. All new buildings...
CLF Launches Embodied Carbon Policy Toolkit
Throughout 2020, the Carbon Leadership Forum invested significant resources in developing an array of resources to support effective embodied carbon...
Introducing Monica Huang
Research Engineer, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Monica Huang is a research engineer with experience in environmental life cycle...
Embodied Carbon: A Clearer View of Carbon Emissions
International engineering firm Walter P Moore has released a groundbreaking stewardship report entitled Embodied Carbon, A Clearer View of Carbon...
Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront
The World Green Building Council’s pioneering report "Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront: Coordinated action for the building and construction sector...
Embodied Carbon in Construction
Published in Buildings & Cities in the Special Collection: "Carbon metrics for buildings and cities" Publication date: September 2020 Authors:...
CLF adds new research staff to accelerate embodied carbon action
Introducing Steph Carlisle and Meghan Lewis Today, the CLF announced the addition of two new staff positions to bolster its mission to radically...
New York Times: Concrete, a Centuries-old Material, Gets a New Recipe
A building block in most construction projects, concrete is responsible for about 8 percent of global carbon emissions. Several companies are...
Introducing Anthony Hickling
Managing Director, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington Anthony Hickling has experience in environmental and social sustainability as...
Carbon Positive RESET!
There has never been a greater urgency for climate action. by Ed Mazria and Natasha BalwitArchitecture 2030 We are in a race to find solutions for...
The Structural Engineer: Profile of Kate Simonen
The June 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer, monthly publication of the UK's Institution of Structural Engineers, was themed "Climate Emergency:...
Living Building Chronicle Interview with Kate Simonen: “COVID-19 Won’t Slow Progress on Embodied Carbon”
by Ken Edelstein - May 26, 2020 Kate Simonen has been a leading voice for reducing embodied carbon in buildings for more than a decade. She tackled...
CLF Director Kate Simonen wins UW Sustainability Husky Green Award
2020 Husky Green Award recognizes individuals and groups who have demonstrated leadership, initiative and dedication to campus sustainability at the...
Science Friday: How The World Of Building Materials Is Responding To Climate Change
Science Friday host Ira Flatow interviews CLF's Kate Simonen, plus Martin Pei, Chief Technology Officer of European steel company SSAB, and Jeremy...
Architect Magazine: The Carbon Issue
Meeting the urgent need for climate action, with decarbonization strategies for materials, design, practice, and policy. Architecture must quickly...
ENR Top 25 Newsmakers: "Kate Simonen: Climate Activist Has Rallied Industry to Reduce Embodied Carbon"
It has been a banner year for Kate Simonen and her burgeoning band of embodied carbon busters, bent on reducing the negative environmental impacts...
New York Times: Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce. by Amos Zeeberg For centuries,...
Stephanie Carlisle: "I've been polluting the planet for years. I'm not an oil exec. I'm an architect."
And no amount of data or complex modeling will rectify the building industry’s staggering impact on the environment. Design culture itself needs to...
Bill Gates’ Blog: Buildings are bad for the climate. Here’s what we can do about it.
GatesNotes - October 28, 2019 Besides the traffic and the weather, we Seattleites love to talk about all the construction going on in our city. The...
Interface CEO Jay Gould on optimism, talking to boards and truly carbon-negative products
Long-time consumer brands operations and marketing specialist Jay Gould readily admits he has not always been one to innovate through the lens of...
Announcing the EC3 tool partnership
Press Release The Carbon Leadership Forum, in partnership with more than 30 industry leaders, announces breakthrough tool to easily evaluate carbon...
CLF publishes the Buy Clean Washington Study
In March 2018, WA State commissioned the Carbon Leadership Forum to carry out a Buy Clean Washington Study to inform policy options and...
CLF and C-Change Labs launch the Embodied Carbon in Construction (EC3) Tool
In Fall 2018, the Carbon Leadership Forum and C-Change Labs launched the first development phase of the Embodied Carbon in Construction (EC3) Tool....
Carbon Smart Building Day brings together over 300 participants to lead the built environment toward Net Zero Carbon
In collaboration with 22 community partners, the Carbon Leadership Forum helped convened the Carbon Smart Building Day at the September 2018 Global...
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