Andrew Himes is Director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum, working on collective impact initiatives to reduce embodied carbon emissions across built environments, including building materials, design, construction, and retrofits. He created and continues to host the NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon, explores and connects opportunities for collective action to reduce embodied carbon through design, procurement, materials innovation, and policy, and supports the development and utilization of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and decarbonization research. He is a member of the MEP 2040 Commitment steering committee (focused on decarbonizing building systems), and the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration (ZNCC) steering committee (accelerating ZNC for existing and historic buildings). In 2018, he was coordinator of Carbon Smart Building Day, a conference affiliated with the Global Climate Action Summit focused on transforming the global building industry to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Himes has delivered keynote presentations for the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA), the California Industrial and Construction Materials Association (CalCIMA), the Chinese American Construction Professionals Association (CACPA), the South Asian Cities Conference (Karachi), the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI), the Worldwide Conference on Human Values (Monterrey, MX), Passive House NW Conference, and others. Watch Andrew’s 2021 TedX talk Change Our Buildings, Save Our Planet. Watch Andrew’s keynote at the New England Sustainable Energy Association 2025 conference.
In 1987 Himes was founding editor of MacTech, still today the leading Apple technology journal, then was founding editor of the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early 90s. Himes was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International in the 2000s. He is the author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family and was executive producer/author of the 2004 documentary Voices in Wartime.
