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03 Apr

Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant (PG&E Energy Center Scholarship)

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22 Jan

Passive House & Fire Resilience (PHN)

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22 May

California Green Building Conference 2025 | San Francisco (USGBC-CA)

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Making Passive House Your Sales Superpower

Many of us study Passive House because we believe that Building to Passive House can reduce the built environments’ impact on the planet, reduce energy bills and make our homes/buildings last longer.

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Passive House & Fire Resilience (PHN)

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Welcoming the New Year 2025: Gratitude, Goals, and Community Connection

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Putting the Punk into Passive House

Can Passive House design and construction help achieve a Solarpunk future where people can thrive? In this first video of a four-part series, Zack Semke summarizes what the scientists are telling us about climate change today and pushes back on the fifth form of climate denialism: climate doomism or, “it’s too late”. Join in this exploration of the climate crisis, the clean energy transition, and how buildings will play a starring role in halting climate change.

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Passive House: Enhancing Air Conditioning Performance (and more), Without Forcing Change | by Brian Pearson & Susan Diana Harris

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Passive House Accelerator Magazine Features two California Passive House Projects

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