Introducing our new Cabañita! — Built with our Gryphon Panels! A beautiful, natural, accessory unit, ADU, tiny house, or cabin for your backyard or property. Cozy in the winter and cool in the summer, this energy efficient cabin is ready to be your studio, office, vacation rental, or extra space for your family!
2020 ended circling the proverbial drain, for better or worse. The jury’s out on what’s incoming. Maybe that’s okay. Maybe you’re just relieved to see these last 12 months go. Or maybe you’re nursing flashbacks of gleefully bidding good riddance to 2019, as this year cackled in wait (one stall over).
Fair enough all around, really. For now, take a beat. Take a breath. And when you’re ready: For the second time in as many months, we come bearing encouragement. Or at least an encouraging proposition.
With elections looming in the US and a news cycle fire-hosing despair in every direction, you’d be forgiven for stepping away from it all. It’s doubtful human bodies evolved to manage 2020 levels of anxiety, to say nothing of our sense inputs or neural wiring. Skydiving would induce a less intense feeling of helplessness.
Which is why we thought it a good time to talk about embodied carbon in building materials.
We know. Weird segue. But stay with us, for a minute.
Come together and celebrate Earth Day from home with an interactive webinar presented by the R.W. Kern Center and NESEA! Join us to talk embodied carbon, systems thinking, and climate justice with Ace McArleton and Jacob Deva Racusin of New Frameworks Design & Build
Addressing climate change requires us to change move beyond a mechanistic view of issues to an interconnected style of thinking; to look outside our silos as building and design professionals and connect our work to sustainable forestry, eco-agriculture and to movements for social & climate justice.
Sometimes we love our home for what we can see out of them, not in them. Our clients loved the view of the landscape out of their 1950s era raised ranch, but were not as fond of the awkward interior layout and sub-par energy performance and dependence on fossil fuels. We helped them to fix all that.
"When the folks at New Frameworks set out to build or restore a home, they aren’t just thinking about the individual needs of their client — though that is central to their work, of course. They also take the bigger picture into account, particularly their ecological and social impact, which weaves its way into every facet of the business."
