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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did you know that Bozeman will be hosting a Cold Climate Conference soon? Building Science for the Northern Rockies will be on topic - come over and learn about best practices for buildings here. Also, Bozeman is lovely in October: www.coldclimateconference.com

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Cold Climate Conference

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International Passive House Association (iPHA) @ipha.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📅 Save the Date! The 29th International Passive House Conference will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 2–3 April 2027 under the motto “Energy efficiency unites.” 📢 The Call for Papers is coming soon—we look forward to welcoming you to Innsbruck! passivhaustagung.de/en/conference

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hellloooo Essen, looking forward to the International Passive House Conference & meeting new Phriends #passivehouse

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International Passive House Association (iPHA) @ipha.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🌱 Workshop | 23 Apr, 13:00–15:30, 28th Intl Passive House Conference, Essen “More than insulation – a life-cycle perspective” with MEET. Learn to assess energy use & GHG emissions of materials & components, and reduce impacts across a building’s full life cycle. ow.ly/Aguz50YmuJB

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International Passive House Association (iPHA) @ipha.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Passive House Network #PassiveHouse 2026 Conference! 🏡💡 📅 June 4-6, 2026 📍 Hotel Marcel, New Haven, CT Find out more: ow.ly/Ljpn50XTyn7

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Regenerative Metropolis ‘25: #passivehouse as the Foundation to System Integration, Friday September 26 in #NewYork #NY @NYPassiveHouse I’ll be sharing about a recent LSA strawpanel project #architecture #regenerative #building #naturalmaterials #passivehouse www.nypassivehouse.org/event/regene...

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Regenerative Metropolis '25 - Passive House as Foundation to System Integration

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Wolfgang Feist @wolfgangfeist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Agreed. Just one more thing: Taking the "extra step" to achieve Passive House status is (by far) not as difficult as is often claimed: It's a matter of know-how and experience. Once implemented, it's actually quite simple. (Good airtightness is the core example—PH makes implementation achievable.)

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Mariana G Pickering @passivemariana.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My starter pack for #PassiveHouse powerhouses and pioneers on BluSky. Waiting for more to join! go.bsky.app/TQqTTtW

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Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"We need a cultural shift. We have to reimagine what good housing looks like — and recognize that compact, well-designed, community-oriented housing in walkable neighborhoods isn’t a compromise. It’s the goal." @holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...

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Unlocking the Missing Middle: Why the U.S. Housing Model Needs a Redesign

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 57 offices and 6,000+ professionals across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, and APME.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Homegrown timber, straw, screw foundations, robots. Whole life cycle analysis. The new robotic living lab by Bennetts Associates delivers it all 👏🏽. #strawhouse #strawbuilding. Typically you'd expect all sorts of excuses to build with status quo materials, not here. www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...

Life cycle analysis with emissions and carbon storage shown.

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thank you @phnetwork.bsky.social for sharing our first PH project in Bozeman, MT completed in 2019

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps was an all-Black unit of soldiers created to see if bicycles could effectively transport troops. In 1896, the Corps did a test run from Missoula, Montana to Yellowstone National Park, where this photo was taken. #BlackHistoryMonth

Photo of volunteer cyclists of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps posing on Mammoth Hot Spring's Minerva Terrace in Yellowstone National Park, 1896. The 8 cyclists were Sgt. Dalbert P. Green, Cpl. John G. Williams, Pvt. John Findley, Pvt. Frank L. Johnson, Pvt. William Proctor, Pvt. William Haynes, Pvt. Elwood Forman, and Musician William W. Brown.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Someone was asking me if there is #strawbale building in #Italy. Of course, there is #strawbuilding almost everywhere. Just not yet in the quantity that it replaces highly fossil construction of today. (It could, for a good chunk.) www.archdaily.com/875652/scl-s... #strawhouse

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SCL Straw-Bale House / Jimmi Pianezzola Architetto

Completed in 2016 in Vicenza, Italy. Images by Alberto Sinigaglia. The project reveals an idea of architecture based on archetypes as a trend-proof horizon. The archetype for home is shelter. You can ...

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The Passive House Network @phnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Fire Smart Building and Passive House make an ideal pair. Check out a list of ways that Passive House can make your buildings more wildfire resilient: passivehousenetwork.org/featured/fir...

The background is a rendering of a house, Sunflower Sanctuary, designed by Shape Architecture and located in Colorado. The next says "Fire Smart Building, Wildfire Resilience with Passive House."

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did. I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Seems counterintuitive to talk about #strawbuilding while the climate arsonists in the offices are setting the world on fire? Brace yourself for a reality check. Straw panel from ecococon.eu

Ecococon wall modules with sone data, like 120min Fire Resistance at a density of 110kg/m3 and passive house level of insulation.

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The Passive House Network @phnetwork.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

You’re on a journey to bring safe, hygienic, efficient buildings to your community–and we want to tell the world about it. Here are 5 ways to showcase your Passive House Knowledge with PHN. passivehousenetwork.org/featured/5-w...

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5 Ways to Showcase Your Work

5 Ways to Showcase Your Work Whether you've been designing Passive House projects for years or are just getting started, you're on a journey to bring safe, hygienic, efficient buildings to your commun...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

☝️The coolest thing you will see today. 'straw bale anchor' made for fast straw bale wrapping of houses. Perfect to turn unloved ugly industrial buildings into modern #passivehaus climate positive social housing for good urbanism. And no this is not unsafe. 😉 From: www.schelfbauhuette.de

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betsy gaines quammen @betsygainesquammen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This is due to Republicans moving to Montana under the spell of Yellowstone’s John Dutton. Montana’s political landscape has changed because newcomers see this state as a place free of regulations—an imagined libertarian cowboy lifestyle. We’ve gone from purple to red because of western mythology.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

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The Passive House Network @phnetwork.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

PHN Presents: Building for People - starting today at NOON ET! Register and join us - passivehousenetwork.org/phn-presents/

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PHN Presents - The Passive House Network

PHN Presents: Building for People Noon ET, Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 In Building for

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

reducing toxins in your home & work = balanced ventilation & constant fresh air = passive house design for all buildings

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Want to learn about healthy & resilient materials for buildings that sequester and store carbon? Online conference this Friday, Dec 6th, with dynamic experts on the topic: passivehouseaccelerator.com/events/reima...

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Reimagine Buildings: Biomaterials

Join Reimagine Buildings, a groundbreaking 24-hour global online conference by Passive House Accelerator

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It’s here! Congrats to @holz-bau.bsky.social on ‘Building for People’, this book is needed in the design & building community:

Building for People: Designing Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities by Mike Eliason

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native... A list of Native stores so you can #BuyNative on #cybermonday today. #boycottamazon

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BUY NATIVE LIST

About Native American fashion, clothing, and jewelry.

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

406 followers? Happy Montana Monday morning!

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One of the first passive schools in the UK, Oak Meadow, apparently saw their heating costs from from £45,000 to £5,000, after moving into the new building. In other words, the energy savings could pay the costs of hiring another teacher. See here: schoolsweek.co.uk/passivhaus-s...

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Passivhaus schools claim to reduce energy costs

Bills have been cut by £40,000 a year in some places - but how?

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Andy Bill 🫘 @decarbondekalb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Powerhouses” - I do love good branding. The last point is to not build new if you don’t have to. The US is really good at tearing down buildings… sometime just a few decades old.

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Andrew Michler @andrewmichler.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ecococon panels start today at CO_ph. Clear weather, cool and try for the week is a big help.

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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I just learned that in Spanish a heat pump is known as a 'UNA BOMBA DE CALOR' and it sounds cool and edgy and we should all adopt the term.

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thanks to all the new connections over here. Here is a peek at a CLT building in Wilson, Wyoming that we designed to meet the Low Energy Standard / Passive House International. Certification still a work in progress, but the finished project enjoys some nice views of the Teton range.

A hot air balloon rises in the early morning in Wilson, Wyoming, beyond the deck of a low energy building designed by LSA.

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Sunset on the MT prairie: Antelope Creek Campground near Dy Junction in Montana, this past August

Sunset over Antelope Creek Campground near Dy Junction, Montana

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Lindsay Schack @lindsayschack.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi to my new (and old) friends here where the sky is blue. The sky is big where I’m from and I’m [trying] to preserve the best parts of it. I’m an architect working on low energy, low carbon buildings in the Rocky Mountain West & co-founder of my arch firm. Thank you for building a better place.

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