Katrina Belle is the President and CEO of Maine Passive House. Her journey into building and passive house has its roots in a thesis she wrote on corporate social responsibility while studying human rights at College, coupled with the fact that most humans spend most of their lives inside buildings.

In this episode, we discuss the power of building science to improve people's baseline life experience, the benefits of having legislation that encourages building to better standards, the need to adjust your passive house talking points depending on who you're talking to, and much more.

Connect with Katrina and Maine Passive House:

• Katrina on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-belle-5216038b/

• Maine Passive House on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/maine-passive-house/

• Maine Passive House on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/mainepassive/

• Maine Passive House website => https://www.mainepassivehouse.com/

• A great Passive House Accelerator article featuring a house built by Maine Passive House => https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/inside-the-first-phius-certified-single-family-home-in-new-hampshire

Hans Breaux is an architect and the founder of Project CO+OP, a worker cooperative based out of Portland, Maine. Following Graduate School, Hans set off from his hometown in southern Louisiana to walk the Appalachian Way. He had no idea he would end up staying in Maine and founding his practice.

In this episode, we talk about the importance of talking to people, whenever and wherever, when it comes to spreading the word about Passivhaus, and Hans shares his view that Passivhaus is the "easy button" for creating buildings that use the most current best practices based on our sort of collective understanding of how to create shelter.

Connect with Hans and Project CO+OP:

• Hans on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-breaux/

• Project CO+OP on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/project-co-op/

• Project CO+OP website => https://project.coop/

• A great Passive House Accelerator article featuring Hans => https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/inside-the-first-phius-certified-single-family-home-in-new-hampshire

Alexander Gard-Murray is the Executive Director of Passive House Massachusetts, a nonprofit that educates advocates and supports passive house building in the Commonwealth. With a background in political science and climate policy, Alexander was pulled into building decarbonization via a Twitter thread.

In this episode, we talk about how Massachusetts has become a shining example of adopting passive house and passive building standards, why we need to think longer term when calculating the ROI of building efficiency, and how passive house buildings benefit everyone, whether or not they live or work in one.

Connect with Alexander and Passive House Massachusetts:

• Alexander on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/gard-murray/

• Passive House Massachusetts on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/phmass/

• Passive House Massachusetts website => https://phmass.org/