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Community Microgrids

Recently, renewable, community-scale microgrids have gained traction within the energy industry, marking a shift from remote, centralized power plants to local, decentralized generation. Eunice Chung highlights a few examples of successful community microgrids today.

April 22, 2021
A before and after of the Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, OR

Renovation, Restoration, and Reuse: A Conversation with EcoBlock’s Larry Strain

Larry Strain, FAIA, LEED AP is a co-lead of EcoBlock’s Design & Construction team and Principal at Siegel & Strain Architects, an award-winning architecture and planning firm in the East Bay. We sat down with Larry to discuss his work on embodied carbon and the importance of adaptive reuse in the built environment.

April 8, 2021