In the face of climate change, we each take steps to shrink our carbon footprint and reduce the strain on the earth’s limited resources. This is good for the planet; good for communities; good for people, their families, and their futures. When building a house, we can substantially reduce our carbon emissions. We can go beyond a carbon neutral proposition to design houses that sequester carbon, dipping below Zero Net Carbon, taking on a regenerative stance.

Designing the Carbon Sequestering House considers the major components of a house — the exterior walls, roof, and floor — and compared the embodied carbon of standard well-performing construction methods against proposed alternatives that use carbon sequestering materials. As a point of departure for designers, contractors, and homeowners, this toolkit explores pathways to design houses that not only lower their carbon footprint but go further to capture carbon from the earth’s atmosphere.

Read our toolkit, Designing the Carbon Sequestering House, here