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/

Naomi Beal is the Executive Director and a founding member of passivhausMaine, which opened an ambitious new public-facing workshop, showcase, training, and office space in downtown Freeport in 2025.

In this episode, we talk about the decisions behind the new space, the importance of outreach at the local, community, and school level, and an interesting community-based project they hosted to help low-income households lower their energy bills in the wintertime.

Connect with Naomi and passivhausMaine:

• Naomi on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-c-o-beal-52372427/

• passivhausMaine on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/passivhausmaine/

• passivhausMaine on Bluesky => https://bsky.app/profile/passivhausmaine.bsky.social

• passivhausMaine on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/passivhausmaine/

• passivhausMaine's website => https://www.passivhausmaine.org/

Valentine Gomez is the founder of Gomex Engineering and the first certified passive house designer on PEI (Prince Edward Island, Canada's island province). He thinks of Passivhaus as a kind of gateway rabbit hole, which has since led him down further, deeper rabbit holes, focused on healthy building materials, and including his achieving a Living Future accreditation.

In this episode, we talk about Valentine's experience as the first to bring Passivhaus to a new area, his tactics for getting people on board, and why he thinks municipalities are missing a trick by not choosing to build publicly owned buildings to the Passivhaus standard.

Connect with Valentine and Gomex Engineering:

• Valentine on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentine-t-gomez-p-eng-cphd-lfa-4688572a/

• Gomex Engineering on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/gomex-engineering-ltd/

• Gomex Engineering on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/passivehousepei/
  
  
• Gomex Engineering website => https://www.gomex-engineering.com/