JUSTIN R. WOLF




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Architecture | Green Design | Energy Efficiency 

In addition to my content strategy practice, I work as a freelance journalist covering green building trends, regenerative design, and energy policy for a variety of media outlets, including Green Building Advisor, Fine Homebuilding, Metropolis, Architectural Record, ENTER magazine (AIA Minnesota), and others publications. 

Green & Healthy Maine HOMES •

What's In Our Water?

Whether your home is connected to a private well or a municipal water system, understanding what contaminants might be coming out of the tap can have important health impacts.Upwards of half of all Maine homes use groundwater wells, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. The percentages tick up significantly in rural counties such as Hancock, Washington and Penobscot, where a majority of homes rely on private wells. This raises important questions about water quality,...
AIA Architect •

A restorative future for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Restoration and resilienceOperations at CSHL date back to 1890. A year prior, whaling scion John D. Jones donated eight acres of land, once occupied by his family’s Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Company, to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. That organization later founded CSHL’s forerunner, the Biological Laboratory. Still standing today, next to the water of the inner harbor, is the modest but stately Jones Laboratory, the oldest operating science lab in the U.S. The timber-frame buildi...
EnergySage News •

America's Power Crunch Gets Worse As $5 Billion Transmission Project Loses Federal Backing

We won't charge you anything to get quotes through our marketplace. Instead, installers and other service providers pay us a small fee to participate after we vet them for reliability and suitability. To learn more, read about how we make money, our Dispute Resolution Service, and our Editorial Guidelines.Built our own database and rating system for solar equipment, including solar panels, inverters, and batteries.Sourced the majority of our data from hundreds of thousands of quotes through our...
EnergySage News •

EV Charging Should Be Easy—So Why Is It Still So Complicated?

We won't charge you anything to get quotes through our marketplace. Instead, installers and other service providers pay us a small fee to participate after we vet them for reliability and suitability. To learn more, read about how we make money, our Dispute Resolution Service, and our Editorial Guidelines.Sourced the majority of our data from hundreds of thousands of quotes through our own marketplace.As subject matter experts, we provide only objective information. We design every article to pr...
EnergySage News •

How Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Could Derail America’s Solar Boom

We won't charge you anything to get quotes through our marketplace. Instead, installers and other service providers pay us a small fee to participate after we vet them for reliability and suitability. To learn more, read about how we make money, our Dispute Resolution Service, and our Editorial Guidelines.Sourced the majority of our data from hundreds of thousands of quotes through our own marketplace.As subject matter experts, we provide only objective information. We design every article to pr...
EnergySage News •

Qcells Supercharges Georgia With Solar Recycling

We won't charge you anything to get quotes through our marketplace. Instead, installers and other service providers pay us a small fee to participate after we vet them for reliability and suitability. To learn more, read about how we make money, our Dispute Resolution Service, and our Editorial Guidelines.Sourced the majority of our data from hundreds of thousands of quotes through our own marketplace.As subject matter experts, we provide only objective information. We design every article to pr...
Common Edge •

How Will the “Big Beautiful Bill” Affect Renewable Energy Efforts? (interview with Martin Pedersen)

Last week’s passage of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill (BBB), the sweeping spending-and-tax package, will likely have far-reaching ramifications on virtually all aspects of government. For the architecture, design, and planning community, it seems clear that continuing efforts to expand renewable energy have taken a hit. The legislation takes direct aim at many of the tax incentives included in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that were intended to spur the growth in tha...
Metropolis Magazine •

Liz Martin-Malikian is Decarbonizing the Curriculum

Justin R. Wolf: As you prepare to begin your tenure at Miami University, how do you plan to define your role as chair of the architecture school, and how do you think your past experiences will inform that direction? Liz Martin-Malikian: When I was at Cosanti Foundation, we asked ourselves: how do we build a sense of belonging and become accessible to a diverse range of students? Cosanti has strong connections to Indigenous nations, and [founder] Paolo Soleri’s work was heavily influenced by...
AIA Architect •

Can real estate be a tool for social change? Adre says yes

Real estate development can be a prosperous endeavor. Rarely is it a noble one. Anyeley Hallová, the founder and CEO of Adre, an Oregon-based developer and real estate advisor that strives to be an “agent of social progress,” would like to change that. The company’s work is philanthropic in nature. “We’re developing projects for folks that traditionally don’t have access to real estate investment and ownership,” Hallová says. Broadly speaking, Adre’s mission is to help those with a mission—while...
Metropolis Magazine •

Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing

TRANSPARENT AND CLEAR, I GIVE SIGHT TO ALL. IN FRAMES OR IN BUILDINGS, I STAND TALL. WHAT AM I? The answer to this riddle is glass. The role of glazing in sustainable and healthy buildings is becoming clearer (pun intended) than ever before. On a basic level, windows provide views and daylight—two simple amenities that can be powerfully transformative for how a building feels to the people in it. But too much transparency can be a problem: Many progressive thinkers in the design community are mo...
AIA Architect •

A regenerative college campus from the ground up

The adage "do more with less" is anathema in the corporate world. It’s an approach to governance that often leads to stress, burnout, and compromised results. However, as an approach to campus planning and energy efficiency, it can produce something inspired and beneficial. Des Moines University has successfully done more with less.In 2019, Des Moines University (DMU) announced its decision to upgrade its campus. Rather than refurbish its existing facilities, the small, private health sciences s...
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Art Criticism | Art History

Gallery Crawl •

“Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures” at the Rubin Museum of Art

Memento Mori is the Latin-Christian maxim translated as “Remember that you will die.” It is altogether sobering and, in some perverted sense, comforting; it’s an epitaph for the masses—commoners and kings alike. It is also the subject of the ’s latest offering, of the same name, and although said offering is a modest one, this exhibition is, quite literally, breath-taking.
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