Michael Burchert
@michaelburchert.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction.
That #strawhouse guy.
Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
That #strawhouse guy.
Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
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Our project looked at climate neutrality 🇩🇪 2045.
Buildings built in '25 have an operational greenhouse gas emission budget of 6.86 kg CO2e/(m²*a) + embodied 6.41 kg CO2e/(m²*a).
By 2045, these budgets will be reduced to 1.05 and 0.79 kg CO2e/(m²*a), respectively.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Buildings built in '25 have an operational greenhouse gas emission budget of 6.86 kg CO2e/(m²*a) + embodied 6.41 kg CO2e/(m²*a).
By 2045, these budgets will be reduced to 1.05 and 0.79 kg CO2e/(m²*a), respectively.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Insgeheim grün.
www.lvz.de/wirtschaft/r...
www.lvz.de/wirtschaft/r...
Sachsen ist ostdeutscher Spitzenreiter bei Wärmepumpen
Mehr und mehr Sachsen installieren sich eine Wärmepumpe. Besonders auf dem Land sind sie beliebt. Dennoch sind viele Hausbesitzer verunsichert.
www.lvz.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Insgeheim grün.
www.lvz.de/wirtschaft/r...
www.lvz.de/wirtschaft/r...
We think we are on the right track, but the figures tell a different story.
February 17, 2026 at 9:14 AM
We think we are on the right track, but the figures tell a different story.
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Owners of Ring doorbells are being advised to smash them to splinters after a commercial showed how they could be used to surveil and identify humans with AI. Super Bowl LX may be remembered as the start of a counter-revolution against the technology. lloydalter.substack.com/p/the-smart-...
The smart home counter-revolution has begun
It started with a cute lost puppy.
lloydalter.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Owners of Ring doorbells are being advised to smash them to splinters after a commercial showed how they could be used to surveil and identify humans with AI. Super Bowl LX may be remembered as the start of a counter-revolution against the technology. lloydalter.substack.com/p/the-smart-...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Cederhusen, Stockholm.
245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.
Designed by General Architecture.
A thread 🧵
245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.
Designed by General Architecture.
A thread 🧵
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Cederhusen, Stockholm.
245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.
Designed by General Architecture.
A thread 🧵
245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.
Designed by General Architecture.
A thread 🧵
Reposted by Michael Burchert
🌾 Straw performs exceptionally well when moisture is managed as a system.
In the latest @ecococon.bsky.social blog, we look at the often discussed topic of moisture 💦
👇
ecococon.eu/blog/2026/ho...
In the latest @ecococon.bsky.social blog, we look at the often discussed topic of moisture 💦
👇
ecococon.eu/blog/2026/ho...
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
🌾 Straw performs exceptionally well when moisture is managed as a system.
In the latest @ecococon.bsky.social blog, we look at the often discussed topic of moisture 💦
👇
ecococon.eu/blog/2026/ho...
In the latest @ecococon.bsky.social blog, we look at the often discussed topic of moisture 💦
👇
ecococon.eu/blog/2026/ho...
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Bundesamt für Katastrophenschutz.
Wenn der Strom ausfällt, funktioniert vielleicht auch die Heizung nicht. Es kann im Winter kalt werden.
Warum schreiben sie nicht, dass die Auskühlung im Winter bei gut gedämmten Wohnungen kein Problem ist?
Wenn der Strom ausfällt, funktioniert vielleicht auch die Heizung nicht. Es kann im Winter kalt werden.
Warum schreiben sie nicht, dass die Auskühlung im Winter bei gut gedämmten Wohnungen kein Problem ist?
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Bundesamt für Katastrophenschutz.
Wenn der Strom ausfällt, funktioniert vielleicht auch die Heizung nicht. Es kann im Winter kalt werden.
Warum schreiben sie nicht, dass die Auskühlung im Winter bei gut gedämmten Wohnungen kein Problem ist?
Wenn der Strom ausfällt, funktioniert vielleicht auch die Heizung nicht. Es kann im Winter kalt werden.
Warum schreiben sie nicht, dass die Auskühlung im Winter bei gut gedämmten Wohnungen kein Problem ist?
Reposted by Michael Burchert
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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"Thickness is often conceived in negative terms in contemporary architecture, indicative of a lack of material optimization & therefore inefficient. However,[...] agricultural waste products, like straw, invert those logics"
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 AM
"Thickness is often conceived in negative terms in contemporary architecture, indicative of a lack of material optimization & therefore inefficient. However,[...] agricultural waste products, like straw, invert those logics"
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
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OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
February 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
Good morning.
You can write to your representative today about climate change, better building, retrofitting, sustainable public procurement etc.
You can write to your representative today about climate change, better building, retrofitting, sustainable public procurement etc.
February 17, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Good morning.
You can write to your representative today about climate change, better building, retrofitting, sustainable public procurement etc.
You can write to your representative today about climate change, better building, retrofitting, sustainable public procurement etc.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
Reposted by Michael Burchert
2019:
Me: gas car
Brother 1: gas car
Sister 1: gas car
Brother 2: gas car
Sister 2: gas car
Sister-in-law: gas car
Nephew: gas car
2026:
Me: used EV
Brother 1: used EV
Sister 1: used EV
Brother 2: used EV
Sister 2: used EV
Sister-in-law: used EV
Nephew: used EV
Less talk.
More action.
Me: gas car
Brother 1: gas car
Sister 1: gas car
Brother 2: gas car
Sister 2: gas car
Sister-in-law: gas car
Nephew: gas car
2026:
Me: used EV
Brother 1: used EV
Sister 1: used EV
Brother 2: used EV
Sister 2: used EV
Sister-in-law: used EV
Nephew: used EV
Less talk.
More action.
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
2019:
Me: gas car
Brother 1: gas car
Sister 1: gas car
Brother 2: gas car
Sister 2: gas car
Sister-in-law: gas car
Nephew: gas car
2026:
Me: used EV
Brother 1: used EV
Sister 1: used EV
Brother 2: used EV
Sister 2: used EV
Sister-in-law: used EV
Nephew: used EV
Less talk.
More action.
Me: gas car
Brother 1: gas car
Sister 1: gas car
Brother 2: gas car
Sister 2: gas car
Sister-in-law: gas car
Nephew: gas car
2026:
Me: used EV
Brother 1: used EV
Sister 1: used EV
Brother 2: used EV
Sister 2: used EV
Sister-in-law: used EV
Nephew: used EV
Less talk.
More action.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
The current best practice, ... say DGNB gold, platin, think of the e.g. best EU practice Holzbau school, is not even inside todays limits. It's only getting worse in the future, the budget shrinks. We need to step up significantly (retrofit + renewable materials + sufficiency) or -stop- building.
February 16, 2026 at 9:53 AM
The current best practice, ... say DGNB gold, platin, think of the e.g. best EU practice Holzbau school, is not even inside todays limits. It's only getting worse in the future, the budget shrinks. We need to step up significantly (retrofit + renewable materials + sufficiency) or -stop- building.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
The 2023 article that created these graphs posits 3 causes: English-speaking countries disproportionately
1. dislike living in or near apartments/condos/row houses
2. do not do "proactive public engagement at the policy-setting stage"
3. now have less land for building due to a legacy of sprawl
1. dislike living in or near apartments/condos/row houses
2. do not do "proactive public engagement at the policy-setting stage"
3. now have less land for building due to a legacy of sprawl
February 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The 2023 article that created these graphs posits 3 causes: English-speaking countries disproportionately
1. dislike living in or near apartments/condos/row houses
2. do not do "proactive public engagement at the policy-setting stage"
3. now have less land for building due to a legacy of sprawl
1. dislike living in or near apartments/condos/row houses
2. do not do "proactive public engagement at the policy-setting stage"
3. now have less land for building due to a legacy of sprawl
functional vs dysfunctional (for the average people at least)
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
functional vs dysfunctional (for the average people at least)
"Entsprechend ist es durchaus erfreulich, dass sich der Kulturkampf ums #GEG in den Kommunen nicht abbildet, sondern dort insgesamt wesentlich pragmatischer und zielorientierter diskutiert wird. Klimaschutzaspekte nehmen zunehmend eine untergeordnete Rolle ein,..." (1/2)
Entgegen der hitzigen Debatten, bleibt der #"Heizungshammer" auf lokaler Ebene aus. Auf Basis vergleichender Fallstudienzeigt sich: Die Konfliktintensität vor Ort ist überraschend niedrig. Zeit bleibt der entscheidende Faktor für das Gelingen der #Wärmewende.
www.rifs-potsdam.de/de/blog/2026...
www.rifs-potsdam.de/de/blog/2026...
Wärmewende in Kommunen: Konfliktarm, aber langsam
www.rifs-potsdam.de
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
"Entsprechend ist es durchaus erfreulich, dass sich der Kulturkampf ums #GEG in den Kommunen nicht abbildet, sondern dort insgesamt wesentlich pragmatischer und zielorientierter diskutiert wird. Klimaschutzaspekte nehmen zunehmend eine untergeordnete Rolle ein,..." (1/2)
The current best practice, ... say DGNB gold, platin, think of the e.g. best EU practice Holzbau school, is not even inside todays limits. It's only getting worse in the future, the budget shrinks. We need to step up significantly (retrofit + renewable materials + sufficiency) or -stop- building.
February 16, 2026 at 9:53 AM
The current best practice, ... say DGNB gold, platin, think of the e.g. best EU practice Holzbau school, is not even inside todays limits. It's only getting worse in the future, the budget shrinks. We need to step up significantly (retrofit + renewable materials + sufficiency) or -stop- building.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Not many people are aware of the fact that "The building sector is responsible for 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but has so far shown limited progress towards the significant reduction in emissions and related temperature targets set by the Paris Agreement."
Our project looked at climate neutrality 🇩🇪 2045.
Buildings built in '25 have an operational greenhouse gas emission budget of 6.86 kg CO2e/(m²*a) + embodied 6.41 kg CO2e/(m²*a).
By 2045, these budgets will be reduced to 1.05 and 0.79 kg CO2e/(m²*a), respectively.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Buildings built in '25 have an operational greenhouse gas emission budget of 6.86 kg CO2e/(m²*a) + embodied 6.41 kg CO2e/(m²*a).
By 2045, these budgets will be reduced to 1.05 and 0.79 kg CO2e/(m²*a), respectively.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Not many people are aware of the fact that "The building sector is responsible for 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but has so far shown limited progress towards the significant reduction in emissions and related temperature targets set by the Paris Agreement."
Reposted by Michael Burchert
REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 AM
REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
Chaos A.D.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy
Refuse
Resist
Refuse
Resist
Or Smooth Operator.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy
Refuse
Resist
Refuse
Resist
Or Smooth Operator.
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Chaos A.D.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy
Refuse
Resist
Refuse
Resist
Or Smooth Operator.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch
Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy
Refuse
Resist
Refuse
Resist
Or Smooth Operator.
It annoys me to have to repeat myself, but why are progressive people still acting as tools on this propaganda platform? Your resistance there is working fantastically well.
It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
It annoys me to have to repeat myself, but why are progressive people still acting as tools on this propaganda platform? Your resistance there is working fantastically well.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
Ukrainian blogger Yaroslav, known online as Savage Sage, showed Marinka, Donetsk region, before and after the Russian invasion.
📹: savagesage_eng / Instagram
📹: savagesage_eng / Instagram
February 15, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Ukrainian blogger Yaroslav, known online as Savage Sage, showed Marinka, Donetsk region, before and after the Russian invasion.
📹: savagesage_eng / Instagram
📹: savagesage_eng / Instagram
Transporter is loaded for the Repaircafé . Bring it on.
February 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Transporter is loaded for the Repaircafé . Bring it on.
Reposted by Michael Burchert
"Es gibt einen moralischen Imperativ, wenn wir über Klimamaßnahmen diskutieren, denn es geht darum, Häuser und Gemeinschaften zu schützen, die Natur zu bewahren, für zukünftige Generationen zu liefern.
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 AM
"Es gibt einen moralischen Imperativ, wenn wir über Klimamaßnahmen diskutieren, denn es geht darum, Häuser und Gemeinschaften zu schützen, die Natur zu bewahren, für zukünftige Generationen zu liefern.