Lloyd Alter

Lloyd Alter has been an architect, real estate developer, prefab housing entrepreneur, and writer. He teaches Sustainable Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has contributed to many publications, including The Guardian, Green Building Advisor, Corporate Knights and Azure Magazines, and was a contributor and editor at Treehugger.com for 15 years. Lloyd is the author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle from New Society Publishers. His new book, The Story of Upfront Carbon, describes “how a life of just enough offers a way out of the climate crisis.” has just been released.

He recently was a keynote speaker at the International Passive House Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, about “The Case for Retrofit” and spoke at the Buildings and Climate Global Forum in Paris about strategies for sufficiency.  He currently writes a popular Substack newsletter, Carbon Upfront!