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. 

Metropolis Magazine •

Why Interface Wants to Phase Out Carbon Offsets

“We came together as a company and agreed this was our moment to be a leader in this space, to start the conversation about what we can do to be carbon negative without the need for offsets,” says Liz Minné, Interface’s head of global sustainability strategy. This is not uncharted territory for the company. In 2020, the company launched its carbon-negative carpet tile products. They were assessed cradle to gate (meaning the tiles’ impact was measured from the point of extraction to when they lea...
ENTER: The magazine of AIA Minnesota •

Modular Missing Middle Housing

The need for affordable housing in just about every U.S. city has placed a tremendous strain on the country’s ability to balance supply and demand. By some estimates, the U.S. needs up to five million new homes to meet demand. This at a time when housing prices are outpacing wage growth in most markets, and older housing units previously considered affordable are now going for “fair market” rate.In Minneapolis, help arrived on January 1, 2020, when the city’s comprehensive plan, Minneapolis 2040...
Green & Healthy Maine HOMES •

Stay warm this winter: Backup power & space heating

Considerations for efficiency, economy and comfortANOTHER WINTER approaches, as it’s wont to do. Even with a warming climate and the 2023-24 winter season being one of the mildest on record for the Pine Tree State, the possibility of getting a string of subzero nights, multiple Nor’easters, and several multi-day power outages is increasing. Whether you’re inland or coastal, in the mountains or in the County, needs will vary but one thing is a constant: you may want some backup.Backup power and h...
Metropolis Magazine •

Antje Steinmuller Wants to Get the Housing Question Right

Justin R. Wolf: First off, congratulations on this latest appointment. Coming from the Bay Area, where you’ve been for most of your career to date, I’m curious how the move went. Are you fully settled? Antje Steinmuller: Yes. It took a while though. I was waiting for my apartment to become available, so I was spending time in Airbnb’s in Detroit and Ann Arbor. It was very good to be in Detroit for months and get to know the city and its potential, in order to understand how our programs relat...
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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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