Jack Rusk

I, Like Many Things. Actar (2023). With Rachael Tsai, Diana Smiljkovic, and Gustav Neilsen. 

Innovation in a time of crisis: EHDD's Early Phase Integrated Carbon Assessment. ArcCA Digest (2023). San Francisco, CA

Democratizing Decarbonization. EHDD blog (2022). San Francisco, CA.

Across Currents. Urban Omnibus (2022). New York, NY.

There is a light that never goes out: Changing patterns of occupation at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. AA Files 78 (2022). London, UK.

Served Space. CLOG:FEEDS (2021). Brooklyn, NY.

To reduce disaster risk, a multi-hazard approach is necessary. Nepali Times (2021). Kathmandu, Nepal.

*Rusk, J., Maharjan, A., Tiwari, P., Chen, T. H. K., Shneiderman, S., Turin, M., & Seto, K. C.  Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment (2022).

There's No Place Like. Contributor, editor. Paprika! (2021) With Rachael Tsai, Diana Smiljkovic, and Gustav Neilsen. 

*Holl, K.D., Lesage, J.C., Adams, T., Rusk, J., Schreiber, R.D. and Tang, M. Vegetative spread is key to applied nucleation success in non-native dominated grasslands. Restoration Ecology (2021). 

In Spite of the New Austerity. Paprika! (2020) State of the Carpet Bulletin. 

What’s at stake in Mistaken Identity? Issue introduction, editorial content, interview with Sogorea Te Land Trust. Paprika! (2020). Issue editor with Steven Rodriguez. New Haven, CT.

Schools for Resilience: Cristóbal Colón School Case Study, Chapter 7 and sections 3.1, 9.1-3 100 Resilient Cities (2019). New York City, NY. 

When disaster looms, take a hard look at soft mitigation. Yale Environment Review (2019). New Haven, CT.

Tale of two Parises: Gilets Jaunes and new directions in climate action. Commune Magazine (2019). Brooklyn, NY.

Climate change’s direct contribution to worsening mental health. Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (2019). New Haven, CT. 

Economic and environmental synergies between CFI and CLT. Research Poster. International Mass Timber Conference (2019). Portland, OR.

* Peer-reviewed publication

Climate Strategy: New Domains of Practice. Lecturer. Embodied Carbon in Buildings, with professor Stephanie Carlisle. University of Pennsylvania. 2024.

New Domains of Design Practice. Lecturer. Design Colloquium, with professor Robert Peña. University of Washington. 2024. 

Climate Strategy as a Design Discipline. Lecturer. Speaker Series. Diablo Valley College. 2024.

Designing for the Climate Crisis. Panelist. Cameron MacAllister Design Colloquium, 2023. 

Ecosystems, resource, discovery. Speaker. COTE NOLA Rising: Symposium for Climate and Equity, 2023. 

Using Life-Cycle Assessment and Associated Tools to Reduce Embodied and Operational Carbon Impacts. Speaker. UC Berkeley CBE and PG&E, 2023.

Climate Research in Design Practice. Moderator, speaker. AIA National Conference, 2023.

Carbon Crash Course Charrette. Speaker, facilitator. AIA National Conference, 2023.

It's EPIC to CARE. Speaker. Architizer x Material Bank Design Your Impact Series, 2023. 

Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Untangling Ourselves From the ‘Net’ in Net Zero. Speaker. The Architect's Roadmap to Net Zero, 2023.

Making Zero Possible: Efficiency-First Decarbonization. Speaker. The Architect's Roadmap to Net Zero, 2023.

Decision support tools for planning low-carbon buildings. Speaker. ASCE Architectural Engineering Conference, 2023.

Beyond energy: embodied carbon in practice and policy. Panelist. CalBEM, 2022.

First steps on a low-carbon pathway. Presenter. AIA CA, 2022. [video]

No half measures: how a whole carbon perspective informs facade design. Panelist. Facades+, 2022.

Embodied carbon modeling workshop. Presenter. AIA VA ArchEx East, 2022.

The role of geospatial data in building decarbonization. AEC keynote. ESRI IMGIS, 2022. [video]

Data-driven decarbonization. Panelist. Tech+, 2022.

A deeper dive on embodied carbon. Panelist. Build Reuse Conference, 2022.

Carbon accounting: terminology and metrics. Panelist. AIA California, 2022.[video]

Role of Smart Buildings in Reducing Carbon Emissions. Panelist. Smart Buildings Exchange, 2022. 

Understanding the new carbon estimating tools for early phase design. Panelist. Sustainable Minds, 2022.

Building design cultures for climate action: technology, workflows, teams. Panelist. AIA National Conference, 2022. 

Places to thrive: Architecture, climate change, and the great indoors. Lecturer. The Dalton School, 2022.

Low-carbon design for the rest of us: the pedagogical role of data models and design tools. Lecturer. ENV 894, Green Building with Professor Peter Yost. Yale School of the Environment, 2020.

LCA-informed design practices to minimize whole lifecycle carbon. Lecturer. Advancing High Performance Design, 2020. Conference canceled due to Covid-19

The real promise (and potential peril) of mass timber at scale. Lecturer. WSP Built Ecology lunchtime lecture series, 2019.