About Me

Andrew Himes is director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum, working on collective-impact initiatives to reduce embodied carbon emissions across built environments, including building materials, design, construction, and retrofits. He created and continues to host the NGO/Government Roundtable on Embodied Carbon; explores and connects opportunities for collective action to reduce embodied carbon through design, procurement, materials innovation, and policy; and supports the development and utilization of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and decarbonization research. 

Andrew is a member of the MEP 2040 Commitment steering committee (focused on decarbonizing building systems) and the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration (ZNCC) steering committee (accelerating ZNC for existing and historic buildings). In 2018, he was coordinator of Carbon Smart Building Day, a conference of the Global Climate Action Summit focused on decarbonizing the global building industry.  He has keynoted these conferences: Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), Architectural Engineering Institute, PassiveHouse NW, American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA), California Construction & Industrial Materials Association (CalCIMA), Chinese American Construction Professionals (CACP), World Conference on Human Values (Mexico), and South Asian Cities Conference (Karachi, Pakistan).

In 1987, Andrew was founding editor of MacTech, still today the leading Apple technology journal. He then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early ’90s. He was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International. Andrew is the author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family and was producer / author of the 2004 documentary Voices in Wartime.