Lorraine Gauthier is a founding partner in Work Worth Doing, a forward thinking design studio creating social and environmental change. In September 2008, Lorraine launched the first Now House, a near zero energy retrofit of a sixty-year-old wartime house and one of twelve winning projects in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s EQuilibrium sustainable housing competition. She led the team carrying out the first demonstration house and is currently working on five more net zero energy Now Houses in