Miguel Walker

Miguel Walker is one of the principals at Positive Energy and co-creator/producer of The Building Science Podcast. He is also a co-founder of The Humid Climate Conference, a board member of the Austin chapter of the Phius Alliance, former chair of the AIA Austin Committee On The Environment, as well as one of the co-founders of The Building Science Philosophical Society. 

Miguel attended Texas State University, where he studied English, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Art. He has worked in a robotics laboratory, in the tech industry, in the music industry, and found his vocation as a building science consultant and business leader. He has experience helping organizations develop multimarket presences, including building international operations.

Miguel composes and records his own music and produces music for other artists. The intersection of creative work and advocacy has always been important to him and has led to the ever important partnership between himself and the ecology-focused organization, Project Coyote, where he serves in their “Artists For Wild Nature” program. 

Miguel has been a guest speaker at the Passive House Northwest Conference, The International Meeting of The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), The AIA Austin Design Excellence Conference, and The ATX Building Performance Conference. He has also guest lectured for architecture departments at Yale University, The University of Texas, and Texas Tech University, the industrial engineering department at The University of Rhode Island, and the English department at his alma mater, Texas State University. He is an avid meditator, runner, reader, and a proud progressive Texan. He also speaks Spanish.