Andrew Himes is the author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family, and was executive producer/author of the 2004 documentary Voices in Wartime.

Andrew is Director of Collective Impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), 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 CLF's 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 supported CLF's Challenge launching the SE 2050 Commitment (for structural engineers) and CLF's Challenge launching the MEP 2040 Commitment (for building system design firms). He was a founding member of the MEP 2040 Commitment steering committee (focused on decarbonizing building systems) and continues as a member of the MEP 2040 advisory committee. In 2018, he was organizer and coordinator of Carbon Smart Building Day, a conference of the Global Climate Action Summit focused on decarbonizing the global building industry.

Andrew 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), South Asian Cities Conference (Karachi, Pakistan).

In 1987 Andrew was founding editor of MacTech, the leading Apple technology journal, then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft in the early 90s. Himes was co-founder and director of Poets Against the War in 2003. He was founding executive director for Charter for Compassion International in the 2000s,