[Sustain] Architects Adopt Zero Carbon By 2030 Building Standard

[Eric Brooks]

see http://architecture2030.org/


  Global Warming, Climate Change,
  and the Built Environment

Rapidly accelerating climate change (global warming), which is caused by 
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is now fueling dangerous regional and 
global environmental events. Data from the U.S. Energy Information 
Administration illustrates that buildings are responsible for almost 
half (48%) of all GHG emissions annually. Seventy-six percent of all 
electricity generated by US power plants goes to supply the Building 
Sector. Therefore, immediate action in the Building Sector is essential 
if we are to avoid hazardous climate change.


  Architecture 2030 Mission

Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent 
organization, was established in response to the global-warming crisis 
by architect Edward Mazria in 2002. 2030's mission is to rapidly 
transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor 
of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the 
global-warming crisis. Our goal is straightforward: to achieve a 
dramatic reduction in the global-warming-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) 
emissions of the Building Sector by changing the way buildings and 
developments are planned, designed and constructed.

We are achieving our mission by galvanizing both the building industry 
and the nation to adopt and implement the 2030 Challenge 
<http://architecture2030.org/2030_challenge/index.html>, a global 
initiative stating that all new buildings and major renovations reduce 
their fossil-fuel GHG-emitting consumption by 50% by 2010, incrementally 
increasing the reduction for new buildings to carbon neutral by 2030.

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