dateline: Mpls, April 23rd
If you like Al Gore, you'll love Ed Mazria!
Ed picks up where Al left off on how to stop global climate change. The guru behind architecture 2030 gave his brand new presentation on the influence of architecture to stop global warming at the University of Minnesota to a packed house of over 400. Next appearing in Seattle on the 25th and Vancouver on the 26th, his presentation is a must see!
With staggering graphics on the potential effects of melting polar ice, Ed laid out a clear and bold plan for architecture to save the world. If we don't act now, we'll need to start building arks instead!
April 25, 2007
Living Future 07 Conference
Keynote, Edward Mazria AIA
Seattle Center
Seattle, Washington
(open to the public, registration required)
Living Future - Cascadia USGBC
April 26, 2007
EcoDensity 07
Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA
Alice MacKay Room, Library Square
Vancouver BC, Canada
(open to the public)
NR ecodenstity speaker series
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The above EcoDensity link points to a Lecture from February 28, 2007 featuring Dr. Avi Friedman.
The correct one for Mazria is here:
NR ecodenstity speaker series
thanks! didn't check those links!
Sorry for the self-link, but here's an interview with Ed Mazria on BLDGBLOG.
Mazria: "The way we developed the 2030 Challenge was by working backward from the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that scientists were telling us we needed to reach by 2050. Working backwards from those reductions, and looking at, specifically, the building sector – which is responsible for about half of all emissions – you can see what we need to do today. You can see the targets that we need to reach so we can avoid hitting what the scientists have called catastrophic climate change.
If you do that, you see that we need an immediate, 50% reduction in fossil fuel, greenhouse gas-emitting energy in all new building construction. And since we renovate about as much as we build new, we need a 50% reduction in renovation, as well. If you then increase that reduction by 10% every five years – so that by 2030 all new buildings use no greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuel energy to operate – then you reach a state that's called carbon neutral. And you get there by 2030. That way we meet the targets that climate scientists have set out for us.
That’s how we came up with the 2030 Challenge – meaning a 50% reduction today, and going to carbon neutral by 2030."
talk to the clients, ed. or give us some tools with which to talk to them.
architects are in no more than about 3-5% of direct control of this issue. and only a fraction of those architects are even mildly 'green.' and if throught this litany he converts a big cadre of architects, it is still only dealing with about 2% of the problem. we can talk to clients, lobby etc. but talking to architects about this issue is rather futile i am afraid. this is not to say that architects shouldn't be leading the charge, we should, but it will go no where if we keep taking to ourselves about this. if it is important, Mazria should start talking to to someone besides the converted in liberal cities.
Ed's strategy is to legislate and to re-write the codes to mandate the performance levels- then there will be no arguments with the client about 'it costs too much'.
Already there are pending federal laws requiring every GSA building to be LEED-silver, and all projects that make it to the LEED persuasion.
OK, he isn't talking to the business schools or suits in the boardroom, and al gore may be causing more pushback then help at this level. So what is Lee Iacocca or Jack Welch doing to stop global climate change?
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