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Everyone has heard the classic fairy tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” and the deceitful, greedy Old Wolf who has eaten the grandmother and now has his eyes on Little Red. It has been told to generations of school children.
In the most recent rendition of this fable, the American Gas Association and Federal Performance Contracting Coalition seem to have swallowed up a Congressional Committee and now have their eyes on both Federal agencies and the U.S. taxpayer. More
Architecture 2030 introduces 'Just the Facts', a new feature that will list and link to the most up-to-date climate science from our top U.S. and global scientific organizations. "Our goal," says Architecture 2030 founder, Edward Mazria, "is to make it easier for our subscribers to get the facts and move beyond the rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum." More
Each year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes its forecast for U.S. building energy consumption. Since the 2030 Challenge was issued, this outlook has vastly improved. More
Architecture 2030 Founder and CEO Edward Mazria is one of five winners of the 2011 Purpose Prize, an annual award for social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to make an extraordinary impact on some of society’s biggest challenges. More
Get the latest updates on Architecture 2030's cutting-edge work and information on the rapidly changing Building Sector. More
The AIA + 2030 professional education series is the result of a partnership between the American Institute of Architects Seattle, Architecture 2030, BetterBricks, and the City of Seattle. AIA Seattle and Architecture 2030 are now bringing the Series to other AIA chapters. More
The Seattle 2030 District is an interdisciplinary public-private collaborative working to create a groundbreaking high-performance building district in downtown Seattle. With the Architecture 2030 Challenge for Planning providing our performance goals, we seek to develop realistic, measurable, and innovative strategies to assist district property owners, managers, and tenants in meeting aggressive goals that reduce environmental impacts of facility construction and operations. More
With the nuclear reactor crisis in Japan continuing to unfold, an important discussion has been taking place in the U.S. about the current and future role of nuclear energy and our aging nuclear reactors. We have noticed that in the media, there is sometimes a gap between what is being stated as fact, and what is actually fact. For example, prominent U.S. officials have stated recently, "We get 20 percent of our energy right now in the United States from nuclear power." In fact, nuclear power is responsible for 8.6% of total U.S. energy consumption. More
Better Building Initiative Fact Sheet
An independent analysis conducted by Architecture 2030 illustrates that the Administration’s Better Buildings Initiative (BBI) can put the nation’s commercial real estate (CRE) market on the road to recovery, creating at least 300,000 new U.S. jobs and boosting tax revenue to begin putting money back into federal, state, and local coffers.
The Administration’s BBI plan, unveiled early last month, mirrors similar CRE tax incentives called for by Architecture 2030 in the CRE Solution (June 2010). More
The 2030 Challenge for Products
Architecture 2030 unleashes the power of the pen with the 2030 Challenge for Products, a bold new initiative to reduce the embodied carbon in building products. More
