2007Q4


10.01.07 | Q4 2007 HAVE YOU BEEN GREENED YET?



Article Highlights:

• Greenbuild 2007 tops 20,000 attendees
• Architecture 2030 calls for carbon emissions reductions in buildings
• City of Los Angeles moves forward on Green Building Program proposal
• MAI’s LEED Silver project in Thousand Oaks starts construction

Global climate change and environmental issues have grabbed top billing all across the country in 2007, from cars to politics to movie stars – even a Nobel Peace Prize. This trend has been just as boisterous in the building industry as the United States Green Building Council welcomed its 10,000th member organization. In November of each year, the USGBC sponsors Greenbuild, the largest gathering of green building industry professionals and product manufacturers in the country. A record breaking 22,000 people attended this year, up from 4,000 in the inaugural event held just five years ago. The group’s freshly minted prominence showed. Former President Clinton addressed the group as the conference’s keynote speaker, announcing the Clinton Climate Initiative as a sponsor of the USGBC’s Build Green Schools Initiative. You can see his speech and others at www.greenbuild365.org and more about the program at www.buildgreenschools.org.

Perhaps the most mentioned subject at Greenbuild was reducing our environmental footprint through carbon neutral buildings. This is in response to increasingly disturbing information regarding global climate change and carbon emissions fueling this trend, which is largely attributed to the consumption of fossil fuels.Architecture 2030 is the coalition led by building industry professionals to set a vision for reducing carbon emissions by buildings by 60% by 2010 and increasing incrementally to carbon neutrality by 2030. This movement particularly focuses on reducing energy demand so coal burning energy plants can be retired, one of the largest single contributors to carbon emissions. This effort is gaining significant political steam both in California and nationally. On December 5th the 2030 Challenge targets were adopted by the California Energy Commission and have also influenced the latest energy bill in the House of Representatives in Washington DC.

See SF Chronicle on Energy Commission Adoption
See LA Times Story on House of Representatives Energy Bill

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