The New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Climate

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“Green buildings” that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all of the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon―the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported―comprising some ten percent of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate.

It doesn’t must be this way.

Like never before in history, buildings can turn into a part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, We will be able to pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We will be able to literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive affect.

The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Place of job towers built from advanced wood products; reasonably priced, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We will be able to even grow insulation from mycelium.

A tour de force by the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers, and everyone else captivated by the potential of architecture to heal the climate and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

Bruce King, a structural engineer for thirty-five years, is Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet) and creator of Buildings of Earth and Straw, Making Better Concrete, and Design of Straw Bale Buildings. He lives in San Rafael, California.

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