Mission Accomplished?
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
2011 Purpose Prize
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
The 2030 E-News Bulletin
Get the latest updates on Architecture 2030's cutting-edge work and information on the rapidly changing Building Sector. More
AIA+2030 Professional Series
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
Seattle 2030 District
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
Just the Facts
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
Nuclear Energy: Fact Check
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
Who's On Top?
The annual Design Futures Council 2010 Sustainable Design Survey of 240 design industry leaders in the U.S. was released this month, ranking Architecture 2030 among the top three most effective organizations (USGBC, AIA, and Architecture 2030) advancing green building design and construction in the U.S. today. More
2030 Goes Code
On October 31, code and government officials meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina voted to improve the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) standard by 30% beyond the 2006 IECC as called for by Architecture 2030, and by a large coalition including the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Association of State Energy Officials, congressional officials and the broad-based Energy Efficient Codes Coalition (EECC) of which Architecture 2030 is a member. More
The CRE Solution
Without swift intervention, the commercial real estate (CRE) crisis will cripple the economic recovery, raise unemployment, and lead to scores of small business and community bank failures. To avert this crisis, Architecture 2030 recommends that Congress implement the ‘CRE Solution’, providing a tax deduction tied to specific energy reduction targets that will create 1.3 million jobs while restoring credit capacity and liquidity in the CRE market. More
Building Sector Intervention Points
A New White Paper from Architecture 2030 identifies the critical intervention points for major transformation to affect change in the residential and commercial building sectors. More
Near-Term Phaseout of CO2 Emissions
NASA/NREL/Architecture 2030 - The global climate problem becomes tractable if CO2 emissions from coal use are phased out rapidly and emissions from unconventional fossil fuels (e.g., oil shale and tar sands) are prohibited. This paper outlines technology options for phasing out coal emissions in the United States by ∼2030. More
Nation Under Siege
Beginning with just one meter of sea level rise, our nation would be physically under siege, with calamitous and destabilizing consequences. More
Edward Mazria's Senate Testimony
On February 26, Edward Mazria was called before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to give expert testimony on reducing energy consumption in buildings. More
Meeting the 2030 Challenge Through Building Codes
A single chart provides the key to deciphering various building energy codes, standards and rating systems to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge. More
Obama's Jobs Plan: A Cue from King Solomon
With regards to his Jobs Plan, President Obama would do well to take a cue from King Solomon. He should base his Jobs Plan on what he knows without question to be true: it is private sector investment that creates sustainable jobs, yet it goes against human nature to invest during an economic downturn unless it makes good financial sense to do so. More
The One-Year, 4.5-Million-Jobs Plan
Investing $30 billion in the private building sector to provide a ‘housing mortgage interest rate buy-down’ for homes that meet or exceed the initial energy reduction target of the widely adopted 2030 Challenge will create 4.5 million new jobs and $296 billion in direct, non-federal investment and spending while opening up a new $47.6 billion renovation market that could grow to $1 trillion by 2030. More
Oh, Those Sexy Building Codes
Buried deep within the 1,428-page Waxman-Markey climate bill (H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) passed by the House and now on the Senate floor, is Section 201, pages 320-348. It is this section that makes H.R. 2454 worth passing. More
Are 100 New Nuclear Plants the Answer?
How much energy could we deliver by building 100 new nuclear power plants in the U.S. by 2030? More
