IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status…
French lawmakers voted to require solar panel covers in most large parking lots.
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Addressing climate change through advocacy, policy and planning
Architects, landscape architects and urban planners are influential brokers to facilitate change in the built environment, yet we rely upon experts and…
Implementing Carbon Budgets in New and Existing Buildings
Over the last two decades, the building industry has been developing new ways of decreasing energy use and related carbon emissions in new buildings – be it…
Enhancing the city’s role as a carbon sink: the San Francisco experience
What is a "carbon sink," and how can it help us fight climate change? Carbon sinks act like sponges that soak up more carbon from the atmosphere than they…
What will it take to go beyond net-zero?
The OAA Conference returned in person for the first time in two years, kicking off Wednesday, May 11th with a keynote panel discussing this year’s theme:…
Book Review: Everything Needs to Change—Architecture and the Climate Emergency
Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and Nick Newman (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Over the last 18 months, we have all thought a lot about change: with Covid-19, wildfires…
New Coalition spotlights the built environment’s potential in accelerating…
A coalition led by C40, the Global Alliance for Building and Construction (GlobalABC), The Resilience Shift, World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
The cost (and necessity) of fuel-switching
Our current Prime Minister is our COVID Prime Minister. The next Prime Minister will be our climate change prime minister. They will be the PM that meets the UN…
Architects Declare: It’s Time to Regroup
Canada Architects Declare has announced its next National Gathering on Friday, June 25th. The online event seeks to empower change in the building sector, in…
New research suggests 1.5C climate target will be out of reach without greener…
Global fossil fuel emissions dropped by about seven per cent in 2020 compared with 2019. But a rebound is likely to occur when lockdowns ease up unless COVID-19…
Urban Land Institute report urges Toronto to improve its aging housing towers
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has released a report based on recommendations from an Advisory Services panel of sustainability and affordable housing experts.…
Ontario Association of Architects Joins Workforce 2030
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), along with 14 other design and construction stakeholders, has joined Workforce 2030, a new coalition led by the…
Manifestos on the Climate Crisis
To mark the first anniversary of Canada’s Architects Declare initiative, we’re publishing the original text of the declaration, signed by over 200 practices. We…
Embodied Carbon: Key Considerations for Key Materials
The challenge we face is overwhelming and complex. Our industry’s emissions currently account for 40 percent of total global annual CO2 emissions. Of that, a…
Book Review: Modern Architecture and Climate—Design before Air Conditioning
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning
By Daniel A. Barber (Princeton University Press, 2020)
It’s been more than 50 years since…
This Friday: Online forum invites Canadian architects to strategize on climate…
On September 25th, the school strike movement Fridays For Future is calling for a global climate action day that will see demonstrations adjusted according to…