Dear EarthTalk: What is so-called “embodied carbon” and what percent of our greenhouse gas emissions does it make up? And more important, how can we reduce it? – Mike O., Durham, NC As the process of ...

The use of concrete in the construction of new infrastructure is a significant contributor to the widespread challenge of reducing embodied carbon. Embodied carbon are the carbon dioxide emissions ...

The fires across Canada this summer have devastated natural ecosystems and caused air pollution across borders. Image © Landon Parenteau on Unsplash Although ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building Transparency, a nonprofit organization that provides open access data and tools to foster a better building future, today announces it has expanded access of the ...

An amendment to the California building code going into effect July 1 will require owners of new buildings 100K SF or larger to comply with a set of rules aimed at reducing embodied carbon. This ...

California is now the first state in the country to formally implement general code requirements for reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. “It can take up to 80 years to overcome embodied ...

Buildings are one of our biggest contributors to global heating. They produce 37% of all greenhouse gas emissions from energy use and production processes. Building emissions are made up of two parts: ...

Insulation plays an essential role in today’s buildings—whether it is to provide thermal efficiency to reduce energy demand and cut carbon emissions, or to reduce noise transmission to provide ...

So at 52 he enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. There, one of his professors was David Benjamin, an architect who studies buildings’ carbon ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim, Byung-Suk) made a groundbreaking achievement in the field of ecological building technology with the development ...

There has never been a more important time to take responsibility for our actions. The world is experiencing unprecedented rates of change in climate, energy supply, technology, and business. The ...