Carbon and architecture

Carbon emissions, construction and the architects in the middle.

Architect Stephanie Carlisle examines the role of architects and the building industry in global carbon emissions, and calls for a trade-wide engagement with the environmental impact with the costs of building and powering the built environment before it all comes crashing down.

Stephanie is author of the essay I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect for Fast Company.

The Grotesque Old Pious

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen awakens one stormy afternoon and discovers the dark literary roots of America's ancient evil, and then the gibbering maw of America's very modern evil, just walking around in plain sight, ready to devour our souls for the old conservative gods.

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