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Reality Check

Foster + Partners claims the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue is highly sustainable. If only that were true.

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One-Stop Shop

Minoro is a new platform by Grimshaw Architects designed to accelerate building decarbonization

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Road Work

Eco Material Technologies manufactures a green cement that can be used to surface roadways and build homes

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Pen on Paper

U.S. Department of Energy issues national definition of a zero-emissions building

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Market Signal

Gensler’s Product Sustainability (GPS) Standards are a step toward a more circular economy and less carbon-intensive industry

Environmental Saviorism

Geo-Fantasies at Citygroup peels back the layers of the carbon capture industry

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Now or Never

Earth Day Digest: Stories keeping AN editors hopeful about the planet’s future

Crystal Clear

Architects, engineers, and contractors support a nationwide definition of what constitutes a zero-emissions building

All Along the Watchtower

Seattle City Council passes the most progressive legislation in its history to reduce building emissions

Set By Example

ASLA’s new, freely available guide charts a path for landscape architecture firms to achieve zero-carbon business operations

Straw, Wood, and Stone

How to Build a Low-Carbon Home is an accessible and instructive guide for home-building during the climate emergency

Architecture 2030 Is Not Enough

Carbon accounting will only take us so far: The data reveals that architecture’s next challenge is to do more with less.

Thinking Through LCAs

Decarbonization consultant William Beer shares his thoughts about efforts to reduce emissions from the manufacture of building materials

Mass Timber: It’s What’s for Dinner

The potentials and provocations of architecture’s favorite eco-material

Leading By Example

Governor Hochul’s Buy Clean Concrete program seeks to reduce embodied carbon in New York state building projects

Outgrowing Portland

Cement production has an emissions problem. Here’s how companies are addressing it.

London Calling

In London, M&S files High Court appeal against State of Secretary Gove’s Marble Arch refusal

Clarity Revisited 

Glass transparency and circularity should reshape how the industry operates

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