Studio O+A’s Guide to Design With Our Future in Mind
We acknowledge... That buildings and the construction industry are two of the greatestif not the greatest-emitters of carbon dioxide worldwide, 40-50% by various measurements. That buildings and the construction industry contribute significantly to climate change, resource depletion, environmental health degradation, habitat degradation, and biodiversity loss. That we have fewer than seven years to dramatically reduce or eliminate our carbon emissions before the effects of those emissions become irreversible: famine, drought, floods, conflict, displacement. That only 27.8% of the world’s energy is from renewables. That the design and construction industries, which in much of the Western world are the product of a white male-dominated culture, contribute directly and indirectly to the vast and increasing economic, social, cultural, and environmental disparities of the global citizenry.
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