Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future

Climate change is no longer an abstract threat. Day after day, an already disrupted climate is impacting the lives of millions, and the time available to curtail climate change is alarmingly limited.Going for zero greenhouse gas emissions requires retooling everything about industry, agriculture, transportation, and every city and town that people inhabit.The work of architects, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers and the countless others who shape the built environment has never been more relevant.Decarbonizing how buildings are designed, constructed, and operated is a sea change that is already altering professional principles and practices.In Going for Zero: Carbon free Buildings and the Path to Our Urban Future, seasoned architect and former AIA president Carl Elefante addresses how buildings and cities can and must help resolve the looming climate emergency.Elefante offers a decidedly alternative viewpoint, one informed by his architecture career rescuing buildings fr