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Manufacturers Catch Up on Embodied Carbon

Interiors manufacturers are recognizing the need for greater material transparency and responding to the demand for information on their carbon emissions.

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3 Sustainability News Updates for Q1 2024

These three developments from the last few months are critical knowledge for anyone interested in sustainable architecture and interior design.

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What Architects and Designers Need to Know About Embodied Carbon

From complex topics such as carbon form to advice on how to specify carbon-neutral furniture, METROPOLIS provides a lay of the land for carbon and design.

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Designed Landscapes Are Surprisingly Carbon Intensive (And They Don’t Have to Be)

Urban landscapes often include plenty of hardscape made with materials that can have significant carbon footprints.

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Confronting Carbon Form, Embodied Carbon’s Complex Cousin

A recent exhibition at Cooper Union put forward a cogent definition of Carbon Form, our infrastructure’s deep indebtedness to extractive modes of production.

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How Can a Building Become “Zero Carbon”?

As we grapple with the full life cycle of all materials and surfaces in a project, how we view "net zero" is set to change.

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A Case for a More Literal Architecture

By moving away from processes of abstraction, writes Kiel Moe, we might arrive at a clearer picture of the terrestrial web of life that supports architecture.

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Lighting’s Dark Secret: Embodied Carbon in the LED Industry

Energy-efficient LEDs have a fat carbon footprint. The Lighting industry is beginning to grapple with the amount of embodied carbon in its materials.

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What Architects Need to Know about Carbon

Opinion: Prompted by the latest issue of Log, Mario Carpo offers a primer for understanding the nuances of carbon and “carbon form.”

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Radical Change in the Building Industry Is Desperately Needed, and It Can’t Happen Without Building Trades

Workers in the building sector are uniquely positioned to make the demand for an ecologically responsible architecture and the renewable energy to operate it.

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A Great Carbon Reckoning Comes to Architecture

Architects have finally begun taking a more nuanced approach to the carbon emitted by new buildings. Are they too late?