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1 week ago |
metropolismag.com | Avinash Rajagopal
Renewable energy growth, carbon benchmarking, and circular design strategies shaping the built environment. By: Avinash Rajagopal01 Energy ShiftAmerican renewable energy smashed records in 2024. Solar and wind energy overtook coal for the first time in 2024 as sources of electricity in the United States.
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1 week ago |
metropolismag.com | Avinash Rajagopal
METROPOLIS’s 2025 Spring Issue spotlights designers and architects going the extra mile, redefining what it means to design for climate, community, and lasting impact. By: Avinash RajagopalThis May, nearly half of New York City’s buildings will have to start reporting their operating carbon emissions with the Department of Buildings to comply with Local Law 97, the ambitious legislation aimed at getting buildings to Net Zero by 2050.
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2 months ago |
metropolismag.com | Avinash Rajagopal
Local laws, easy-to-access tools, and global initiatives keep the momentum on green building going. By: Avinash Rajagopal01 Local Laws AbideAs federal support wanes, states and cities forge ahead. The fate of federal support for environmentally friendly design and construction hangs in the balance at the time of writing, with the U.S. government’s Buy Clean initiative rescinded by the current administration.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
metropolismag.com | Avinash Rajagopal
METROPOLIS’s Winter 2024 issue highlights how architects and designers are thinking about sustainability today. By: Avinash Rajagopal“What if our homes and workplaces were like trees, living organisms participating productively in their surroundings?” asked William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their 2002 essay “Buildings like Trees, Cities like Forests” (The Catalog of the Future, Pearson Press).
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Jan 15, 2025 |
metropolismag.com | Avinash Rajagopal
“Alignment” is the word of the hour in every sector of the building industry, as different stakeholders come together to tackle climate impacts. The federal government is one of the biggest buyers of building materials in the United States—federally funded purchases account for more than half of all concrete poured in the country per year, for example.
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