UID:
edocfu_9960963935902883
Format:
1 online resource (282 pages)
ISBN:
1-64283-212-X
Content:
""Net Zero" has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signaling a goal of having every building "need nothing", generating at least as much energy as it uses. Enormous strides have been made in improving the performance of every type of new building as well as, even more importantly, renovating the vast and energy-inefficient collection of existing buildings in every country. If we can get every building to net zero energy use in the next few decades, it will be a huge success, but it will not be enough. While we pursue net zero-with better insulation, air sealing, windows, air conditioners, solar photovoltaics, and other components of an efficient building-we need to look at what we make all those things with, and at the supply chains that deliver all those products and materials to a jobsite. By various estimates, the production of building materials accounts for 10 to 15 percent of global warming emissions; buildings are a culprit but at the same time stand poised to act as climate healers. The construction industry with its exuberant consumption of materials can become a huge repository for the carbon we retrieve from the sky in the form of trees and plants we already grow, in the form of emissions we capture at the smokestacks of industrial plants, and as a result of our nascent but growing partnership with the fungi, bacteria and microbes that can help us deal with pollutants and "grow" buildings without fossil fuels. In Build Beyond Zero the authors, and a few select contributors, provide a snapshot of a beginning, and map towards, a carbon-smart built environment that acts as a CO2 filter. They invite the reader to imagine the very real potential for our built environment to be a site of net carbon storage, a massive drawdown pool that could-along with intentional climate-positive efforts in every other sector of human endeavor-heal our climate"--
Note:
Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Definitions -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Story of Carbon: The Birth of the Universe, of Carbon, and of Life -- Chapter 2: A Brief History of Green Building: Waking Up to Climate Emergency -- Box 2.1: The Existing Building Solution -- Chapter 3: Life Cycle Analysis: Tracking Carbon's Stocks and Flows -- Chapter 4: Metals and Minerals: Steeling Ourselves -- Chapter 5: Concrete: Many Ways to Make a Rock -- Box 5.4: The Case for Modern Earthen Building -- Box 5.5: More than a Floor -- Box 5.6: Entering the North American Market as an Earth Block Producer -- Box 5.7: Can We Grow Carbon-Storing Buildings? -- Chapter 6: Biological Architecture: Wood and Mass Timber, Agricultural Byproducts, Purpose-Grown Crops, Waste Stream Fibers, and Lab-Grown Materials -- Box 6.2: Landscape Architecture: Connecting to the Carbon Conversation -- Chapter 7: Witches' Brew: Plastics, Chemistry, and Carbon -- Chapter 8: Construction: On Site and Under Zero -- Chapter 9: Education: We All Need Schooling to Make This Possible -- Chapter 10: Circular Economy: Extending the Lifespan of Captured Carbon -- Chapter 11: Policy and Governance: Twenty-First-Century Cat Herding -- Chapter 12: A Just Transition: Building a Better Society Means More than Capturing Carbon -- Box 12.3: A Manifesto for the Pivotal Decade -- Chapter 13: The Next Three Decades: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Chapter 14: What's Next? Wow. Just Wow. -- Endnotes -- Contributors -- Authors -- Island Press | Board of Directors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64283-211-1
Language:
English
