The green economy is highly subsidized & very profitable. We must demand that jobs in these existing and emerging fields are good, union jobs. Save the planet & workers!

“It doesn't say anything about not building stuff that we don't need, about using low carbon materials and, of course, it doesn't mention airports.” “ treehugger.com/united-nations…

Important piece by John Lorinc . Do we even have enough tradespeople to build the housing we want to build? And there are multiple constraints on the talent pipeline, including, ironically, housing affordability. Featuring Megan Kinch theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…

This Monday October 17 at 7:00 EST on line or in person join us at the Cooper Union: The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group with the Cooper Climate Coalition: A Just Transition for Architecture cooper.edu/events-and-exh…

Tomorrow!!!! October 17 at 7:00 EST on line or in person join us at the Cooper Union: The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group with the Cooper Climate Coalition: A Just Transition for Architecture cooper.edu/events-and-exh…

T-O-D-A-Y in just 3 hrs Oct 17 at 7:00 EST on-line or IRL join us at the Cooper Union (registration req’d) The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group with the Cooper Climate Coalition: A Just Transition for Architecture cooper.edu/events-and-exh… cooper.edu/events-and-exh…

Some of my new favorite people sharing a stage. The Architecture Lobby GND Working Group

“Architects are fossil fuel workers!” The Architecture Lobby GND Working Group ’s fight to transform the profession starts from a simple realization. It means building power is essential bc the status quo leaves no room for true climate justice, nor agency for workers.

Rishika Pardikar I don't think carbon markets were ever intended to deliver the scale of mitigation necessary to stay within our 1.5-2°C carbon budgets. They were/are a ruse to delay action &, most importantly, avoid asking the absolutely key questions around equity (between & within countries).

Unpopular opinion perhaps but academics will always play catch-up with the discourses and practices advanced politically and collectively by social movements.

Architect in the academic news.

serious cultural and intellectual work are increasingly unsustainable as anything more than a hobby. yeah the US has never been the necessary state intervention to democratize them but it's really bad right now

After everything, there are still times when Twitter really delivers.

Today, myself and Rep. Dan Goldman introduced the Public Housing Emergency Response Act. This bill would allocate $70 billion in funding for public housing capital repairs and upgrades throughout the country.

One Year: The Day the Music Stopped - 99% Invisible 99percentinvisible.org/episode/one-ye…

On Monday, 20 March, the #IPCC will release the final part of the Sixth Assessment Report, #ClimateChange 2023: Synthesis Report. It integrates the findings of six IPCC #ClimateReports. 5/6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability ➡️ bit.ly/WGIIRept

Honest question: do people think unions would ever do something similar but in the name of the ecological crisis?

A really great event and chance for labor to organize to demand more of our industry and the policy makers that set the rules for the standards that our projects need to meet NEXT WEEK!!

We envision a new economy that is ecologically responsible and vastly more equal. Join us, @arch_lobby, and New York Review of Architecture this Thursday (!!), as we kick off the Alternative Building Industry Collective

On Thursday, we’re launching the Alternative Building Industries (ABI) Collective, an initiative of Science for the People and The Architecture Lobby GND Working Group in a public forum at 7pm at Cooper Union and on Zoom: lu.ma/abico