Unknowingly, the architecture and building community is responsible for almost half of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions annually. Globally the percentage is even greater.

Combining the annual energy required to operate residential, commercial, and industrial buildings along with the embodied energy of industry-produced building materials like carpet, tile, glass, and concrete exposes buildings as the largest energy consuming and greenhouse gas emitting sector.

Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization, wants to attract the attention of the architectural community to this problem. They have a well-organized and convincing web site at www.architecture2030.org address.