Theory Hour

Today in Theory hour John Linn came in to speak to us about Sustainability and Architecture 2030. The PowerPoint started with a slide about fish and “if we were fish what would we see?” He stressed that how we affect the overall environment and how it can even be seen by creatures that aren’t even in our own species. Linn then explained that the human race is a storm. That just like a storm, our race is destroying the Earth. We destroy our path and then we construct again. Humans are a dynamic agent of transformation. There is no destruction without construction.  That we do so much damage, yet we are not even a place or even a thing.

Linn concluded his speech by telling us about our carbon footprint.  The twenty-thirty challenge was created to measure the carbon footprint being left each year by the human race and what we can do to slow it down. . The challenge is to get buildings to give off no carbon releases and be neutral by year 2030. Organizations named LEED and AIA were designed to find alternate energy sources besides carbon. LEED stands for Leadership Environmental Energy Design. They set target goals to change carbon usage by 50% right now and then 10% every year following that.  Linn said that buildings need to be able withstand time and not be locked into its energy source. Instead, to change like we do.