An Opportunity for Success
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HUBERT MURRAY
is vice president of the Boston Society of Architects and runs an architectural and planning practice in Cambridge. |
By Hubert Murray
We know the issues: We are running out of fish, the earth is warming up, water is running out, oil and gas prices are going up and whole cities are underwater. If you really want to give yourself a scare you could visit www.architecture2030.com and get an excellent overview of what awaits us unless we sharpen up. This is the Web site of respected environmentalist Ed Mazria, who warns us that unless we reduce the fossil fuel consumption of our buildings in the United States by 70 percent by 2015 and we are carbon-neutral (that is, using no fossil fuels at all) by 2030, we are all toast.
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