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The downtown area of Grand Rapids has been named an “Emerging District” by Santa Fe, N.M.-based nonprofit Architecture 2030. In an announcement this morning at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell said that the city In 2006, when Edward Mazria issued his challenge to fellow architects and others involved in the building industry, the energy future looked grim. The year before, the national task force overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney had issued a report that Architect Edward Mazria established Architecture 2030, a nonprofit, non-partisan and independent organization, in response to the climate change crisis in 2002. Architecture 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the United States and the global-building Stamford has become the sixth city in the nation and the first in New England to join a national program called the 2030 Districts. It’s designed to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions without relying on government. It's entirely voluntary and there Edward Mazria says that during parts of the 1970s and 1980s, New Mexico was the center of the universe for solar energy. "We kind of lost that, and the center has moved to Seattle — the cloudiest place maybe in the world," Mazria said. "We need to Many of you will recall Ed Mazria’s presentation from Cannon Design’s 2012 Environmental Awareness Week which focused on his non-profit organization, Architecture 2030 and its mission to rapidly transform the U.S. and global Building Sector from the .

Yesterday, Pittsburgh became the third city in two years to be named a 2030 District, as part of nonprofit Architecture 2030’s goal to use buildings to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Architecture 2030 would like to see all new buildings and renovations Buildings have the potential to save the world. Architecture 2030 is non-profit organization changing the way buildings are designed and constructed all over the world to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As students from the College of Studies have shown that buildings are the major source of demand for energy and materials that produce greenhouses gases. U.S. Buildings represent 38.9% of the primary energy use, accounts for 38% of all CO2 emissions and use 40% of raw materials globally. Today Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in response to the climate change crisis by architect Edward Mazria, issues its 2030 Challenge for Products, a plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from .