"The New Green U: Design educators are choosing different paths for guiding tomorrow’s architects toward a carbon-free future"

[By B.J. Novitski, GreenSource]

Some architecture schools in North America and around the world have been teaching sustainable practices for decades, while others have neglected the field altogether. By now, most green practitioners are familiar with the “2030 Challenge,” developed and promoted by architect/activist Edward Mazria. This challenge, adopted by the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council, and many other groups, is to reach carbon neutrality—using no fossil-fuel greenhouse gas-emitting energy to operate buildings—by the year 2030. Possibly less familiar is the companion “2010 Imperative,” to achieve “complete ecological literacy in design education” by next year. Authors of the imperative believe such a crash course is needed to produce the next generation of architects capable of rising to the challenge. While most educators are struggling to incorporate sustainable design into the curriculum, some schools are way ahead of the game.

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