Comments on: INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Ed Mazria from Architecture 2030

By: Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:59:09 +0000

Given this challenge: “That the project be designed to engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuels.”

There is one design that could answer that challenge fully and dramatically: Designing and building safe, non-GHG-emitting nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power can make the entire electrical energy sector carbon-neutral and de-link total energy usage from global warming. Seventy-six percent of all electricity generated by US power plants goes to supply the Building Sector. Building 300 nuclear power plants would be enough to make that entire portion of our energy consumption non-fossil fuel based, and this is not an impractical goal, as it is merely bringing the US up to where France and Japan are in terms of use of nuclear power for electricity production.

By: Nikos Karamesinis

Nikos Karamesinis — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:51:22 +0000

Actually quite an informative article since I am on the beginning of a project which aims to give as a boost to develop a few houses in a settlement that has near zero or zero carbon footprint. Thank you for all the important information.

Karamesinis Nikos
DMU Leicester
BArch

By: Sustainable Sean

Sustainable Sean — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:08:33 +0000

Absolutely AWESOME interview and article. Kudos to Mazria and you guys!

By: Pink Robe

Pink Robe — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:51:18 +0000

Excellent article! We’re meeting with an architect in a couple of days to talk about a reno of our home, and I’m definitely going to be talking to him about these topics.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:38:22 +0000

Just a quick note: somehow, in posting this, all of the interview’s links disappeared! So you’re left with a bunch of fake links that go nowhere.

However, we’ll be fixing that over the next few hours – so by late afternoon or so those should be fully functional.

Sorry about any confusion, meanwhile -

By: Nick Simpson

Nick Simpson — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:56:52 +0000

Haven’t had chance to read the whole article yet – having to head into Uni, where I’ll sit and read it right the way through – but this is EXACTLY what should be happening over there. What a brilliant guy! And to put it into context, we’ve just been told here in the UK that all housing must be carbon neutral within the next 10 years (and we’ve been one of the slowest of the bigger countries to adopt environmental legislation in Europe). So even with another long-term Republican government (please, please no…) there’ll be plenty of evidence by even 2020 to show that it’s easy to do and there’s no excuses for the government not to go with this.