04: CAAP: Buildings as Carbon Sinks

What is a truly sustainable building? Is it about how much dirty energy it consumes? The clean energy it produces? What about the building materials themselves and the “embodied carbon” they represent? What if those materials also were able to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester it from the environment? This is the subject of sustainable buildings leader Bruce King's coming lecture at San Antonio College.It's a message of special value in San Antonio today, as the City pursues the development of its first climate action plan.So far, the staff and volunteers working on San Antonio's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan have discussed changing building codes, promoting “green” roofs and passive solar. But when considering the potentials of carbon sequestration the CAAP's “Community Measures” focus primarily on the landscape: “increasing plant material, restoring the soil landscape, and all high-tech solutions.”

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