Member Impact – March 2024

Member Impact – March 2024

What are you and your organization doing to help reduce embodied carbon emissions? Jaein Lee Architectural Designer, Elkus Manfredi Architects Growing up, my family went through a special ritual every Tuesday night: recycling. We had two huge cardboard boxes on the...
GSA Low Carbon Materials Funding

GSA Low Carbon Materials Funding

GSA Announces 150+ Projects with $2 billion in Funding for Clean Construction Materials Primary Authors: Meghan Lewis (Carbon Leadership Forum), Walter Tersch (GSA), Katie Poss (Building Transparency) In August 2022, the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Section...
Member Impact – February 2024

Member Impact – February 2024

What are you and your organization doing to help reduce embodied carbon emissions? Mary Roggenbuck Building Performance Engineer, Mortenson Growing up on my family’s farm in western Minnesota, where we composted and lived off the land, I learned to live as a...
Introducing Azeezah Sultana Priyota

Introducing Azeezah Sultana Priyota

Research Assistant, UW Azeezah is a research assistant at the University of Washington. She is pursuing a Master of Science in Design Technology from the College of Built Environment at UW. Before joining the CLF, Azeezah worked at an architectural firm in Bangladesh...
Introducing Michelle Lambert

Introducing Michelle Lambert

Policy and Engagement Manager Michelle Lambert is a Policy and Engagement Manager at CLF. She leads research on public policies targeting embodied carbon with the goal of decarbonizing building materials and reducing the carbon impact of our built environment. She is...
Carbon Reflections: A Tipping Point?

Carbon Reflections: A Tipping Point?

by Andrew Himes Director of Collective Impact, Carbon Leadership Forum I’ve been wondering for years now when we (the North American building industry, to be specific) might reach a tipping point for awareness, capacity, and action to radically reduce embodied carbon...