Designing to Cool the Climate

Architecture is just starting to take on its role as climate healer by transforming buildings from massive carbon emitters into effective carbon sponges. The technology already exists, and gets better every day; building with plants, wood and emissions we retrieved from the air, bring the carbon home in buildings made from the sky.

Bruce King will share how our building materials choices can positively impact our climate. He has served as a Green/Clean Tech adviser to numerous startups and other organizations, and is Founder and Director of Ecological Building Network (EBNet), a nonprofit coalition of engineers, builders, and architects developing and disseminating best technologies for the built environment. He has studied both historic and innovative building systems from all over the globe, and has direct experience in engineering and building with just about every ’alternative' system out there - as well as all the mainstream systems.

He will be joined by the New Energy Works and Pioneer Millworks teams for this session.

Proceeds from each ticket sold will be donated to the Borneo Project to fight deforestation in Indonesia.

This event is sponsored by Design Portland (https://designportland.org/).

Friday 24 April 2020, 3:00 to 5:00 PM PDT

Portland Design Studio
2609 SE 6th Avenue
Portland, OR 97202

Price: $10. Discounts and fees may apply.

Visit the event webpage (https://designportland.org/festival/2020/schedule/designing-to-cool-the-climate) for more information or to register. Click through to the sponsor for instructions. This event and its sponsor are not affiliated with Green Making (http://www.greenmaking.com/index.php). This announcement is a courtesy for our members.