Interface introduces project-specific embodied carbon metrics on all floor plans created by its Design Studio. This industry-first initiative allows customers to easily understand the carbon impact of their flooring choices, comparing Interface products to industry averages.

Although most energy in homes is used for heating and hot water, significant amounts of energy are also used when a house is built. A lifecycle assessment of a low-energy, affordable timber house indicates that large energy and carbon savings can be made when alternatives to traditional methods of construction are used.

Given how dreadful most new housing is these days, this is at least the minimum builders should build and customers should expect.

Architects are finally taking it seriously. It's about time.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

A conference on sustainable construction in the Can of Ham is in denial about upfront carbon emissions

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

They should rename the town of Asbestos after this stuff.