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#7 Family Planning

For women to have children by choice rather than chance and to plan their family size and spacing is a matter of autonomy and dignity. Family planning can also have ripple effects on drawing down greenhouse gas emissions...

#6 Educating Girls

Girls education it turns out has a dramatic effect on global warming.

#5 Tropical Forest Restoration

When we lose forests primarily to agricultural expansion or human settlement carbon dioxide discharges into the atmosphere. Tropical forest loss alone is responsible for 16-19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity...

#4 Plant Rich Diet

If 50% of the world’s population restricts their diet to a healthy 2,500 calories a day and reduces meat consumption overall, we estimate at least 26.7 gigatonnes of emissions could be avoided from dietary change alone.

#3 Reduced Food Waste

One of the great miracles of life on this planet is the creation of food... The food we waste contributes roughly 8 percent of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

#2 Wind Turbines

Onshore wind turbines generate electricity at a utility scale, comparable to power plants. They replace fossil fuels with emissions-free electricity.

#1 Refrigerants

In October 2016 officials from more than 170 countries gathered in Kigali, Rwanda to negotiate a deal to address the problem of CFCs. John Kerry has said it is, “the biggest thing we can do (for climate) in one giant swoop”.

Drawdown

"I strongly recommend you buy this book, Drawdown, and read it cover to cover like I have." Ewan Brown, Director, Tennent Brown Architects

Living Building Challenge Definitions

What do you think is the percentage declared for this example?

LBC 3.1 Materials Research and Engineered Timber

We have found some engineered timber to be FSC certified and Red List free with the exception of phenol formaldehyde.

Tennent Brown Architects a Founding Signatory of Architects Declare NZ

The twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the most serious issue of our time. Tennent Brown Architects is one of twenty-seven New Zealand founding signatories supporting the New Zealand Architect’s Declare initiative.

Living Building Challenge Materials Research

Our journey with the Living Building Challenge has included materials research under LBC 3.0 for Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana and Te Tii and under LBC 3.1 for Gisborne Airport.