COURSE: Architects and Climate Politics: Understanding the Forces Blocking Environmental Progress

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This episode explores the intersection of architecture and climate politics, examining the forces that hinder environmental progress.

Welcome to the Gābl Media Continuing Education podcast feed! Each podcast is approved for continuing education credits. Architects and Climate Politics: Understanding the Forces Blocking Environmental Progress AIA CES program ID: GMGG.007 Approved LUs: 1.0 LU|HSW Prerequisites: None Program level: Entry Advance learner preparation: None How did a shift in political tactics, a revolution in media, and fossil-fuel money combine to make climate science feel “debatable,” even as the architecture profession was building the early foundations of green design? This course session follows the machinery that manufactured doubt in the United States, starting with the escalation of confrontational political strategy amplified by new media visibility, then moving into the long-lasting ecosystem of conservative outlets, think tanks, and corporate networks that learned how to turn uncertainty into a permanent feature of public life. Against that backdrop, it tracks the profession’s parallel arc toward sustainable practice, from early green architecture in the seventies and eighties to the creation of the AIA Committee on the Environment, the founding of the U.S. Green Building Council, and the…

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Host: Gābl Media

Topics covered

• climate politics
• architecture
• sustainable design
• environmental progress
• media influence
• political strategy

Keywords

• climate science
• green architecture
• sustainability
• political tactics
• media visibility
• environmental policy

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Organizations: AIA, U.S. Green Building Council, UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol

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