CARBON + PEOPLE
2020 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: CARBON
This conversation will orient people and communities at the center of the climate and carbon conversation and highlight the varied ways people are impacted by climate changes and rising greenhouse gases, from air quality issues, to water pollution and flooding, to political advocacy. Catherine Flowers will tell her personal story of her evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion.
Learning objectives
- Understand how climate change impacts low-income communities disproportionately.
- Learn how air quality and water pollution can be minimized with simple measures for low incoming housing.
- Discover how to use architecture skills to improve environmental justice for under-served communities.
- Gain knowledge of how rural communities suffer unjustly and can be improved when building projects are designed using modest sustainable measures.
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Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers
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Instructors
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Lynne M. Dearborn
PhD, AIAProfessor of Architecture | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professor Lynne M. Dearborn PhD, AIA, leads curricular development in Health and the Built... -
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Founder | Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental... -
Jane Frederick
FAIA, LEED APPrincipal | Frederick + Frederick Architects
2020 President | American Institute of Architects
Jane Frederick, FAIA, is principal at Frederick + Frederick Architects, which received AIA South...