Embodied Carbon in Building Materials: the Next Challenge for Vermont’s Net Zero Goals?
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by Matt Bushey, AIA and Members of the AIAVT COTE Committee
Many of us have dealt with clean-energy skeptics over the years. Folks who dismiss solar panels because they claim more energy is used to produce the panels than they save. Or that the manufacture of electric cars produces more emissions than a conventional vehicle. While these false claims have been thoroughly debunked, the argument is based on a kernel of truth: that products and materials do use energy to manufacture. The whole process of raw material extraction, manufacturing, and transportation can use a large amount of
