The Architecture 2030 Campaign is making coal it's number one target in fighting global warming:

Coal is the only fossil fuel plentiful enough and supposedly ‘cheap’ enough to push the planet to 450 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere - an event which will trigger potentially irreversible glacial melt and sea level rise. 53% of Americans live in and around coastal cities and towns and, beginning with just one meter of sea level rise, many of these cities and towns will be inundated.

According to a full-page ad in the New York Times, we can avert the worst consequences of climate change if we:

1.  Stop building coal-fired power plants and phase out existing coal plants; and,

2.  since buildings use 76% percent of coal energy produced at power plants, we can make a significant difference by increasing building efficiency, and employing on-site renewable energy sources

See posting in : Inhabitat.com

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