Lloyd Alter

Lloyd Alter has been an architect, real estate developer, and writer, and he was a contributor and editor at Treehugger.com for 15 years. He has written for The Guardian, Corporate Knights, and Azure magazines and is the author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle (New Society Publishers) and the forthcoming The Story of Upfront Carbon, to be released in 2024. He now teaches sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Reduce Embodied Carbon With Simple Forms
In addition to adding cost to a project, a complicated design is responsible for increased embodied carbon emissions.

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