Rice’s Shell Center to host Carbon 2065 Workshop Oct. 29

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David Ruth
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Amy McCaig
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Rice’s Shell Center to host Carbon 2065 Workshop Oct. 29

HOUSTON – (Oct. 15, 2015) – Rice University’s Shell Center for Sustainability will host the Carbon 2065 Workshop Oct. 29 from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Dore Commons, located inside Baker Hall on the Rice campus.

“Cities do not easily change; they need a significant catalyst typically tied to an economic imperative,” said Albert Pope, the G.S. Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice and principal investigator for the Zero Carbon Development project, which will be featured at the workshop. “Carbon 2065 anticipates the emergence of an active carbon market and the dramatic effects it will have, not only on a post-carbon economy, but on the urban environments that this economy will produce. If the old carbon city was about extracting carbon from the ground and burning it, the new carbon city will be about extracting carbon from the sky and storing it.”

Carbon 2065 is a staged, 50-year urban plan for Houston’s Fifth Ward. In this feasible example, the project combines large-scale, mass-timber construction with a new form of carbon-intensive urban forestry. It attempts to envision the dramatic reductions in energy consumption that are needed to limit surface temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. The project was funded by the Shell Center in 2013 under the first Stress Nexus 2050 call for proposals.

WHAT: Carbon 2065 Workshop, hosted by Rice University’s Shell Center for Sustainability.

WHEN: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

WHERE: Dore Commons, located inside Baker Hall on the Rice campus (6100 Main St.).

The event is free for Rice students, faculty, staff and alumni and costs $35 for the general public. They can RSVP at https://signup.rice.edu/Carbon2065/. News media who want to attend should RSVP to Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777 or amym@rice.edu.

For more information on the Shell Center, visit http://shellcenter.rice.edu/.

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