The Energy Issues: Michelle Addington



The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue
The Energy Issues Panel Discussion
Recorded May 10, 2014

The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue was a symposium on energy and architecture organized by The Architectural League and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in May 2014.

The Energy Issues panel brought together a diverse group of architects and academics along with a filmmaker and a journalist to each present an idea on energy through his or her particular lens. Each short presentation invited response and conversation from the panel, allowing the themes of economics and investment, engagement and practice, design and technology, and communication and ethics, to emerge through the issue of energy.

In this segment, Michelle Addington cautions against our use of the term “energy efficiency,” which is a misleading phrase meant to demonstrate sustainability. The panel seizes on this notion of valuing energy in absolute terms — such as the imperative to emit no more than 5,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually, per capita — rather than the relational measurement of efficiency.

A Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Addington’s work focuses on defining the strategic relationships between differing scales of energy phenomena and possible actions from the domain of building construction.

The Five Thousand Pound Life (5KL) is an initiative of The Architectural League on new ways of thinking, talking, and acting on architecture, climate change, and our economic future.

The Energy Issue is a GSAPP initiative to make energy a cultural issue, launched in partnership with Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®. Follow the initiative @theenergyissue.

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