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COTE news: January/February 2022

  • 1.  COTE news: January/February 2022

    Posted 01-18-2022 12:57 PM
    The January/February issue of COTE news dropped on Wednesday ... you can check it out here: 
    https://bit.ly/COTEnews_JanFeb22.

    This issue includes

    perspective from the 2022 COTE chair, Billie Faircloth, FAIA, on COTE priorities and the year ahead ...

    an advocacy update from Michael Davis FAIA LEED ...

    a look back at COP26 from Julie Hiromoto, FAIA ...

    the latest 2030 Commitment report from Gwen Fuertes, AIA ...

    news about the COTE network of (55!) chapters from Kendall Claus, AIA ...

    info about the Metropolis Magazine interiors toolkit by Jonathan Penndorf, FAIA

    Allison Anderson FAIA, LEED-AP in conversation with Ann Kosmal about adaptation ...

    and articles about two COTE leaders who died in 2021: Lance Hosey (remembered by Anne Hicks Harney, FAIA) and Jim Binkley (remembered by Penndorf).

    Brad Jacobson reports on the AIA HQ renovation and other "reprints" include the voices of

    Katie Ackerly (in COMMON EDGE COLLABORATIVE),
    Clark Brockman and Lindsey Naganuma (on carbon/renovation in GreenBiz Group),
    Edward Mazria with Martin Pedersen (on COP26), and
    Ethan Tucker (on "embodied justice"), among others.

    AND more! 

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    Kira Gould
    Kira Gould CONNECT
    Oakland CA
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