Architecture 2030: Wear Blue to Show You’re Green on Earth Day

Architecture 2030, the nonprofit research organization founded by Ed Mazria, AIA, invites you to join the “BYOBlue for Earth Day 2008” event by wearing blue on Earth Day, April 22, to signify your support for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any new conventional coal-fired power plants. Then, on April 22, they suggest you make your voice heard by calling Congress, 202-224-3121, and asking for an immediate “Moratorium on Coal—a halt to the construction of any new conventional coal-fired power plants.” Through this Earth Day Network Call for Climate event, Architecture 2030 (this is not an AIA-sponsored initiative) hopes to generate more than a million phone calls to Congress. As the Earth Policy Institute points out, of the 151 conventional coal plants in the planning stage in early 2007, 59 were cancelled last year and some 50 more currently are being contested.