According to a UN Report, it is expected that by the year 2050, the world’s population will reach approximately 9.6 billion people, which means that our already diminishing resources will have an increase in demand. Due to this overwhelming realization, many people have turned to sustainable architecture. Sustainable architecture is defined as “architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space,” (“Sustainable Architecture”). This type of architecture was created as a response to the fact that Earth does not have an unlimited amount of resources, so finding new ways to conserve them will become essential to the prosperity of …show more content…
California is one of the leaders of legislation towards environmental issues. In 2007, the California Green Building Standards Code was introduced. It has continued to be added upon in the successive years, and includes a variety of codes and regulations regarding “green building”. “The mandatory provisions of the CAL Green Code set the minimum standard throughout California” in regards to the “local climatic, geological, topographical or environmental conditions,” (“CAL Green (Part 11 of Title 24)”). These standards have contributed to the mandatory regulation of energy, material, and water consumption of buildings in California. Now that it has become law to conserve resources in buildings by including the developments of sustainable architecture, more people will be willing to contribute to lessening their consumption of resources. In addition, the 2005 Energy Policy Act has given architects a tax deduction for building energy efficient public architecture. This will give architects an incentive to start moving into sustainable architecture, therefore increasing the amount of sustainable methods that are exposed to the general public. The government has played an essential role in the promotion of sustainable architecture by enforcing the regulation of the consumption of resources by