Committee on the Environment (COTE)

2008 Chair: Jean Zagrodnik, AIA LEED AP

The COTE meetings occur on the 3rd Friday of every month at ZTA, 3956 30th Street, from 12:30-2:00pm.  Please check with individual subcommittees for their meeting times.

2008 COTE Volunteers needed:

Advocacy awhitelaw@plattwhitelaw.com  How can we influence and direct legislation and policy to remove barriers and promote sustainability?

Networking  sgramley@plattwhitelaw.com  How can we reach out to other groups and organizations?

Education  rthiele@cox.net and chuckbrands@gmail.com  How can we best serve our members in moving toward designing sustainable buildings?  What does the profession want and need?

San Diego Green 08 (co-sponsored with USGBC) Chair: Kotaro Nakamura, RNT Architects ... in need of subcommittee help.

2008 Co-chair needed (someone who would like to chair in 2009)

Concerns over the ability of our environment to sustain ours and future generations grow with every passing day.  As principle designers of our built environment, architects - and their allies in the building community-have a unique and historic opportunity to address these challenges.     

To that end, the AIA San Diego Committee on the Environment's (COTE) mission is to lead and coordinate the profession's involvement in environmental and energy-related issues and to promote the role of the architect as a leader in preserving and protecting the planet and its living systems.

Please join us in advancing the cause of environmental sustainability as we work to advocate, educate, and network with the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public, to foster design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment.