Getting Out of the Rut: Breaking Free of “How We’ve Always Done It” to Decarbonize

Recognize the organizational and professional pressures that push project teams toward business-as-usual outcomes and against decarbonization.

Identify specific, default behaviors that are present in projects.

Describe real examples of teams catching or failing to catch these assumptions and default behaviors, and what tipped the outcome one way or the other.

Explain how the USGBC Strategic Decarbonization Planning Guide and Workbook provide a structured process to chart a new path and help teams avoid falling back into old patterns.