This month, Edward Mazria and his crusade to “greenify” the built environment got a major boost: the 70-year-old architect was named one of five winners of the Purpose Prize. The $100,000 award is given by Civic Ventures, a baby-boomer-focused think-tank in San Francisco that aims to promote innovative, socially responsible work among people of retirement age. Mazria received the accolade for his decades spent furthering ecologically attuned building practices, including founding the nonprofit organization Architecture 2030, into which he plans to invest his prize money.
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