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Last week in Tackling Climate Change we took a reality check on the level of challenge embodied in established targets for reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. This week, we're announcing a new call to action for architecture firms across the United States and around the world.
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Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to get in. Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate change, anchoring the powerful presentation with this silver spur to action for design professionals:
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With ever-rising energy prices, commercial tenants in office buildings have begun to consider the increasing cost of heating, cooling, and lighting their spaces as a "second rent." Savvy developers and architects are responding to their concern by making new buildings far more energy efficient than in the recent past.
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More Environment A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply) — New York Times, 2008.0508Oil Giants to Settle Water Suit — New York Times, 2008.0508 Senate Democrats Criticize EPA for Impeding Science — McClatchy, 2008.0507 U.S. Consumers Rank Last in World Survey of Green Habits — McClatchy, 2008.0507 AFP Canada Rapped over Kyoto Registry — Yahoo News, 2008.0507 Bringing Wind Power to Off-Grid Guatemalan Villages — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0507 Warming May Be Greatest Threat to Tropical Species — New York Times, 2008.0506 Bloomfield Hills Home Builder Pulte Gets National 'Green' Honor — Oakland Business Review, 2008.0506 Reuters Myanmar Believes 13,000 Dead, Missing from Cyclone — Yahoo News, 2008.0505 UN Breaks Ground for Headquarters Overhaul, Greening — Earth Times, 2008.0505 Pre-Fab Homes — Sustainable Industries, 2008.0505 The Greening of Greensburg — BusinessWeek, 2008.0505 Green Architecture Versus Great Architecture — Green Building Elements, 2008.0505 Japan, China to Join in S$409.2m CO2 Project — AsiaOne, 2008.0503 Energy Conservation Hits the Roof — Daily Herald, 2008.0503 Green Vs. Greenbacks in Homes — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0502 We’Ll Live in Polystyrene Homes Soon, Says Group — NE Business, 2008.0502 A Green Utopia Grows in the Arizona Desert — Salt Lake Tribune, 2008.0502 Climate Troubles Brewing for Beer Makers — Nature, 2008.0502 Charcoal's Green Image Blackened — Nature, 2008.0501 'Ocean Deserts' Are Growing — Nature, 2008.0501 EU Seeks Green Label for Wood Furniture — International Herald Tribune, 2008.0429 Antarctic Ice Threatened by Ozone-Hole Recovery — Nature, 2008.0429 Harlem’S First Affordable Green Housing — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0429 Urban Planning Needs Green Rethink — BBC News, 2008.0429 Congress Delaying Energy, Housing Aids, Bush Says — NPR, 2008.0429 For Houston Builders, Going 'Green' Won't Be Optional — Houston Chronicle, 2008.0428 Russia Says Has No Plans to Cap Carbon Emissions — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0428 Los Angeles Passes Ambitious Green Building Law — Habitat (blog), 2008.0428
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