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Although the last two decades have seen Vancouver, Canada, grab more attention for its forest of tall, glassy condominium towers, the city's smaller western neighbor, Victoria, is making some waves of its own. The comparatively sleepy British Columbia capital, with a population of just under 80,000, is home to one of the most ambitious sustainable development projects ever undertaken in Canada.
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POSTCARD FROM A TIPPING PLANET Dear ArchitectureWeek, Please take a minute to look at this great short animation from Leo Murray.
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More Environment Britain Says to Cut Emissions 80 Percent by 2050 — Reuters, 2008.1016Tesla Says It Will Lay Off Employees and Delay Its All-Electric Sedan Until 2011 — New York Times, 2008.1016 Dockside Green — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1015 Fernald Preserve Visitors Center Earns LEED Platinum — Business Courier, 2008.1015 Climate Deal to Help Overcome Financial Crisis: EU — Scientific American, 2008.1014 Rising Temperatures May Dry Up Peat Bogs, Causing Carbon Release — New York Times, 2008.1014 GreenPod Offers Full-Circle Home Design — Jetson Green, 2008.1013 Energy-Efficient Home Projects Dot New Orleans — WTOP News, 2008.1013 Denton Corker Marshall Bags RIBA Sustainability Award — Architects' Journal, 2008.1012 Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder — Canoe, 2008.1012 Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder — SiloBreaker, 2008.1012 In Search of 'Personal' Space — Haaretz, 2008.1012 Amazing Indoors — Boston Globe, 2008.1012 Funds, Too, Are Mining New Energy Sources — New York Times, 2008.1012 Alaska Pollock Fishery Near Collapse: Greenpeace — Reuters, 2008.1010 Indian Tribes See Profit in Harnessing the Wind for Power — New York Times, 2008.1010 Why Won't ABC Air That Clean-Energy Ad? — Christian Science Monitor, 2008.1010 Mayne Warns Dubai Set for 'Ecological Disaster' — BD, 2008.1010 Affordable and Still Green: Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.1010 Standing on the Brink — Nature, 2008.1009 Ethiopia Signs Deal for Largest Wind Farm in Africa — AFP, 2008.1009 New California Academy of Sciences Receives LEED Platinum — CAS Press Release, 2008.1009 Farmer in Chief — New York Times, 2008.1009 New York Home Earns LEED Certification — The Building Studio Press Release, 2008.1009 Has Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tipped? — Nature, 2008.1009 Pocket IPCC — Nature, 2008.1009 Prince Charles Attacks Architects for Making Green 'Gestures' — Telegraph, 2008.1008 'Zero Net Energy' Homes: An Experiment in Issaquah — Crosscut, 2008.1008 Flight of the Penguins: Rescuers Return Wayward Birds Home — CNN, 2008.1008 Federal Judge Puts Albuquerque's Green Building Code on Hold — Greener Buildings, 2008.1007 HVAC Research Leads to Revisions in California Title 24 — Facilities Net, 2008.1007 Contractors Rush to Become LEED Experts — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2008.1003 Biden, Palin, CO2 Caps, "Clean Coal" — New York Times, 2008.1003 Regina Building Gets Nod for 'Green' Construction — Regina Leader Post, 2008.1002 "Green Roofs" Flourish in Eco-Conscious Cities — Seattle Times, 2008.1001
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