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    GREEN OR GREENWASHED?

    What would you call a green building standard that, on balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform more than help?

    In March 2009, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television show featured the first house in the country to win certification under the new green building standard from the National Association of Home Builders.

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    FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABLY

    In the new fifth edition of Fundamentals of Building Construction, Allen and Iano set a new benchmark by incorporating sustainability issues into a mainstream construction textbook, section by section, as in this concise overview from the first chapter. We also look forward to a future edition of their outstanding book in which appropriate sustainability considerations have penetrated every topic and page. — the Editors

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    REAL LIFE REGREENING

    What of the middle scale — the ten- to 40-acre (four- to 16-hectare) shopping centers with two or more anchors? What kind of impacts and communities can retrofits build at this scale?

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    Green or Greenwashed? — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422

    City Plans to Make Older Buildings Refit to Save Energy — New York Times, 2009.0422

    Sustainable Developer Awarded First LEED Building for Augusta — Creative Coast, 2009.0421

    Climate Change Drying Up Big Rivers, Study Finds — Reuters, 2009.0421

    Modular Homes with Green Building and Custom Design Options — Off Plan Property Exchange, 2009.0421

    EU Closes Climate Loophole for Car Air Conditioners — Reuters, 2009.0420

    Exxon Bumps Wal-Mart to Claim Top of Fortune 500 List — Reuters, 2009.0420

    New Solar Farm Adds Hot Water to Cheap Electricity — Reuters, 2009.0420

    EGU: Mountain High, Climate Change — Climate Feedback (blog), 2009.0420

    House GOP Leader Boehner Denies Dangers of Carbon Dioxide — Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0420

    Britain to Boost "Green" Spending — Reuters, 2009.0419

    Stay Slim to Save the Planet — Reuters, 2009.0419

    New York Times and Washington Post Confuse Public with Coverage of EPA Endangerment Finding — Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0418

    U.S. Court Strikes Down Bush Oil Leasing Plan — Reuters, 2009.0417

    E.P.A. To Clear the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases — New York Times, 2009.0417

    Obama Unveils High-Speed Rail Plan — New York Times, 2009.0417

    Looking Beyond the E.P.A.’S Seal of Approval — New York Times, 2009.0416

    Riding the It Factor — New York Times, 2009.0416

    When Nature Calls — New York Times, 2009.0416

    Examining Sustainability in the Built Environment — Contract Magazine, 2009.0415

    Can We Neutralize the "Sick" Building Syndrome? — GR Reporter, 2009.0415

    Function over Form? — Monther Nature Network, 2009.0415

    Cannabis Houses Have Lower Carbon Footprint — EcoWorldly, 2009.0414

    Water Worries Cloud Future for U.S. Biofuel — Reuters, 2009.0414

    World Will Not Meet 2C Warming Target, Climate Change Experts Agree — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0414

    Steep Emissions Cuts Take a Chunk of Warming with Them - Study — Daily Climate, 2009.0414

    Study: Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Could Lessen Warming — New York Times, 2009.0414

    LA Passes Ordinance for Green Building Retrofits — Sustainable Business, 2009.0414

    In Gritty Mexico City, a Design Boom — New York Times, 2009.0414

    Startups Following Serious Materials into Green Walls — Green Tech Media, 2009.0409

    NYC Opens 1st Building-Mounted Wind Turbines at Brooklyn Yard — Bloomberg, 2009.0409

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