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    SUSTAINABLE SITE SELECTION FOR SCHOOLS

    In the case of a new school, the first job for the working group is selecting a site. All the decisions that go into making a sustainable campus or building follow. Location defines the impacts of development both to the site itself and to surrounding neighborhoods, transportation, habitat, and hydrology.

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    WHAT GOES INTO GREEN?

    The American Institute of Architects has announced its top ten green projects for 2010. Sponsored by AIA's Committee on the Environment, and published in ArchitectureWeek No. 472, the award winners are each worthy of citation for excellence in internal design, in most cases reducing their environmental impacts significantly below those of similarly located but conventional buildings while also serving as teaching exemplars. So far, so good.

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    POSTCARD FROM FRANKFURT

    Dear ArchitectureWeek,

    The Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency isn't just for houses. This we learned in Germany recently, on a fascinating tour of green building and design there, organized by the Ecologic Institute environmental think tank with funding from the German government.

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    More Environment

    BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling Some Call Risky — New York Times, 2010.0624

    Thatcher Becomes Latest Recruit in Monckton's Climate Sceptic Campaign — Guardian Unlimited, 2010.0622

    Obama to Push Climate Change on Back of BP Spill — Financial Times, 2010.0622

    Kingston, Ontario Investing Heavily in Green Building — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2010.0622

    EU Sees Solar Power Imported from Sahara in Five Years — EurActiv, 2010.0622

    Court Blocks Obama Ban on Deepwater Drilling — Reuters, 2010.0622

    Faster Claims Payment Needed, Feinberg Says — New York Times, 2010.0622

    Judge Who Ruled Against Offshore Drilling Moratorium Invests in Oil Industry — Climate Progress (blog), 2010.0622

    Q-and-A: Woody Biomass, Pros and Cons — New York Times, 2010.0622

    Washington Builders Sue to Slow Green Building — Green Landlady, 2010.0622

    China’S Clean Energy Push — Climate Progress (blog), 2010.0622

    5 Reasons Why GRI Is the New LEED — Triple Pundit, 2010.0622

    Study Affirms Consensus on Climate Change — New York Times, 2010.0622

    Europe Considers New Taxes to Boost 'Clean' Energy — New York Times, 2010.0622

    Photovoltaics in Architecture — Glass On Web, 2010.0621

    The Era of the Oil Gusher — New York Times, 2010.0621

    A $100 Million Pool for Solar Financing — New York Times, 2010.0621

    Can the River Save the Deltas? — New York Times, 2010.0621

    Sub Makes Unexpected Find under Floating Ice Shelf — NPR, 2010.0621

    Is a ‘Utility-Only’ Cap-and-Trade Bill Worth Passing? — Grist, 2010.0621

    Suburbia Revised: Developers Try Turning Malls into Main Streets — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0621

    Why Carbon Pricing Matters — The Atlantic, 2010.0618

    Net Benefits of Biomass Power under Scrutiny — New York Times, 2010.0618

    Columbia College Building Receives First LEED Silver Certification in Columbia — Columbia Missourian, 2010.0617

    Bellevue Towers Achieves LEED Gold — Bellevue Reporter, 2010.0617

    Antarctic Sea Ice Paradoxically Growing — Live Science, 2010.0617

    Breaking the Cost Barrier on Algae-Based Biofuels — Triple Pundit (blog), 2010.0617

    Spill May Have Taken Its Largest Victim Yet — New York Times, 2010.0617

    Frank Hall at Appalachian University Receives LEED Gold Certification — Appalachian State University News, 2010.0617

    Green-Roofed Meyers Pediatric Hospital in Florence, Italy — Inhabitat (blog), 2010.0616

    Canadian Contractors Warned about LEED Certification Failure — Journal of Commerce, 2010.0616

    DOE Gives $60 Million to Expand Local Energy Efficiency Efforts — Matter Network, 2010.0616

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