| NEWS | DESIGN | BUILDING | DESIGN TOOLS | ENVIRONMENT | CULTURE | PRODUCTS |
| ENVIRONMENT | ||
|
|
Climate Letter to Congress | |
|
|
Postcard from Passive House Portland | |
|
ENVIRONMENT THIS WEEK |
|
|
We think this public letter, signed by 18 prominent climate scientists, coordinated by the Project on Climate Science, gives a succinct and accurate view of the current situation, addressed to our national legislators. Meanwhile, the "Better Buildings Initiative" announced by the White House on February 3, 2011, is an important climate- and architecture-related package moving forward administratively, even as Congress fiddles. To the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate:
|
|
POSTCARD FROM PASSIVE HOUSE PORTLAND Dear ArchitectureWeek, There were 345 attendees (including me) at the North American Passive House Conference in Portland, Oregon, held from November 4 to 7, 2010. Twenty-six sessions focused on all aspects of the Passive House building energy-efficiency certification system, ranging from detailed conceptual overviews led by Passivhaus cofounder Dr. Wolfgang Feist to technical sessions about specific aspects of certification in our region.
|
|
More Environment A Harder Rain's Gonna Fall (and Already Is) — New York Times, 2011.0217Can Homes Be Built Carbon Free? — Green Building Elements, 2011.0216 Okanagan College Selected for Sustainable Study — Journal of Commerce, 2011.0216 Employing Ecosystems as Infrastructure for Green Building — Green Building Pro, 2011.0216 Net Zero Energy, Transmuted into Art — New York Times, 2011.0215 Net Zero Energy, Transmuted into Art — New York Times, 2011.0215 Budget Spares Energy Research, Despite Hits to Other Programs — New York Times, 2011.0215 UK's Largest Level 6 Development Gets the Go-Ahead — Green Building Press, 2011.0214 Energy, Enviro Spending at Heart of Looming Budget Fight — New York Times, 2011.0214 Obama, Chu Try to Slash the Multi-Miracle Hydrogen Program Once Again — Climate Progress (blog), 2011.0214 U.S. Republicans Propose Sweeping Cuts to Climate Change Programs — Nasdaq, 2011.0214 British Businesses Told: Adapt or Face the Consequences — Guardian Unlimited, 2011.0214 Arizona Haze and NOx — ENN, 2011.0214 Gulf Suffered a Gas Surge, Study Finds — New York Times, 2011.0214 Department of Interior Kicks Solar Decathalon Off the Mall — , 2011.0213 Richmond Home Takes LEED Platinum — Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2011.0212 Climate Change Keenly Felt in Alaska's National Parks — Reuters, 2011.0212 Who’S Got the Greenest House on the Planet? — Grist, 2011.0211 Spill Commissioners Call for Review of Energy Policy — New York Times, 2011.0211 Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone? — New York Times, 2011.0211 China: Rain, Snow and Artillery Said to Ease Drought — New York Times, 2011.0211 Maintaining a Passive House — Connaught Telegraph, 2011.0211 Prince Charles Criticises Climate Change Denial — BBC News, 2011.0210 Yet Another Route to Cellulosic Ethanol — New York Times, 2011.0210 Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Concerns over Saudi ‘Peak Oil’ — New York Times, 2011.0210 House Republicans Take E.P.A. Chief to Task — New York Times, 2011.0210 USDA Forest Service Unveils Proposed Planning Rule — USDA Press Release, 2011.0210 Watchdog Wants Big Trees Protected — Times Colonist, 2011.0210 How Autodesk Tackles the Next Frontier of IT-for-Green — Greeener Computing, 2011.0209 GSA Unveils Plans for the First Net-Zero-Energy Historic Building — NextGov, 2011.0209 New Raleigh Bus Garage Brings Energy Savings — News Observer, 2011.0209 From Devastation to LEED: A Small Town Story — EarthTechling (Blog), 2011.0209 Earth Warming Unevenly — Science Daily, 2011.0209 Does California Green Building Code Signal Future Code Adoption? — Green Building Law Update (blog), 2011.0208 Amended Complaint Filed in Gifford V. USGBC — Clean Techies, 2011.0208 Batteries That Breathe — Discovery News, 2011.0208 I-Codes and Obama's Better Buildings Initiative — Facility Blog, 2011.0207 Oregon State's New Energy Center Makes a Platinum Statement — Oregonian, 2011.0203 IGCC a "Step in the Right Direction" — Green Building Law Update (blog), 2011.0203 'Affordable Housing Is a Term That Has Been Misused by the Government' — Indian Express, 2011.0201 LEED Roundup: Conagra, ezStorage, Marine Bio Lab, UCSB — Environmental Leader, 2011.0201 Ithaca College's Peggy Ryan Williams Center Wins LEED-Platinum — WIDN, 2011.0201 LEED Automation Means More Efficiency, Fewer Consultants — Green Building Law Update (Blog), 2011.0201
Note: Pages will open in a new browser window Library : more Green Design and Building Environment Department Archive
|
|
Send this to a friend Subscribe Contribute Media Kit Privacy Comments
