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    DOCKSIDE GREEN: PHASE TWO

    The second phase of the Dockside Green project in Victoria, British Columbia, recently received a high-scoring LEED Platinum certification from the Canada Green Building Council. Known as Balance, this part of the development comprises 171 residential units in two adjacent towers. It earned a LEED score of 63 points out of a possible 70, matching the score of Dockside Green's first phase, Synergy (featured in ArchitectureWeek No. 401).

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    MAYA LIN - UNCHOP A TREE

    As we wait and listen around the world to hear what new increment of our collective fate will emerge from the final days of the Copenhagen climate conference, this new video piece by Maya Lin, itself an increment of her "What is Missing?" environmental memorial project, speaks deeply on the disaster of ongoing deforestation.

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    Container House in Mojave Desert — Jetson Green, 2011.0414

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    Migratory Birds Run Afoul of Green Buildings — Chicago Tribune, 2011.0413

    Ellis House Earns LEED Platinum — Jetson Green, 2011.0413

    OSU Energy Center Is LEED Platinum Certified — PR Newswire, 2011.0412

    USGBC Launches New LEED Standard for Healthcare — Greener Buildings (Blog), 2011.0412

    Native Americans Join Fight for an Oklahoma Lake's Flow — New York Times, 2011.0412

    Keeping Score on Nuclear Accidents — New York Times, 2011.0412

    Radiation Release Will Hit Marine Life — Nature, 2011.0412

    Japan Faces Power Struggle — Nature, 2011.0412

    Radiation Levels in Parts of Fukushima over Limit — NHK World, 2011.0412

    Oregon Proposes Per Mile EV Tax — Triple Pundit (blog), 2011.0411

    Fewer Penguins Survive Warming Antarctic Climate — Reuters, 2011.0411

    Greener on the West Side: Grand Rapids Leads — Crain's Detroit Business, 2011.0410

    Dead Dolphins, Turtles Still Washing Ashore Along Gulf Coast — St. Petersburg Times, 2011.0408

    Senate Rejects Measure to Stop EPA on Climate — Reuters, 2011.0407

    2011 Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar — ENN, 2011.0407

    A Fresh Take on Sea-Level Rise — New York Times, 2011.0407

    Michigan State Researchers Design New Car Engine — Discovery News, 2011.0406

    Little Action Apparent Six Months after Hungary Red Mud Disaster — World Wildlife Fund, 2011.0406

    Iowa City's New Green Recycling Center — Green Building Elements, 2011.0405

    To Cut Smog, Navistar Blazes Risky Path of Its Own — New York Times, 2011.0405

    White House Promises Veto of Anti-E.P.A. Bill — New York Times, 2011.0405

    Republicans Open Inquiry on Yucca Mountain Shutdown — New York Times, 2011.0405

    A Long Shadow over Fukushima — Nature, 2011.0405

    We Don't Know Enough about Low-Dose Radiation Risk — Nature, 2011.0405

    Japan Faces More Than a Decade of Nuclear Clean-Up — Nature, 2011.0405

    Fukushima Health Risks Scrutinized — Nature, 2011.0405

    The Better Way to Know If a Building Is Green — The Atlantic, 2011.0401

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