Green Wednesday 2006.1213

Wed Dec 13 15:57:41 PST 2006

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you
weekly news on green design and building from around the world.

	PREFAB PLATINUM
	"On a cloudy day in April 2006, a crowd of curious onlookers
	gathered on a hillside street in Santa Monica, California,
	to watch the installation of the first LivingHomes
	prefabricated house. Over the course of eight hours, 11
	modules were hoisted by crane onto a concrete slab in a
	dramatic departure from traditional residential
	construction.

	"Four months after construction, the model house received the
	first-ever LEED-Platinum rating for residential design. For
	developer Steve Glenn, founder and CEO of LivingHomes, it
	was an affirmation of his goal to develop houses of
	exceptional modern design, functionality, and
	sustainability. To ensure design quality, he had enlisted
	architect and Southern California Institute of Architecture
	(SCI-ARC) co-founder, Ray Kappe, FAIA. ..."
	by Allison Milionis in ArchitectureWeek No. 314
	http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1206/index.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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E.P.A. Revises Its Formula to Calculate Auto Mileage - New York Times, 2006.1212
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/12mileage.html?ref=business

The Flat Panel House Now a Reality - SmartHouse, 2006.1212
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Smart_Ideas/Design?Article=/Smart%20Ideas/Design/W5S8K8Q7

Butterfly Wings Are Templates for Photonic Structures - PhysOrg, 2006.1211
http://www.physorg.com/news85033468.html

"Greenest" U.S. City Faces Same Problems as Others - Reuters, 2006.1211
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=inDepthNews&storyID=2006-12-11T060453Z_01_N09438202_RTRUKOC_0_US-CITIES-EUGENE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-inDepthNews-2

Cradle to Cradle Design - Pure Contemporary, 2006.1211
http://purecontemporary.blogs.com/behind_the_curtains/2006/12/cradle_to_cradl.html

Green Revolution Sweeping U.S. Construction Industry - Sun-Herald, 2006.1211
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/16216509.htm

Democrats May Give Alternative Energy a New Push - New York Times, 2006.1210
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/business/yourmoney/10energy.html?_r=1&ref=yourmoney&oref=slogin

Growing 'Greener' Buildings - Hartford Courant, 2006.1210
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-greenbuilding.artdec10,0,4030364.story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials

City Contemplates Green Roof Requirement - Tri-City News, 2006.1210
http://www.tricitynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=74&cat=23&id=789611&more=

Zero Carbon Home Is Little More Than Hot Air - Telegraph, 2006.1208
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/08/nbedzed08.xml

The Future of Nanotechnology in the Forest Products Industry - APA, 2006.1208
http://www.apawood.org/level_b.cfm?content=pub_ewj_f06_small

Amazon Dam Project Draws Heated Opposition in Brazil - Reuters Canada, 2006.1207
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-12-07T204311Z_01_N07448760_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-BRAZIL-DAM-COL.XML&archived=False

Team Awarded for Better Bulb Discovery - USA Today, 2006.1207
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-12-07-better-bulbs_x.htm

EPA to Begin Final World Trade Center Air and Dust Testing - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2006.1207
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20061207-0500-attacks-health.html

The World Needs an Environment Nobel Award - IOL, 2006.1207
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=143&art_id=qw1165497842736B251

Casaclima-Klimahaus - World Changing, 2006.1207
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005506.html

Prefab Platinum - ArchitectureWeek, 2006.1206
http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1206/environment_1-1.html

Weeds Get a Makeover in Marin - San Jose Mercury News, 2006.1206
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/food/16175141.htm

Ahead of the Wind - Ithaca Times, 2006.1206
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17555128&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6

The Path to Platinum - Metropolis, 2006.1206
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2411

On a Greener Future - San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.1206
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/12/06/EDGOULJ57C1.DTL

People and Places - 
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1206/people_and_places.html

Product News - Ultra-Flat LED Lighting from Eyeleds(R)
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1206/products_update.html

Classic Home 69 - Azuma House, by Tadao Ando
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1206/classic_home.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Nested shutters on window in painted stucco wall (WI-0001)
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Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Historic Warehouse Grows Green, by ArchitectureWeek
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/1205/environment_1-1.html

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