Green Wednesday 2006.1018

Wed Oct 18 15:14:48 PDT 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.

With mega-yachts and mega-Dubai, this week we're leading off the
green news with a bit of (harsh? shocking, I hope!) contrast.

Farther down the list, the 'Featherless Chickens and Reptilian Brain'
piece should be a feel-good read for the green designer - but you 
do have to read it through almost to the bottom!

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Rise of Mega-Yachts, Complete with Heliport - ManilaTimes, 2006.1019
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/oct/19/yehey/opinion/20061019opi7.html

Balancing Nature and Development - Sun2Surf (Malaysia), 2006.1018
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=9632

Fear and Money in Dubai - Opinion at New Left Review, 2006.1017
http://www.newleftreview.net/?page=article&view=2635

Resizing the Dream: Big Ideas about Small Houses - The Hook, 2006.1017
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/10/12/ONARCH%200541-A.doc.aspx

Iceland Begins Commercial Whaling - BBC News, 2006.1017
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6059564.stm

Breathing Easy - Kitchen & Bath Design, 2006.1017
http://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=2&id=3444

World Urgently Needs Post-Kyoto Climate Deal-U.N. - Reuters India, 2006.1017
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-17T202704Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-272638-1.xml

Calif., US Northeast To Unite on Forming CO2 Market - Reuters UK, 2006.1017
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N16383832&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-5

Ivory Coast Tragedy Highlights Hazardous Waste Trade on Rise - AP at Boston Herald, 2006.1017
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=162794

How Green Will the UKGBC Really Be? - NewBuilder, 2006.1017
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1640

Feinstein on Global Warming - YubaNet, 2006.1017
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_43963.shtml

Solar Hot Spot: Inventors, Investors Drawn to Silicon Valley - SiliconValley.com, 2006.1016
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15770605.htm

Historic Mill Is Cutting Edge - Boston Globe, 2006.1016
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/10/16/historic_mill_is_cutting_edge/

Let's Learn Swedish - Opinion at The Times (London), 2006.1015
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14049-2399894,00.html

Keeping It 'Green' with Panels and More - New York Times, 2006.1015
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/realestate/15nati.html?em&ex=1161057600&en=af5ae4df6882f852&ei=5087%0A

Reducing Construction Waste through Green Design - INQ7 (Phillipines), 2006.1014
http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=26605

Climate Change Inaction Will Cost Trillions - Reuters at Yahoo, 2006.1013
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/sc_nm/environment_climate_dc

LEED-India Ratings System Launched - ISRO Press Release, 2006.1013
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/construction-building/20061013782.htm

China: Energy Conservation Begins at Home - Asia Times, 2006.1013
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HJ13Cb01.html

Featherless Chickens and the Reptilian Brain - Opinion at Chicago Reader, 2006.1013
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/art/061013/

A Sustainable Rider? - Rider News (Rider University), 2006.1013
http://comm.rider.edu/ridernews/html/sections/2006_2007/04_10_13_06/news/01_newsstory.html

Home Wind Turbines Turn Fashionable in Britain - ENN, 2006.1012
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11435

'Hood Intentions - Grist, 2006.1012
http://grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/12/shaw/

Debunking the Green Building Myth - Opinion at AlterNet, 2006.1011
http://www.alternet.org/story/42827/

City, UC Step Up with 'Green' Building - Cincinnati Enquirer, 2006.1011
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061011/EDIT02/610110326/1090/EDIT

Global Warming Seen Pushing Up Insurance Costs - Reuters US at AlterNet, 2006.1011
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09298872.htm

It's Convergence Time - EVWorld, 2006.1010
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=1110

Cool Roofing: Coatings Keep Things Cool - EDC, 2006.1000
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/0da89bab4815e010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____

Frei Otto Praemium Imperiale - ArchitectureWeek, 2006.1011
http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1011/index.html

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