Green Wednesday 2007.0207

Wed Feb 7 12:15:50 PST 2007

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.

	"I work in a Gold certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and
	Environmental Design) 'green' building. We at the law school
	are so excited and proud about this that we mention it in
	our promotional brochures, announce it on our web site, give
	tours, and generally position it as a selling point for the
	school. We have non-toxic carpet, recycled materials,
	windows that actually open, waterless urinals, automatic
	lighting that turns off when you leave the room (most of the
	time, anyways), and a 40% savings in energy used for heating
	and cooling. We are comforted that we have done our part in
	saving the planet.

	"But there¹s what we might call an inconvenient truth that
	everyone seems to ignore: the five story parking garage that
	is as large as the law school itself and filled with trucks,
	SUVs and fancy sedans. If we were to take an honest look at
	our collective ecological footprint‹a metaphor to depict the
	amount of land and water a population hypothetically needs
	to support itself and to absorb its wastes‹I am afraid we
	would find that our green building isn¹t making as much of a
	dent as we might think. ..."

Sustainable Zoning: A New Imperative - Editorial at New West, 2007.0131
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/sustainable_zoning_a_new_imperative/C35/L35/

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Refrigerated Buildings Could Save Power for a Rainy Day - Nature, 2007.0207
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070205/full/070205-9.html

On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to Certainty - New York Times, 2007.0206
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/earth/06clim.html?ref=science

Carbon-Free Living: China's Green Leap Forward - Independent Digital, 2007.0206
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2241450.ece

City Unveils 'Green' Building Code to Reduce Climate Change - Scotsman Online, 2007.0206
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=195392007

Companies Find the Profit in Being Green - NJ Biz, 2007.0205
http://www.njbiz.com/weekly_article_reg.asp?aID=6371048.8541223.907296.4783245.5729421.824&aID2=69783

Environmentalists Demand Curbs on Mercury Trade - Reuters, 2007.0205
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-02-05T140107Z_01_L05904722_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-UN-MERCURY.xml&WTmodLoc=SciNewsHome_C2_scienceNews-3

Parks Canada Building Certified Most Environmentally Friendly - Victoria Times Colonist, 2007.0204
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=160281ae-3eb3-49bf-8466-89f66df63270&k=80986

U of I's Solar House Unites Multiple Disciplines - Exduco, 2007.0204
http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=883

Richard Heinberg: Five Axioms of Sustainability - Global Public Media, 2007.0204
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/851

The Greenest Building - World Changing (blog), 2007.0203
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005999.html

Solar Visionary's Dreams Become Reality - Press-Enterprise (Riverside), 2007.0203
http://www.pe.com/business/local/stories/PE_Biz_D_solarpower04.428114a.html

Energy-Efficient Direct-Current Powering Technology - Environmental Energy Technologies Division News, 2007.0202
http://eetd.lbl.gov/newsletter/nl24/1directCurrent.html

Delivering on the Promise of Green Building - Healthy Building News, 2007.0202
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/070202unityhomes.html

Greens Say Russia 2014 Winter Bid Threatens Ecology - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0202
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6389252,00.html

Building Potential - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0131
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0131/environment_1-1.html

How Office Air Conditioning Lost Its Cool - Financial Times Deutschland, 2007.0130
http://www.ftd.de/karriere_management/business_english/156242.html

Indonesia Bans Sand Exports - Channel News Asia, 2007.0124
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/254450/1/.html

Product News - SLS(R) Fast, Durable Scale Models by AdvaTech
	 http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0131/products_update.html

People and Places -
	 Kimball Office seeks LEED-CI certification for New York showroom
	 http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0131/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	The following projects were completed two years apart during
	the same decade; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC;
	AT&T Building, New York; Thorncrown Chapel; and the Los
	Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Who is the designer of
	each, and which in decade were they built? If determining
	the decade is too easy, try ordering them from oldest to
	newest.
	 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0131/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Protective coatings consist of pigments, binders, and
	solvents. Paints are typically classified according to their
	vehicles or binders. What are the two main types of paint?
	 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0131/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
	Twelve-over-twelve Double-hung Window (WI-045)
	http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0131/contents.html

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