Green Wednesday 2007.0221

Wed Feb 21 13:25:07 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.

Some fixes, like much in the way of energy conservation, really are 
simple.  Others are just sold that way:

	A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and
	spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires,
	strewn across the ocean floor ― a white-walled,
	steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry.

	The tires were unloaded there in 1972 to create an
	artificial reef that could attract a rich variety of
	marine life, and to free up space in clogged landfills.
	But decades later, the idea has proved a huge ecological
	blunder.

	Little sea life has formed on the tires. Some of the
	tires that were bundled together with nylon and steel
	have broken loose and are scouring the ocean floor across
	a swath the size of 31 football fields. Tires are washing
	up on beaches. Thousands have wedged up against a nearby
	natural reef, blocking coral growth and devastating
	marine life.

Tire Reef Off Florida Proves a Disaster - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0216
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/16/national/a105037S29.DTL

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Australia to Ban Old-Style Light Bulbs - New York Times, 2007.0220
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Ban-the-Bulb.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Global Warming Scientist Is Encouraged - Sci-Tech Today, 2007.0220
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Global-Warming-Scientist-Encouraged/story.xhtml?story_id=110006617IQG

Sustainable Development in the Gulf Region - The Media Line, 2007.0218
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=16776

Environmentalists Protest Plans for Rare Peat Bog in Poland - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0218
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/18/europe/EU-GEN-Poland-Wetlands.php

New Towers Paint the Town Green - Toronto Star, 2007.0218
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/182962

Court: Logging Permit Violates Owl Protection - WorldLink, 2007.0217
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2007/02/17/news/news13021707.txt

Is This the City of the Future? - Hamilton Spectator, 2007.0217
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1171666212312&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062620

Weyerhaeuser to Shed Building Materials Wholesalers - Register-Guard, 2007.0217
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/02/17/d5.bz.weyerhaeuser.0217.p1.php?section=business

It's Green Simply Because We Say It's Green! - Opinion at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0217
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/greenbuilding/archives/111761.asp

Warming Up to Newsprint - Missoulan, 2007.0217
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/02/17/news/local/news02.txt

Vancouver City Planners Seeing Green - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0217
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070217.BCGREEN17/TPStory/Environment

Canada Gov't Relents, Says Will Obey Pro-Kyoto Law - National Post, 2007.0216
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=75e81c4c-208e-4d32-a967-2ad85ef3527a&k=14224

Green Monster? BAR Vote Highlights Doubts over 201 Avon - The Hook, 2007.0215
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2007/02/15/ONARCH0607-B.rtf.aspx

San Diego Community a Model for Green Building - San Diego Daily Transcript, 2007.0215
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20070215crj

Dying for a Home: Toxic Trailers Make Katrina Refugees Ill - Alternet, 2007.0215
http://www.alternet.org/story/48004/

January Weather Hottest by Far - Newsday, 2007.0215
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-hot-january,0,3669220.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Remodeling Naturally - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0214
http://www.archweek.com/2007/0214/environment_1-1.html

With New Port, China Aims for Cleaner Development - Reuters, 2007.0214
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK69039.htm

Challenging Urbanism - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0214
http://www.archweek.com/2007/0214/news_1-1.html

Green Buildings Need More Incentives in U.S. - Reuters, 2007.0213
http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN2328357720070213

Transforming Los Angeles into a Sustainable City - World Changing (blog), 2007.0212
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006049.html

Leading Nations Sign Climate Deal - Nature, 2007.0212
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-14.html

Product News - 	GridPoint Connect(TM) intelligent energy management hub
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - 
     Huge Foster development in Sahl Hasheesh, Egypt, on the Red Sea
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	Aluminum does not "rust" ― true or false?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/quiz.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Casement windows in fieldstone wall (WI-033)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Erickson's Urban Waterfall, by Guy Babineau 
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0220/design_1-1.html

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