Green Wednesday 2007.0110

Wed Jan 10 14:09:10 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.

Location matters.  (Yeah... it all does!)

	'Jonathan F.P. Rose, a third generation developer who
	founded the Jonathan Rose Companies in 1989 to link for-
	profit development with a socially conscious mission, began
	the Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund a year ago. The $100
	million limited partnership is one of the few -- if not the
	only -- environmentally oriented investment fund that focuses
	exclusively on the acquisition of existing properties in
	transit-oriented locations. The expectation is that the fund
	will make green improvements to the properties and hold them
	as long-term investments.

	'"Over the life of a building, more energy is consumed
	traveling to and from a building than is used by the
	building itself," Rose said. "So location in urban areas
	with good mass transit is critical to reducing environmental
	impact. And when you pick transit-based urban sites, supply
	is already constrained. So the strategy is to hit a sweet
	spot of holistic development and economic return." ...'

'Green' Developers Look to Renovations - International Herald Tribune
 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/09/business/Rose.php

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Green Light for Architecture - The Press, 2007.0109
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/business/news/display.var.1110426.0.green_light_for_architecture.php

Kevin's Ark: How to Build an Eco-House - Mail & Guardian, 2007.0109
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=295220&area=/insight/insight__national/

Long-Term Global Forecast? Fewer Continents - New York Times, 2007.0109
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09geo.html?ref=science

Building from the Ground Up - USA Today, 2007.0109
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-08-natural-homes-usat_x.htm

Cook Inlet Belugas Face Extinction Risk - New York Times, 2007.0108
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Beluga-Whales.html

EPA Rejects Proposed Lumber Treatment - New York Times, 2007.0108
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Wood-Preservative.html

Prefabs Make Way for Affordable Green Homes - New Builder, 2007.0108
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1767

Gwinnett County Educational Center - Dexigner, 2007.0107
http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8861

Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future - New York Times, 2007.0107
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/world/europe/07cars.html?ref=science&pagewanted=all

How to Save the Planet by Borrowing - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0107
http://money.guardian.co.uk/ethicalmoney/story/0,,1984201,00.html

Sustainable Living: Resolutions with a Green Focus - Times Herald-Record, 2007.0107
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070107/NEWS/701070341/-1/NEWS

A Green Spec on the Planet - Denver Post, 2007.0106
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4960975

The Green and Pleasant Land Of... Los Angeles? - Business Week, 2007.0105
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070105_372790.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_top+stories

Straw Building Earns LEED Gold - Interior Design, 2007.0105
http://www.interiordesign.net/id_newsarticle/CA6404395.html

Impact of Transportation Costs on Location Decisions - Revitalization Online, 2007.0104
http://www.revitalizationonline.com/article.asp?id=1513

Growing Greener Prefab - World Changing (blog), 2007.0104
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005743.html

Sustainability Grand Rapid's Competitive Advantage - Revitalization Online, 2007.0104
http://www.revitalizationonline.com/article.asp?id=1511

Cultural Initiative - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0103
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0103/environment_1-1.html

He's Still Following the Sun - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0103
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solardude3jan03,0,2968746.story?coll=la-home-local

Buildings That Breathe - E Magazine, 2007.0103
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3525

The Future of Solar Power Lies in the Northeast - RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 2006.1227
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/reinsider/story?id=46946

Gore Plans to Initiate Grass-Roots 'Carbon Freeze' Movement - Boston Globe, 2006.1210
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/12/10/gore_plans_to_initiate_a_grass_roots_carbon_freeze_movement/

Classic Home 70 - Kaufmann Desert House, by Richard Neutra
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/classic_home.html

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