Green Wednesday 2007.0131

Wed Jan 31 16:28:04 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.

The biggest event this week related to green building will come on
Friday, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
releases a keenly-awaited major update to its powerful report.  As
we close in on the release, with final editing underway behind
closed doors, rumors abound - along with a rich harvest of other news!

	"Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a
	dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea
	levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the
	sugarcoated version.

	"Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative
	report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises
	than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top
	U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers. Those
	calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic,
	melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations:

	"They 'don't take into account the gorillas -- Greenland
	and Antarctica,' said Ohio State University earth sciences
	professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. 'I think
	there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st
	century.'"

New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say - New York Times, 2007.0129
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Climate-Report.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Public School Teaches and Inspires - EDC, 2007.0200
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Cover_Story/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000029183

Sustaining Curiosity - EDC, 2007.0200
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000029684

California May Ban Conventional Lightbulbs by 2012 - Yahoo News, 2007.0130
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/sc_nm/energy_california_lightbulbs_dc_2

China Pushes for Energy-Efficient Buildings - Green Biz, 2007.0130
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34517

In the Rockies, Pines Die - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/science/30bear.html?ref=science

Panel Hears Climate 'Spin' Allegations - Boston Globe, 2007.0130
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/30/panel_hears_climate_spin_allegations/

Home Builders Win Battle to Use Plastic Water Pipes - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0130
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16578399.htm

Australians to Turn to Recycled Water - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/asia/30australia.html?ref=asia

U.N. Chief Urged to Call Climate Summit - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Change-Summit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Adobe Snares a Hat Trick - Law.com, 2007.0130
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1170077830393

Climate Report Says Millions to Go Hungry, Waterless - Alaska Report, 2007.0129
http://www.alaskareport.com/reu77621.htm

Rising Sea Levels Doom Beaches, Geologist Warns - Honolulu Star Bulletin, 2007.0129
http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/29/news/story01.html

Allotments to Be Bulldozed to Make Way for 'Green' Olympics - New Builder, 2007.0129
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1795

Fighting the Urban Sprawl - BusinessWeek, 2007.0129
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070119_645420.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_top+stories

'Out of the Realm of Novelty': Green Circle Shopping Center - Springfield Business Journal, 2007.0129
http://www.sbj.net/weekly_article.asp?aID=24179978.2977454.991042.8940374.5860575.504&aID2=76225

Sky Gardens Spur Building Boom - New York Daily News, 2007.0128
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/492809p-415101c.html

Rent Your Own Solar Panels - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0125
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/greenbuilding/archives/110836.asp

Recycled Excuses - The Pitch (Kansas City), 2007.0125
http://www.pitch.com/Issues/2007-01-25/news/news.html

Historic Preservation and Green Building: Lasting Relationship - BuildingGreen.com, 2007.0125
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160101a.xml

Report Guides Carbon Offset Customers - BuildingGreen.com, 2007.0125
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160103a.xml

Climate Advocates 'Underwhelmed' by President's Vision. - Nature, 2007.0124
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/070122-6.html

Product News - Encycle(tm) modular carpet backing from Mohawk
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0124/products_update.html

People and Places -
     Kate Diamond, FAIA, brings more LEED experience to NBBJ Seattle
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/people_and_places.html

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This Week'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/2007/0124/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	About how much does one yard (27 cubic feet, or 0.76
	cubic meters) of loose rock weigh? About how much does
	one yard of the same type of rock weigh when compacted?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Array of round windows (WI-060)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Austrian Sky Garden, by W-M.O. Tschuppik 
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0130/environment_1-1.html

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