Green Wednesday 2007.0228

Wed Feb 28 18:35:25 PST 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you
weekly green design and building news from around the world.

How should we react when a co-anchor of ABC News 20/20 expresses 
this quality of thinking, and consideration for scientific truth?

	But, you know, I guess you can't deny that the globe has
	warmed. Climate changes. It's warmed a little. The issue
	is, is it a bad thing? It may be a good thing. And is it
	a catastrophe, where we have to wreck the lives of poor
	people and turn our freedom over to Al Gore and he'll
	tell us what we can drive and whether we can
	air-condition our house? And even if he does that, it's
	not going to make any difference. So there are seven
	issues, and the only one where there's clear truth is
	that, yes, the globe has warmed and probably will keep
	warming. And, most likely, man is playing a part. But to
	then say, "Al Gore is right," what does that mean? ...

John Stossel: Global warming "may be a good thing"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200702260007

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Sustainable Design at U.S. GBC Headquarters - Daily Commercial News, 2007.0227
http://dcnonl.com/article/20070227400

Preservation Amid Progress Is Vital - Stamford Advocate, 2007.0227
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/opinion/editorial/scn-sa-editorialfeb27,0,3594556.story?coll=stam-editorial-headlines

A Welcome Plan for Bold - Not Big - Housing - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0227
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/27/DDGPDOAA2I1.DTL

Big Green Buyout at TXU - Nature, 2007.0227
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070226/full/070226-5.html

Prototype 'Zero Carbon' Home to Become 'Commercial Reality' - 24Dash, 2007.0227
http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/17167.htm

EU Faces New Fights over the Environment - New York Times, 2007.0227
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Poland-Endangered-Habitats.html

Light Fantastic - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0227
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2021834,00.html

TSAC Issues Final Report on PVC - USGBC Press Release, 2007.0226
http://www.usgbc.org/News/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=2957

Scientists Wary of Lake Superior Warming - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0226
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/4583740.html

Look inside UTD's Newest Building - UTD Mercury, 2007.0226
http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2007/02/26/Features/Look-Inside.Utds.Newest.Building-2742406.shtml

Pointing the Way to Green Future - Sacramento Bee, 2007.0225
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/128657.html

Global Warming Worries to Boost Renewables - Washington Post, 2007.0225
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501000.html

Home, Green Home - Hartford Courant, 2007.0225
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-green.artfeb25,0,5501914.story?coll=hc-headlines-life

Conference Spotlights Conservation Strategies - University of Florida News, 2007.0223
http://news.ufl.edu/2007/02/23/green-conference/

James Howard Kunstler: "America, Think Downscale!" - Bellaciao blog, 2007.0222
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=14473

Wal-Mart Renews Green Pledge at S.F. Forum - Examiner, 2007.0222
http://www.examiner.com/a-579017~Wal_Mart_renews_green_pledge_at_S_F__forum.html

Green jitters grow on blue planet - Toronto Sun, 2007.0222
http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/184121

Green Office Building Goes Back to the Future - DJC, 2007.0222
http://www.djc.com/news/en/11186809.html

A Platinum LEED Rating - How We Did It - DJC, 2007.0222
http://www.djc.com/news/en/11186815.html

Essex Street House - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0221
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0221/design_1-1.html

Making Prague a Little Greener - Prague Post, 2007.0221
http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/02/21/making-prague-a-little-greener.php

People and Places This Week - 
     EBC to build greener in Frankfurt am Main
     LEED Gold Science and Technology Facility at NREL in Golden, Colorado
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	The new pedestrian bridge "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir"
	crosses the Seine in Paris. It has a length of 885 feet
	(270 meters) and a main span of 620 feet (190 meters),
	yet its main structure, a "pectinate lenticular" truss,
	allows the bridge to be relatively light. Describe the
	basic "look" of the bridge.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Aluminum does not "rust" - true or false?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Cant-oriel with center casement window (WI-084)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/contents.html

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