Green Wednesday 2007.0307

Wed Mar 7 22:16:53 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.

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	It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a
	series of horrible punch lines:

	How hot is it?  So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic
	Circle are using air conditioners for the first time.  And
	running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build
	igloos.  And falling through melting ice when they hunt.

	These circumstances are the current results of global
	climate change, according to Nobel Peace Prize nominee
	Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian
	Arctic, who maintains this constitutes a violation of
	human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas
	throughout the world.

Nobel Nominee Says Global Warming a Human Rights Issue - Scotsman Online, 2007.0304
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=343032007

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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The Sundanese House - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0307
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0307/index.html

Green Building Plants a New Image in Cityscape - Rocky Mountain News, 2007.0306
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/real_estate/article/0,1299,DRMN_414_5396984,00.html

Stone Towers Are Decoded as Earliest Solar Observatory in the Americas - New York Times, 2007.0306
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/science/06sola.html?ref=science

Green Roofs: Building for the Future - Alternet, 2007.0306
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/48530/

Asian Air Pollution Affects Storms over Pacific - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0306
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_Pollution_Storms.html

Blue Ribbon Blueprint - News & Observer, 2007.0306
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/549236.html

Hurdle for Green Rules on House Renovation - The Age, 2007.0305
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hurdle-for-green-rules-on-house-renovation/2007/03/04/1172943276260.html

First Green Building Rates Gold - Boston Globe, 2007.0304
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/04/first_green_building_rates_gold/

Studio Built with Straw Is Showplace of Green - Flint Journal, 2007.0304
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-42/117300817230890.xml&coll=5

Solar Home Lets in the Sun - OC Register, 2007.0303
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/homepage/article_1595912.php

Virtual Tours Could Help Build Better Policy Decisions. - Nature, 2007.0302
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070226/full/070226-14.html

European Lighting Industry Agrees to Push Energy-Saving Bulbs - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0301
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/01/europe/EU-FIN-Europe-Lighting-Companies.php

N.Y. Architects Go Green in Rebuilding New Orleans's Ninth Ward - New York Sun, 2007.0301
http://www.nysun.com/article/49568

ASHRAE: LEED Needs Integrated Teamwork - Arab Business, 2007.0301
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8580&Itemid=1

Germany's Solarworld Plans Largest Solar Energy Plant in US - Jurnalo, 2007.0301
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=20626

Environmental Center in Georgia - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0228
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0228/environment_1-1.html

Feel Right at Home While Going Green - Denver Post, 2007.0228
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5323165

Tax Breaks Proposed for Landowners Who Offer Habitats - Great Falls Tribune, 2007.0228
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070228/NEWS01/70228015/1002

B.C. Unwraps Energy Plan - Financial Post, 2007.0228
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=f36a2016-bc03-4b70-84ce-97ade6dcbfdf&k=49606

Green Building Design Challenge - Earth Times, 2007.0228
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,67100.shtml

USGBC Punts on PVC - Modern Plastics, 2007.0228
http://www.modplas.com/inc/mparticle.php?section=eweekly&thefilename=eweekly02012007_27

U.S. Green Building Council to Purchase First Green Bonds - G Net, 2007.0228
http://www.gnet.org/news/newsdetail.cfm?Page=1&NewsID=34667

"Change Your Bulbs," Moscow Tells Residents - Reuters, 2007.0228
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1313296220070228

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Architecture Answer - for last issue'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.
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     Gable-shaped hood over double-hung wood window (WI-110)
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