Green Wednesday 2007.0314

Wed Mar 14 17:28:37 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.

This week the quality and depth of sustainability-related coverage 
we can share with you is pretty amazing - to such an extent that 
any choice of highlight is pretty arbitrary.  I encourage you to 
dig into the list!

Still, the unveiling of the major proposed climate bill in the UK 
is not to be missed:

	The British government today revealed its draft climate
	bill, which sets out plans for a 60% cut in carbon
	dioxide emissions by 2050. The bill makes Britain the
	first major economy to lay out a comprehensive scheme for
	making wholesale greenhouse-gas reductions.

	The legislation, like the international Kyoto Protocol,
	will measure emissions against their 1990 levels. But the
	new plan will go far beyond the scope of Kyoto, which
	seeks to ensure an average 5.2% cut among developed-world
	nations by 2012.

Britain Introduces Sweeping Climate-Change Bill - Nature, 2007.0312
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070312/full/070312-3.html

And the announcement itself in online video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3F9TT2jDs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edefra%2Egov%2Euk%2Fnews%2Flatest%2F2007%2Fclimate%2D0313%2Ehtm

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Teaching Climate - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0314
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0314/index.html
	On February 20, 2007, architects and students worldwide
	demonstrated en masse that they are ready to go to work
	to stop global climate change. Their "gathering" was
	virtual, however, as schools, firms, and individuals from
	47 countries tuned in to the 2010 Imperative Teach-In
	webcast.

Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley - New York Times, 2007.0314
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/14valley.html

Scientist Says Sea Level Rise Could Accelerate - Reuters, 2007.0313
http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKNOA32949720070313

Light Rail Study Wins National Award - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, 2007.0313
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/10356.htm

£100,000 Banksy Painted Over - Metro, 2007.0313
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=40864&in_page_id=34

CH2: Australia's Greenest Building - Inhabitat, 2007.0313
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/03/13/ch2-australias-greenest-building/

Court Ices Resort's Use of Snow from Sewage on Sacred Mountain - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0313
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/13/america/NA-GEN-US-Fake-Snow-Religious-Freedom-Lawsuit.php

UN: U.S., Europe Deforestation Reversed - New York Times, 2007.0313
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-World-Forests.html

Ind. Circle Believed to Be Ancient Site - New York Times, 2007.0312
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mystery-Circle.html

Old Outside, Green Within - News & Observer, 2007.0312
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/552441.html

Sustainable Development in Today's Job Market - Grist, 2007.0312
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/12/133943/972

Eco Rebates for Developers - Courier Mail, 2007.0312
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21373987-3102,00.html

'Green' Homes to Create Own Power - Salt Lake Tribune, 2007.0312
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5415874

Government to Consider Building 'Eco-Towns' - New Builder, 2007.0312
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1875

The Real Riddle of Changing Weather - New York Times, 2007.0311
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/realestate/11cov.html?ref=realestate

Biofuels Boom Raises Tough Questions - Newsday, 2007.0310
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ethanol-qa,0,7692142.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Conserving Brick by Brick - Boston Globe, 2007.0310
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/03/10/conserving_brick_by_brick/

Lean, Green Home Machine - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007.0309
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/home/design/16866152.htm

U.S. Bars Talk of Climate Change Effects on Bears - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0308
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/306820_bears09.html

Big Homebuilders Lag on Green Building - New York Times, 2007.0307
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Residential-Green-Building.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

House Backs Federal Grants for Updating Sewer Systems - Denver Post, 2007.0307
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_5380691

The Sundanese House - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0307
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0307/culture_1-1.html
	Three hundred steps lead down to the Sundanese village of
	Kampung Naga. Here, in this valley of West Java,
	Indonesia, the people consciously maintain the knowledge
	of their ancestors and their traditional lifestyles in a
	close relationship with nature. This philosophy extends
	to their construction methods using local materials of
	timber, stone, bamboo, and palm leaves. ...

Product News - 	Green-Friendly Bio Glass from Coverings Etc.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/products_update.html

Classic Home 072 - Boomer House, by Frank Lloyd Wright
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/classic_home.html

People and Places This Week -
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/people_and_places.html

Green Building Forum
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     http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/forum-14.html
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     http://marketplace.designcommunity.com/

This Week's Quiz -	
	Ground rupture, ground shaking, and differential
	subsidence are three of the four main causes of
	foundation failure due to a seismic event. What is the fourth?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Please provide a definition of "gloss" as it refers to paint. 
	Rank these paint finishes from lowest light reflection to highest: 
	satin/silk, semi-gloss, eggshell.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Arched and geometric fixed windows (WI-072)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Lebanese Domestic Vernacular, by Victor A. Khoueiry 
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0306/culture_1-1.html

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