Green Wednesday 2007.0411

Wed Apr 11 14:56:06 PDT 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.

The leading international scientific journal Nature continues to
provide great climate change coverage, this week on the new IPCC
report (and I hope they'll forgive the longish excerpt)...

	Attention is now shifting from arguments over whether the
	world is warming to what should be done about it. And all
	six-billion-plus on the planet should be concerned, the
	IPCC's report implies. The people most vulnerable will be
	those who live at or near sea level, often crowded into
	cities along the coast. But drought, disease and extreme
	weather events will also become more frequent around the
	world, threatening the lives and livelihoods of countless
	more.

	"No one will escape the impacts of a warming planet," says
	Patricia Romero Lankao, a sociologist at the National Center
	for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and an author
	of the report.

	What's more, many of the effects of climate change are
	already evident in physical and biological systems, the
	report says (see map). Regional climate changes are
	affecting natural systems on every continent, with the
	Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asian mega-deltas among the
	worst affected.

	The Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
	report is the second installment of the IPCC's Fourth
	Assessment, a summary of the current state of knowledge
	about climate change. The third assessment was published in
	2001. Crucially, this report is the first to link actual
	data on how natural systems are responding to the amount of
	warming they have experienced. "For the first time we are no
	longer arm-waving with models," says Martin Parry, co-chair
	of the IPCC's Working Group II.

Climate Takes Aim - Nature, 2007.0409
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/446706a.html

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports Web Site
   United Nations Environment Programme
   http://www.unep.org/themes/climatechange/ipcc/

More related climate coverage:

Buildings Can Play a Key Role in Combating Climate Change - ScienceDaily, 2007.0409
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070407150947.htm

Return of the Dust Bowl? - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402-9.html

Effects of Climate Change Tallied Up - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402-10.html

Car emissions are EPA's problem - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/446589a.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Cost of Achieving New Code for Sustainable Homes - eGovMonitor (UK), 2007.0410
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/10271

Saving the Planet Lifts Rents - News & Observer, 2007.0409
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/562155.html

Graduating to Green - Boston Globe, 2007.0408
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/08/graduating_to_green/

Green Homes Ripen - Myrtle Beach Sun News, 2007.0408
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/17045728.htm

Architectural Idealist - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0407
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/07/HOGHVP2AAP1.DTL

'Call a Brick Wall a Brick Wall' - Frontline (India), 2007.0407
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070420005013000.htm

Green Housing Gains Ground - Miami Herald, 2007.0406
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/63842.html

Army Mandates 'Green' Construction - Redstone Rocket, 2007.0406
http://www.al.com/redstone/index.ssf?/base/news/117588700689190.xml&coll=1

Solar Power Breakthrough at Massey - Stuff, 2007.0405
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4017784a13.html

Richard Rogers Pritzker Prize - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0404
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0404/index.html
	The Pritzker Prize, one of the world's highest honors in
	architecture, goes this year to British architect Richard
	Rogers. In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J.
	Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said:
	"Rogers is a champion of urban life and believes in the
	potential of the city to be a catalyst for social change."

Big Ripples - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0404
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0404/environment_1-1.html
	Magic in architecture often occurs when the client
	presents the architect with clear criteria and formidable
	challenges and when, rather than engineer around
	obstacles, the designer embraces the challenges as
	opportunities to enrich the project.

Architecture: Green and Greener - World Changing (blog), 2007.0403
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006412.html

Product News - Norman Foster Chair, 80% recycled content aluminum
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0404/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - St. Louis, New York, Giljon, 
    West Hollywood, New York, Boston, San Diego:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0404/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	Did the Russian revolution during the early part of the 
    20th century stimulate or inhibit Architecture?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0404/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	We are all familiar with the term "spaciousness" as
	describing a spatial quality. In designing a performance
	space for classical music, this word also describes an
	acoustic quality. Please define "spaciousness" as an
	acoustic quality and explain how it relates to
	spaciousness in the spatial sense.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0404/answer.html

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     Worn and weathered double-hung wood window in painted brick wall (WI-046)
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