Green Wednesday 2007.0418

Wed Apr 18 16:32:12 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.

In a conversation between Bill Walsh, National Coordinator for
the Healthy Building Network, and Dr. Ted Schettler:

	BW: The US Green Building Council recently adopted the
	Precautionary Principle as one of six guiding principles
	for the organization. It is the first business
	association in the United States to make this commitment,
	and the only group that sets "green" standards that had
	done so. Why is this important?

	TS: It is important because it distinguishes the group
	and defines the green building movement as a serious
	effort to recreate a massive and fundamental sector of
	the global economy to be healthy and sustainable. The
	UN's 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
	stated that the precautionary approach needed to be
	widely applied if we were to avoid serious irreversible
	damage to the earth's living systems. The USGBC's
	approach is fair, wise, necessary, and ultimately cost
	effective because prevention usually costs less than
	remediation with more equitable distribution of costs and
	benefits."

Green Building & the Precautionary Principle - Healthy Building News, 2007.0412
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/070412schettler.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Locally Sourced Materials Can Reduce Emissions - New Builder (UK), 2007.0417
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1935

Earth Day Voices: Traci Rose Rider - World Changing (blog), 2007.0417
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006501.html

Global Warming May Put U.S. In Hot Water - New York Times, 2007.0417
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Warming-Water.html

Group: China Buying Threatened Hardwood - Centre Daily, 2007.0417
http://www.centredaily.com/135/story/71252.html

EPA Chief: Bush Climate Policy Working - CNews, 2007.0417
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/17/4045789-ap.html

Can Seattle Recycle 72% of Its Waste? It Won't Be Easy - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0416
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/311774_waste16.html

June Date for UK's First Top Level Sustainable House - Building Magazine, 2007.0416
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3085018&c=2

Plant My Roof, Stretch My Green - CNN, 2007.0416
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/16/news/economy/green_roofs/?postversion=2007041709

The Power of Green - New York Times, 2007.0415
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html?em&ex=1176955200&en=208ae7c70bd5bc98&ei=5087%0A

China's Yangtze River Extensively Polluted - Reuters, 2007.0415
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T309582.htm

Eden Project Will Show the Perils of a Warmer World - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0415
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057588,00.html

Carbon-Free by the Sea: The Ultimate Green House - The Independent, 2007.0415
http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article2449862.ece

Lean Green Rehab Machine - Chicago Sun-Times, 2007.0415
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/339740,CST-SPT-tuck13.article

S.F. Hopes to Set Example with New Green Tower - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0413
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/13/MNGVFP852Q1.DTL

Prefab Construction: Green or Greenwashing? - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.0413
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/04/13/prefab-construction-green-or-greenwashing/

The New Wave of Energy Efficient Homes - Spiegel, 2007.0413
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,476279,00.html

COTE Top Ten Green Buildings - AIArchitect, 2007.0413
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0413/0413n_cote.cfm

India Set to Check Environmental Pulse - Nature, 2007.0412
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-12.html

GreenDC Week: Ways to Help Save the World - Washington Post, 2007.0412
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041200722.html

Dutch Prepare for Global Warming - World Architecture News, 2007.0412
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=995

House on Red Hill - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0411
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/index.html
	"Red Hill is the culmination of ideas and interpretations
	we have been considering over many years," says
	Botterill. He and Harty had worked under some of
	Australia's best known architects and developed ideas
	about how to roll modern architecture into an
	environmentally conscious building. The result is the Red
	Hill Residence, their first major completed project.

Saving the Taj Mahal - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0411
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0411/culture_1-1.html
	...Despite this beauty, any visitor to the Taj Mahal, in
	the tourist-crowded city of Agra, is quickly made aware
	of the building's fragility and the damaging effect
	people and air pollution have had on it. The two million
	visitors per year must now remove or cover their shoes
	before approaching the building to reduce the trampling effect...

People and Places This Week - Fort Worth, New York, Krakow, 
    Port Aransas, Seagrove Beach, Pyrmont:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/people_and_places.html

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Classic Home 073 - Red Hill House, by Christopherchris Architecture
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/classic_home.html

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	If your client is uncomfortable with their potential 
    contractor's ability to perform the construction job, 
    what type of bond would you suggest requiring of the 
    contractor?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/quiz.html

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	Did the Russian revolution during the early part of the 
    20th century stimulate or inhibit Architecture?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/answer.html

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