Green Wednesday 2007.0425

Wed Apr 25 17:14:04 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.

Coincidentally, I spent much of Tuesday evening at a local planning
hearing, eventually to testify that (city staff findings
notwithstanding) there is a locational component to the
systems-level carbon footprint and energy consumption driven by the
siting of a new regional hospital.

Since we've documented that vehicle miles traveled per person per day 
(VMT) around here run about four times greater for trip sources out 
at the edge of the urban growth boundary, compared to the VMT for the 
metropolitan core - and since my city has made a official commitment 
to reduce carbon emissions - I wanted to suggest that the 
sprawl/climate-change connection might deserve to be evaluated.

Meanwhile, back in China...

	"Up to about 50 residents per acre, roughly equivalent to
	Stockholm or Copenhagen, per-capita energy use falls
	fast. People walk and bike more, public transit makes
	economic sense, and there are ways to make heating and
	cooling more efficient. But then the curve flattens out.
	Pack in 120 people per acre, like Singapore, or 300
	people, like Hong Kong, and the energy savings are
	negligible. Dongtan, the team decided, should try to hit
	that sweet spot around Stockholm."

Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis - Wired, 2007.0424
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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U.N. Panel to Lay Out Steps on Warming - New York Times, 2007.0424
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Report.html

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons - New York Times, 2007.0424
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Want to Get Rich? It's Obvious: Get Green - Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2007.0422
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1135297.html

Eco-Heaven: A £500,000 Mud House - U.K. Times, 2007.0422
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687564.ece

The Birthplace of Earth Day Keeps the Faith - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0421
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070421.wxsantabarb21/BNStory/specialTravel/home

Buildings Going Green, Bigger and Taller - Toronto Star, 2007.0421
http://www.thestar.com/Athome/article/204257

Power Lines in New Link to Childhood Leukaemia - Telegraph, 2007.0421
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/21/nleuk21.xml

Norway Aims for Zero-Carbon Status, All Emissions Offset by 2050 - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0421
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2062357,00.html

Living the Dream - Chicago Sun-Times, 2007.0420
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/350277,CST-NWS-ghouse20.article

Housing Project Taps Wood-Waste Energy - Business Edge, 2007.0420
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/15177.cfm

Biomass Heat System Scrapped - Vancouver Sun, 2007.0418
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=db9efc51-cbd3-4ede-9129-249d9f8e039f

Sweetwater Creek - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0418
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0418/environment_1-1.html
Like many other buildings that receive the coveted Platinum-level LEED certification, the Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors Center, near Lithia Springs, Georgia, features numerous energy conservation measures and has a roof full of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity.

Bill That Would Mandate Green Building Standards Advances - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0418
http://www.mercurynews.com/realestate/ci_5693047

Buildings Fingered in NYC Carbon Inventory - Architectural Record, 2007.0416
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070416carbon.asp

Buildings are Big Belchers - BusinessWeek, 2007.0418
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/aid20070418_248242.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design

£67M Eden Project Will Show Perils of Warmer World - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0415
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057588,00.html

City Buildings Contribute to Emissions Problem - Columbia Journalist, 2007.0409
http://www.columbiajournalist.org/deadline/2005/article.asp?subj=city&course=deadline&id=1466

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People and Places This Week - Las Vegas, Aarhus, Boston, Minneapolis, 
    Silver Spring, Los Angeles:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0418/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

This Week's Quiz -	
	"Whatever a man does, that is who he is." These words
	were posted on a sign over the home of which famous
	architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrea Palladio, Thomas
	Jefferson, or Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0418/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	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/2007/0418/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Leaded glass casement windows in pegged timber frame (WI-027)
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