Green Wednesday 2007.0502
ArchitectureWeek Editors
editor at architectureweek.com
Wed May 2 15:46:40 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.
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Several articles this week highlight the results of air pollution studies in the United States and China:
L.A. Tops List of Nation's Most Polluted - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Polluted-Cities.html
U.S. Air Pollution: Less Smog, but More Soot in East - Scientific American, 2007.0501
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=us-air-pollution-less-smo&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
Beijing Car Ban Cut Air Pollutants by 40% - China Daily, 2007.0501
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/01/content_864762.htm
And from last week, an estimate that China will surpass the US as the chief producer of greenhouse gases as early as this year:
China to Top USA in Greenhouse Emissions - USA Today, 2007.0424
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-04-24-china-emissions_N.htm
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Harvesting Houses for the Planet - BBC News, 2007.0502
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6612381.stm
Scientists Protest New Reading of ESA - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Endangered-Species.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The Eco-House - Independent Digital, 2007.0501
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/lifestyle/article2484664.ece
Coral Is Dying. Can It Be Reborn? - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/earth/01coral.html?ref=science
Coal's Energy Potential Is an Engineering Challenge Now - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html?ref=science
UN Facing a Backlash on Emissions Action Plan - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0429
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2068075,00.html
Fire Threat to Solar Tile Homes - Telegraph, 2007.0429
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/28/nsolar28.xml
Energy Independence - New York Times, 2007.0427
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/realestate/greathomes/27live_ready.html?ref=realestate
California Backs Lowering Formaldehyde in Wood - Scientific American, 2007.0427
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=california-backs-lowering&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
Housing Tango - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0425
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0425/design_1-1.html
Components Home - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0425
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0425/tools_1-1.html
Brazil to Split Up Its Environmental Agency - Reuters, 2007.0425
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25297208.htm
RAU Architects Convert Existing Building into Sustainable Office - World Architecture News, 2007.0425
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1022
Bloomberg Draws a Blueprint for a Greener City - New York Times, 2007.0423
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/nyregion/23mayor.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Reliance on Coal Sullies 'Green the Capitol' Effort - Washington Post, 2007.0421
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002128.html?nav=rss_politics/congress
Chicago Housing Complex Wins Green Design Award - AIArchitect, 2007.0420
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0420/0420d_chicago.cfm
Product News - Low-Maintenance Composite Decking from Weyerhaeuser
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0425/products_update.html
People and Places This Week - Chicago, Omaha, Baltimore, Tampa,
Kannapolis, San Francisco, Milan, Princeton, Thiruvananthapuram:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/people_and_places.html
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Classic Home 013 - 'Four-room bungalow', by Frederick L. Ackerman
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/classic_home.html
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It is hard to determine exact numbers, but it has been
estimated that commercial and residential buildings
consume about 65 percent of all electricity used in the
United States and about 40 percent of all raw materials.
These buildings account for about what percentage of
greenhouse gases?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/quiz.html
Architecture Answer - for last issue'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?
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