Green Wednesday 2007.0509

[ArchitectureWeek Editors]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you
weekly green design and building news from around the world.

At the 150th anniversay national AIA Convention in San Antonio 
last week, Al Gore gave a really super culminating presentation,
to a strong, sincere, sustained standing ovation.  

And there were many excellent green design and building presentations,
including one from Doug Farr, based on his forthcoming book on green
community design and LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND), 
in which he pointed out:

	It is no longer acceptable to make a walkable place
	without green buildings; or to build green buildings in
	the wrong places; or to fail to optimize infrastructure
	for the place and buildings.

    Farr Associates
    http://www.farrside.com

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Solar Boat Completes Fuel - Free Voyage - New York Times, 2007.0508
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Switzerland-US-Solar-Crossing.html

Delegates Work on Climate Change Accord - New York Times, 2007.0508
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Conference.html

'Green Building' Isn't as Simple as Building Green - Realty Times, 2007.0508
http://realtytimes.com/rtcpages/20070508_greenbuild.htm

Renewal on the Riverbank - Oregon City News, 2007.0508
http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=117831063199010600

Mayor's Green Building Code Still Lags Behind Other Cities - Opinion at Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 2007.0508
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=12763

Scientists Find Residue in Oregon Streams - New York Times, 2007.0507
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Rivers-Drugs.html

Steelhead Listed as 'Threatened' Species - New York Times, 2007.0507
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Puget-Sound-Steelhead.html

OHSU Center First to Achieve LEED Platinum - ACP Pubs, 2007.0507
http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6439822.html

When Concrete Goes from Gray to "Green" - Independent Mail, 2007.0506
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2007/may/06/when-concrete-goes-gray-green/

Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/yourmoney/06fourth.html?em&ex=1178596800&en=8be02005bec26dbe&ei=5087%0A

Shops and Offices to Go Eco-Friendly - The Independent, 2007.0506
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2516742.ece

When Carbon Is Currency - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/yourmoney/06emit2.html?ex=1179115200&en=3db517b80bdd014f&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS

More Low-Income Housing Being Built Green - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0505
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/314533_green05.html?source=mypi

Monsanto Patent Rejected after 13 Years - Nature, 2007.0504
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070430/full/070430-14.html

Fresh from the Depths - Building Design, 2007.0504
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3086263&origin=BDweekly

The EcoManor Is LEED-Certified, but Still a Monstrosity - UnBeige, 2007.0504
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/architecture/the_ecomanor_is_leedcertified_but_still_a_monstrosity_58270.asp

Biggest Energy Efficiency Steps in 30 Years - Scoop, 2007.0503
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00101.htm

"Beantown" to "Greentown" - Revitalization Online, 2007.0503
http://www.revitalizationonline.com/article.asp?id=1788

WWF: Stopping Climate Change Is Possible - WWF Press Release, 2007.0502
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2007/2007-05-02-01.asp


Product News - 	Retractable Window Screens from JELD-WEN(R)
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0502/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - Indianapolis, San Francisco, Hollywood, 
     Oakland, Incheon, Rosemont:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/people_and_places.html

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Classic Home 013 - 'Four-room bungalow', by Frederick L. Ackerman
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/classic_home.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	The Roman Colosseum is an amphitheatre begun by Vespasian
	in AD 70 and completed by Domitian 12 years later. How
	many people could it seat: 15,000? 30,000? 50,000?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	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/2007/0502/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
	Repetitive fenestration of three-mullion windows with raised 
	panel spandrels, modern commercial building (WI-158)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Costs of Dumb Growth, by John Fregonese and Lynn Peterson
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0508/index.html

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