Green Wednesday 2007.0516

Wed May 16 15:55:55 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.

A vital forest area that has not been in the headlines enough:

	Canada [was urged Monday] by more than 1,500 scientists
	from more than 50 countries to strengthen protection of
	the increasingly threatened boreal forest, a key
	component in the planet's battle with climate change.

	Only 10 per cent of the forest is currently protected and
	the spread of logging, mining and oil and gas operations
	into Canada's large northern forest is putting at risk
	the largest carbon storehouse on Earth, the scientists
	state in the letter obtained by The Globe and Mail...

	Countries with tropical rain forests such as Brazil have
	long faced international pressure from conservationists,
	but Canada's forest is in many ways just as important to
	the planet, said scientist Terry Root of Stanford
	University, who signed the letter and has also authored
	several reports as a member of the United Nations
	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Scientists Plead for Protection of Forests - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0514
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070514.FOREST14/TPStory/National

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Bush Calls for Work for Higher Fuel Efficiency - New York Times, 2007.0515
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/us/15bush.html?ref=science

A Google for Green Building Products - Webware, 2007.0515
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9719405-2.html

Setting a Higher Green Standard - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0515
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/15/BAGQKPR2A81.DTL

Project to Develop Smart Homes to Tackle Climate Change - Cordis, 2007.0515
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=27679

Treadmill Desk Whittles While You Work - ZDNet, 2007.0515
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183744.html

Membership in Green Building Council Growing Exponentially - San Diego Business Journal, 2007.0514
http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=87246943.3800976.1473628.1396567.8711722.354&aID2=113347

Eco-Friendly and Stylish, Too - Marin Independent Journal, 2007.0514
http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_5893890

Climate Talks Face International Hurdles - New York Times, 2007.0514
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Germany-Climate-Change.html

China's Yangtze River at Risk of 'Disastrous' Bank Collapses - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0514
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/14/asia/AS-GEN-China-Yangtze.php

EPA Giving $71M to Cities to Clean Up Industrial Pollution - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0514
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070514-1413-pollutiongrants.html

Smart Building Becomes Standard Practice at Public Schools - San Diego Business Journal, 2007.0514
http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=48844047.7959859.1473654.7069331.2245186.357&aID2=113349

New Solar Panel Promises to Cut Energy Costs in Half - Daily Tech, 2007.0514
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7253

Slowing Deforestation Key to Climate Fight - Reuters, 2007.0514
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD302671.htm

Washington Utility to Build Solar Project - New York Times, 2007.0514
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Sunny-Washington.html

Green Envy - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0513
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/13/CMGA7PCMDH1.DTL

New Eco-Towns to Ease House Crisis - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0513
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2078506,00.html

Endangered Species Can Call Even Major Building Developers to Heel - Telegraph, 2007.0512
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/05/12/pwildlife112.xml

A Garden in the Sky - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0512
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/12/MNGGTPPKM01.DTL

Green Building Tax Breaks Too Costly for State Budget - In Business Las Vegas, 2007.0511
http://www.inbusinesslasvegas.com/2007/05/11/feature2.html

LEEDing on Formaldehyde in California - Healthy Building News, 2007.0511
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/070511formaldehyde.html

Pitt's Green Building Project Begins - WTOP News, 2007.0510
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=1137843

Green Group Urges Ban on Energy-Wasting Light Bulbs - PlanetSave, 2007.0510
http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/The_News/World_News/Green_group_urges_Hong_Kong_ban_on_energy-wasting_light_bulbs_200705108814/

Measuring Solar Access with the Solmetric SunEye - Environmental Building News, 2007.0509
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160510a.xml

Building Information Modeling and Green Design - Environmental Building News, 2007.0509
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160501a.xml

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     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0509/products_update.html

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	the orchestra section often has good sight lines but poor
	acoustics. In fact, if you don’t mind using binoculars,
	you may get better sound in the back balcony. Why is this
	so and how can it be fixed?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0509/quiz.html

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	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/2007/0509/answer.html

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