Green Wednesday 2007.0606

Wed Jun 6 17:56:48 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 Oregon, the state legislature is struggling with how much
slackening to allow in landmark land use laws that have restrained 
rural sprawl since 1975.  Rural sprawl drives increased per capita 
carbon emissions, yet the climate dimension has hardly registered 
in the Oregon debate.  Climate impacts need to be a key consideration 
in planning choices and regulations, starting (yesterday).

	Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed
	the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea
	levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many
	as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report
	said Monday.

	The study, released before World Environment Day on
	Tuesday, highlighted the risk the receding ice cover
	could accelerate global warming, because the icepacks
	cool the planet by reflecting heat into space.

	Even though much of the ice is in remote areas, such as
	polar regions and Greenland, the impact will be felt
	worldwide, U.N. Environment Program executive director
	Achim Steiner said.

	"The report underlines that the fate of the world's snowy
	and icy places in a climatically challenged world should
	be cause for concern in every ministry, boardroom and
	living room across the world," Steiner said.

U.N. Warns of Effects of Global Thaw - New York Times, 2007.0604
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-UN-Melting-Ice.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Let's Get Vertical - Common Ground, 2007.0606
http://commongroundmag.com/2007/06/onourradar0706.html

Architects Tap the Sun's Energy - Tampa Bay Business Journal, 2007.0604
http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2007/06/04/daily19.html

Green Building: The Foam Home - Arizona Republic, 2007.0604
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/12newstoday/articles/foamhouse06042007-CR.html

Recycling Mine Tailings into 'Green' Tiles - Sacramento Bee, 2007.0603
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/202827.html

Power Groups Get Carbon Billions - U.K. Times, 2007.0603
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1875565.ece

Making Water from Thin Air - Yuba Net, 2007.0602
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_58198.shtml

Abuse and Incompetence in Fight Against Global Warming - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0602
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2093835,00.html

Eco-Architecture Takes Hold in Asia - Wall Street Journal, 2007.0601
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118064860527220566.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Meet the People of Super Sustainable Community Springhill - New Consumer, 2007.0601
http://www.newconsumer.com/interviews/with/2360/

Sustainable Buildings Standard to Define Green Buildings - Cadalyst, 2007.0601
http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=430665

Gensler Achieves First LEED-Silver Auto Dealership - AIArchitect, 2007.0601
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0601/0601p_car.cfm

SmithGroup's Renewable Energy Facility Achieves LEED Platinum - AIArchitect, 2007.0601
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0601/0601p_leed.cfm

Sustainability Shines through Interior Designs. - Business Edge, 2007.0601
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/15568.cfm

Learning from the Work - COTEnotes, 2007.0600
http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_cote.cfm?pagename=cote%5Fa%5F200705%5Fwatson

Michigan Aerotropolis - Metro Mode Media, 2007.0531
http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/Aerotropolis0021.aspx

Carbon Credits Are 'Wrong' Says Benn - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0531
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2092553,00.html

Determining Shenzhen - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0530
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0530/building_1-1.html
	It is a historical fact that with economic transition
	comes environmental change. Perhaps there is no greater
	influence on the physical environment than the rapid
	industrial and economic development of towns and cities.

House Recycling - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0530
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0530/environment_1-1.html
	Depending on your generation, you may have been taught:
	"Waste not, want not." Thrift is certainly one incentive
	for deconstructing buildings for reuse. In addition, many
	of us are motivated by a desire to be environmentally
	sensitive, a fondness for antiques and other items from
	the past, a yearning to have more control over the
	quality of materials used in construction, or a
	recognition that many of the materials available for
	salvage are of higher quality than those produced today.

Heading for Carbon Zero: Why Your Next Home Will Be a Green One - New Consumer, 2007.0530
http://www.newconsumer.com/views/item/2326/

Green Architect Aims High - Recycling Today, 2007.0530
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/news/news.asp?ID=11472

Biofuel Breakthroughs & the Cellulosic Fuels Revolution - Renewable Energy Access, 2007.0528
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/reinsider/story?id=48637

Product News - CULTEC large-capacity plastic underground chambers
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0530/products_update.html

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    San Francisco, Eugene:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA was posthumously awarded the
	American Institute of Architecture's Gold Medal award. He
	was the sixth person to receive this award posthumously.
	The best known of the other five had a significant career
	outside of architecture. Who do I refer to?
	 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Recycle quiz: 
	a) Recycled aluminum requires about 5, 20, or 35 percent 
	of the energy required to produce virgin aluminum from bauxite?
	b) Recycling one ton of paper saves what volume of landfill? 
	c) Construction and demolition waste constitute about
	what percentage of the total solid waste stream in the
	United States - 20, 40, or 60 percent?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/answer.html

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