Green Wednesday 2007.0613

Wed Jun 13 14:17:56 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.

The climate change compromise negotiated at last week's G8 Summit tops green news this week:

	"A messy compromise was struck on climate change to save the
	Group of 8 Summit from major failure last week. 

	"The leaders of the developed countries signed a declaration
	that gives a target for reducing the global level of
	greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming, by at
	least half by 2050. 

	"But it mentions only the European Union, Japan and Canada as
	accepting this target. The United States and Russia will
	only 'seriously consider' it. 

	"This will allow enough 'wriggle room' for the US government
	not to commit itself to a timetable (or at least the same
	timetable) for emission reduction. However, Europe, Canada
	and Japan have for the first time signalled a self-set
	target to cut their emissions."

Messy G8 'Deal' on Climate Change Issue - The Star (Malaysia), 2007.0611
http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2007/6/11/columnists/globaltrends/17985818&sec=Global%20Trends

More responses to the G8 climate compromise:

Right to Be Suspicious - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0612
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/comment/0,,2100843,00.html

G8 Summit Voted to Let Planet Burn - Socialist Worker, 2007.0612
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=12041

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Solar Panels, Biofuel and Tidal Turbines in Bloomberg Plans - New York Times, 2007.0612
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/nyregion/12mayor.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Eco-Home Could Cut Family Fuel Bills by £800 a Year - Daily Mail, 2007.0612
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=461229&in_page_id=1770

Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive - New York Times, 2007.0612
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/washington/12energy.html?ref=science

'Most Sustainable House in the World' Challenge - 24Dash, 2007.0611
http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/21720.htm

Salvage Logging, Replanting Worse - Centre Daily, 2007.0611
http://www.centredaily.com/living/health/story/122489.html

A Browner Shade of Green: The New Water Rules - Planetizen, 2007.0611
http://www.planetizen.com/node/24957

First Zero-Carbon Home Unveiled - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0611
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,2100390,00.html

Just the Basics - Boston Globe, 2007.0610
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/06/10/just_the_basics/

Building Suppliers Go 'Green' - Cincinnati Enquirer, 2007.0610
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070610/LIFE08/706100382/1079

Switch It Off! - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0610
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2099577,00.html

Is Carbon Offsetting the Solution? (Or Part of the Problem?) - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0610
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2097417,00.html

The House That Hemp Built - Times Colonist, 2007.0609
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=752502e4-79d7-43ca-9c77-f5c87b7e4477&k=14884

Award Winning Green House Revealed - Edie, 2007.0608
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=13128&channel=0

Clinton Unwraps Global Green Program for Chicago Buildings - Midwest Business, 2007.0608
http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=17358

Caribbean's Reef-Building Coral at Risk - PhysOrg, 2007.0608
http://www.physorg.com/news100528145.html

Museum's Rooftop Habitat Takes Shape - Examiner, 2007.0608
http://www.examiner.com/a-770213~Museum_s_rooftop_habitat_takes_shape.html

Going Eco-Modern - Hartford Courant, 2007.0607
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ctreal0607.artjun07,0,6066160.story?coll=hc-headlines-business

Thunder? It's the Sound of Greenland Melting - CNN, 2007.0606
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/06/greenland.warming.reut/

(Australian) Sustainable Design Given Boost - Courier Mail, 2007.0606
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21859494-3102,00.html

Product News - Handheld Wireless Construction Camera from iBEAM
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0606/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - Colleville-sur-Mer, Cottonwood Shores, 
	New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hong Kong, San Diego, New York, 
	Higley, Seattle:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/people_and_places.html

For people concerned about our global climate crisis response...
    Petition for the Resignation of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin 
     http://www.petitiononline.com/griffout/petition.html

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This Week's Quiz -
	What is the difference between brass and bronze?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue'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/2007/0606/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
    Fixed metal slatted awning (WI-181)
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0606/contents.html

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