Green Wednesday 2007.0718

Wed Jul 18 18:55:50 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.

Results from a recent study by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reveal distressing facts about pollution in China:

	Hundreds of millions of people are being made ill every year
	or dying prematurely from pollution caused by China's
	breakneck economic growth, a leading economic thinktank has
	concluded following an 18-month investigation.

	The OECD study, prepared at China's request, draws on work
	by the government, World Bank and Chinese Academy of
	Sciences to spell out the scale of the ecological crisis now
	engulfing the country, poisoning its people and holding it
	back economically.

	It says up to 300 million people are drinking contaminated
	water every day, and 190 million are suffering from water
	related illnesses each year. If air pollution is not
	controlled, it says, there will be 600,000 premature deaths
	in urban areas and 20 million cases of respiratory illness a year
	within 15 years.

	The Deadly Price of China's Miracle - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0718
	http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2128826,00.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Japanese Nuclear Reactor Under-Designed for Earthquake? - Nature, 2007.0717
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070716/full/070716-3.html

World Bank Death-by-Pollution Figures Baseless - China - Reuters, 2007.0717
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-07-17T123154Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-285151-1.xml&archived=False

Glaciers in Retreat - New York Times, 2007.0717
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/earth/17glacier.html?ref=science

A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization - New York Times, 2007.0717
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17tier.html?ref=science

Australian Prime Minister Outlines Carbon Trading Policy - The Age, 2007.0717
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pm-outlines-emissions-policy/2007/07/17/1184559768167.html

Eco-Architect from Israel Builds Homes for the Future - Israel21c, 2007.0716
http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1709&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Democracy

Greener New Buildings for San Francisco - , 2007.0716
http://www.examiner.com/a-830083~Greener_new_buildings_for_S_F_.html

Shanghai Embracing Green Buildings for World Expo - China Economic Net, 2007.0716
http://en.ce.cn/Insight/200707/16/t20070716_12181749.shtml

Fears over Power Lines in National Parks - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0715
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6780982,00.html

The Cost of Saving Energy - New York Times, 2007.0715
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/realestate/15cov.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

System Relies on Ice to Chill Buildings - ABC News, 2007.0714
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3378240&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Clean Hub - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.0713
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/13/prefab-friday-clean-hub/

Traditional Buildings 'More Eco-Friendly' - Telegraph, 2007.0713
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/13/eahouse113.xml

Rooftops Key to Florida Green Energy Goal - Scientific American, 2007.0713
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=rooftops-key-to-florida-g&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters

Brazil to Build Dams Despite Bolivian Concerns - Reuters, 2007.0713
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1324970420070713

Everything Begins with a Tight Envelope - EDC, 2007.0712
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Featured_Special_Sections/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000134838

China Hits Back at Defiant Polluters - The Age (Australia), 2007.0712
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/China-hits-back-at-defiant-polluters/2007/07/12/1183833665046.html

Smart Growth, New Urbanism and Green Building - EDC, 2007.0712
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Featured_Special_Sections/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000135420

New Federal Building Makes Waves in San Francisco - Epoch Times International, 2007.0712
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-12/57584.html

LEED for Retail - EDC, 2007.0712
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Featured_Special_Sections/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000135593

Canadian LEED Program to Consider Operating Criteria - Daily Commcercial News and Construction Record, 2007.0706
http://dcnonl.com/article/id23510

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     http://www.archweek.com/2007/0711/products_update.html

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