Green Wednesday 2007.0801
ArchitectureWeek Editors
editor at architectureweek.com
Wed Aug 1 17:35:51 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.
Alarmed at recent indications of climate change here in the
Amazon and in other regions of Brazil, the government of
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has begun showing signs
of new flexibility in the tangled, politically volatile
international negotiations to limit human-caused global
warming.
The factors behind the re-evaluation range from a drought
here in the Amazon rain forest, the world¹s largest, and the
impact that it could have on agriculture if it recurs, to
new phenomena like a hurricane in the south of Brazil. As a
result, environmental advocates, scientists and some
politicians say, Brazilian policy makers and the public they
serve are increasingly seeing climate change not as a
distant problem, but as one that could affect them too.
Brazil remains suspicious of foreign involvement in its
management of the Amazon, which it views as a domestic
matter. But negotiators and others who monitor international
climate talks say Brazil is now willing to discuss issues
that until recently it considered off the table, including
market-based programs to curb the carbon emissions that
result from massive deforestation in the Amazon, in which
areas the size of New Jersey or larger are razed each year.
Brazil, Alarmed, Reconsiders Policy on Climate Change - New York Times, 2007.0731
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/world/americas/31amazon.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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LEED Library in Homer, Alaska - Homer Tribune, 2007.0801
http://www.homertribune.com/article.php?aid=1950
UN Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries - Reuters South Africa, 2007.0801
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN127083.html
National Association of Counties Accepts Carbon-Neutral Challenge - EDC, 2007.0801
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Breaking_News/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000144659
Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Detected for First Time off Texas - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0731
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5015401.html
Raging Fire Forces Mass Evacuation on Canarie Islands - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.0731
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/raging-fire-forces-mass-evacuation/2007/07/31/1185647854948.html
Cheney Role in Water Policy Explored - Washington Post, 2007.0731
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101724.html?hpid=sec-politics
High-Performance Home - GreenOptions (blog), 2007.0730
http://greenoptions.com/2007/07/30/smart_homeowner_better_home_better_planet
Brown Clouds Boost Global Warming - Nature, 2007.0730
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-6.html
The House That Hemp Built - CanWest News Service, 2007.0730
http://www.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/story.html?id=0606877a-db03-46f7-acc4-f56a86b9990d
Big Rise in Number of Atlantic Storms Blamed on Global Warming - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0730
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jul/30/sciencenews.climatechange
Living Green, by Design - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0729
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-greenhouse29jul29,0,6789414.story?coll=la-home-center
Cloudy Germany Unlikely Hotspot for Solar Power - Scientific American, 2007.0729
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=cloudy-germany-unlikely-h&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters
Getting Green under One Roof - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0728
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/BU76R8SO33.DTL
Green Building Isn't 'One-Size-Fits-All' Solution - Marin Independent Journal, 2007.0728
http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_6491711
Apartment Tower in NYC Saves Energy Several Ways - Toronto Star, 2007.0728
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/239467
Gel Gets Heavy with Metals - Australian Broadcasting Company, 2007.0727
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1989897.htm
Number of Environmental Cops Decreasing - ABC News, 2007.0726
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3416083
Seeking Green Normal with the CEC - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0725
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0725/environment_1-1.html
Building Green? Your Neighbors May Block You. - Daily Green, 2007.0725
http://www.thedailygreen.com/2007/07/25/want-to-build-green-your-neighbors-may-try-to-block-you-is-it-greenfear/4303/
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JLG Architects in Grand Forks, North Dakota - WWCOT in
Modesto, California - ADD Inc in Miami, Florida -
de Architekten Cie. in Bucharest, Romania - FXFOWLE
Architects, PC in South Mumbai, India - OWP/P in
Arlington Heights, Illinois...
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0725/people_and_places.html
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In response to concerns about climate changes, there has
been a movement in several areas of the country to
require higher levels of environmental responsibility in
the design and construction of buildings. In some cases
this effort is led by architects, such as in Oregon,
where architects have helped initiate legislation (not
yet adopted) requiring state-funded buildings over a
certain size and cost to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design) Gold standards. Many of us
think of "green" architecture as being mostly concerned
with energy conservation. LEED addresses energy and four
other major areas of concern. What are the four other
areas that LEED addresses?
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Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
Stainless steel should probably be considered stain-less
rather than stain-proof since it is not unusual to see
some rusting on stainless steel. How could some of this
rusting be prevented during fabrication?
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