Green Wednesday 2007.1031

[ArchitectureWeek Editors]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you
weekly green design and building news from around the world. 

This Saturday, November 3rd, will be a national day of local
climate actions across the U.S., according to Step It Up 2007:

	http://www.stepitup2007.org/

As evidence pours in that shows how conservative the IPCC 
projections really were - and how the Kyoto response is hardly
enough to even start making a real difference:

	"Levels of greenhouse gases are rising faster this decade
	than they did during the 1990s, according to a new analysis.
	The research blames the acceleration on a combination of
	factors, including economic growth, intensive fossil-fuel
	use and, perhaps most worringly, an apparent decline in the
	oceans' ability to suck up carbon dioxide from the
	atmosphere."
	Greenhouse-Gas Levels Accelerating - Nature, 2007.1022
	http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071022/full/news.2007.186.html

We really do need to kick into a higher gear, toward full
societal mobilization around the climate change threat.

Maybe we'll see you out there on Saturday!


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Greenscrapers Are Here - Business Standard, 2007.1031
http://www.business-standard.com/economy/storypage.php?leftnm=3&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=302781&tab=r

2007 Historic Chicago Bungalow & Green Home Expo - Chi Town Daily News, 2007.1030
http://www.chitowndailynews.org/The+big+city/2007/10/30/2007_Historic_Chicago_Bungalow__Green_Home_Expo

Architects and Designers Look to Make Office Interiors 'Greener' - International Herald Tribune, 2007.1030
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/30/business/green.php

Green Buildings - Duke University News, 2007.1030
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/10/green.html

White House Adviser Linked to Cuts in Climate-Change Report - Nature, 2007.1030
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071030/full/450008b.html

Sustainable City - Green Building Festival Review - blogTO, 2007.1030
http://blogto.com/environment/2007/10/sustainable_city_green_building_festival_review/

Berkeley Plans to Beat Green Target - Telegraph, 2007.1030
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/30/cnberk130.xml

The Failure That Is the Suburbs - Ottawa Business Journal, 2007.1029
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/290168567213866.php

Remaking the Built Environment by 2030 - World Changing (blog), 2007.1029
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007475.html

Beyond the Doom and Gloom of Climate Change - Toronto Star, 2007.1027
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/270970

pieceHomes - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1026
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/26/piecehomes-ph-for-a-balanced-home/

Is the A/E/C Industry Ready for Process Reform? - Seattle Daily Journal, 2007.1025
http://www.djc.com/news/ae/11194203.html

Perkins + Will's Antilla "Green" Tower in Mumbai - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.1025
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/25/sites-residence-antilia-green-tower-in-mumbai/

Strategic Steps Down the Green IT Path - InfoWorld, 2007.1025
http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/10/strategic_steps.html?source=rss

Greener Green Roofs - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1024
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1024/environment_1-1.html
	The sedum roofs of today symbolize performance-oriented
	green roof design.  Like fine-tuned engines, they run on
	leaner artificial substrates with almost no organic
	matter; volcanic rock or expanded shale, baked at 2000
	degrees Fahrenheit (1093 degrees Celsius), make the
	substrates lighter and soil depths as thin as possible.

China's Green Energy Gap - New York Times, 2007.1024
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/business/worldbusiness/24power.html?em&ex=1193457600&en=bf6a4ece44f8b9b0&ei=5087%0A

Living Steel Competition 2007 - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1024
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1024/news_1-1.html
	Living Steel has announced the three winners of its
	second International Architecture Competition for
	Sustainable Housing. The consortium of steel companies
	challenged participants to design innovative,
	resource-efficient housing solutions using steel.

Recycling in Israel, Not Just Trash, but the Whole Dump - New York Times, 2007.1023
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/middleeast/24dump.html

Drilling for Energy: New York Buildings Tap into Geothermal Power - Resident Publications, 2007.1023
http://70.47.124.114/node/959


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	West Hollywood, California -- Perkins + Will and Guenther
	5 Architects in New York, New York...
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	Steel heated to about 752 degrees Farenheit (400 degrees
	Celsius) turns a red that is visible in the dark. At 975
	degrees Farenheit (524 degrees Celsius), the same steel
	would glow visibly during the daylight. At what
	temperature would the steel turn white with heat?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1024/answer.html

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