Green Wednesday 2007.1107

[ArchitectureWeek Editors]

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	"The London-based Carbon Trust, a company set up by the UK
	government to promote a low-carbon economy, has identified
	wave energy as one of Britain's most promising renewable
	resources, with the potential to provide up to 20 gigawatts
	of power by 2050. But the trust estimates that it could cost
	£2.2 billion (US$4.6 billion) in development to reduce the
	cost of wave-generated electricity from current estimates of
	between 12p and 44p to a competitive 6p per kilowatt-hour.
	
	"That sum may seem daunting to the British government acting
	on its own; but in global terms, it isn't much. The Carbon
	Trust estimates, for example, that Denmark has so far spent
	£1.3 billion on the development of wind power. The Japanese
	government has invested at least £1 billion in solar power.
	And don't mention it to the nuclear lobby, but the amount of
	public money invested to make atomic power fit-for-purpose
	was orders of magnitude higher."

A drop in the ocean - Wave power and other renewable-energy resources deserve carefully targeted government support.
Editorial in Nature - Nature 450, 135 (8 November 2007)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7167/full/450135a.html
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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Perkins+Will Announces Support for the 2030 Challenge - PR Web, 2007.1107
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb567708.htm

Eco-Architect Espouses Greener Buildings - Village Soup, 2007.1107
http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Business/story.cfm?storyID=102922

Bill Clinton, Green Building Council Launch Effort to Green US Schools - ENN, 2007.1107
http://www.enn.com/green_building/article/24318

Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee Appointed - Infozine, 2007.1107
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/25592/

How Silicon Valley Could Become the Detroit of Electric Cars - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.1107
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7392438?source=rss&nclick_check=1

Landslide Buries Mexican Village - BBC News, 2007.1106
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7081546.stm

VMware's New Open, Energy-Efficient Campus - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.1106
http://www.mercurynews.com/greenenergy/ci_7382921?nclick_check=1

Vancouver Builds Olympic Athletes' Village to LEED Standards - Journal of Commerce, 2007.1105
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id24960

Sun Town Planning Its Switch to Solar - The Australian, 2007.1105
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22702837-30417,00.html

Work Begins on New 'Green' School - BBC News, 2007.1105
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7078623.stm

Unaffordably GREEN? - Maine Today, 2007.1104
http://business.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=145147&ac=PHbiz

Turf Roof Is a Main Attraction - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.1104
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/04/BUQIT4TR7.DTL

Less Is More: Energy Efficiency in Alaska - Alaska Report, 2007.1103
http://alaskareport.com/news1107/z46890_alaska_energy.htm

Winners Close the Life-Cycle Loop - Sustainable Industries, 2007.1102
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/greenbuilding/10958606.html

A Sustainable Square in the Heart of Seattle - Sustainable Industries, 2007.1102
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/greenbuilding/10926251.html

Concrete Choices for the Environment - Concrete Contractor, 2007.1102
http://www.forconstructionpros.com/print/Concrete-Contractor/Features/Concrete-Choices-for-the-Environment/7FCP8798

Nature Nurtured - Building (UK), 2007.1102
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=583&storycode=3098777&c=0

The Art of the Living Roof - Los Angeles Times, 2007.1101
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/home/la-hm-roof1nov01,1,1124801.story?coll=la-home-printedition

18 Turbines Produce 56k Bags of Really Good Chips - Jetson Green (blog), 2007.1101
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2007/11/18-turbines-pro.html

Tate II Goes 'Green' without Label - Red and Black, 2007.1031
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2007/10/31/News/Tate-Ii.Goes.green.Without.Label-3066849.shtml

Are High-Rises Green? - San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2007.1031
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4867&catid=4&volume_id=317&issue_id=323&volume_num=42&issue_num=05

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