Green Wednesday 2007.1121

[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. 

The IPCC has now completed their multi-year cycle of four historic
reports on the global scientific consensus:

	The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -
	the United Nations body that last month won the Nobel
	Prize for its efforts to boost understanding of climate
	change - has raised the tone of urgency with its latest
	report.
	
	Its new synthesis report, which aims to give
	policy-makers a concise summary of the findings of all
	three of its detailed research summaries released earlier
	this year, is notable for containing more pressing
	language relative to earlier output.
	
	Featured in the report is a discussion of "dangerous
	anthropogenic interference with the climate system" - a
	phrase that was absent from previous IPCC publications
	because of objections from some political delegates to
	the panel's conferences.
	
	"Delayed emission reductions significantly constrain the
	opportunities... and increase the risk of more severe
	climate change impacts," the report says. 

IPCC Talks Tough - Nature, 2007.1119
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071119/full/news.2007.269.html

More IPCC Report:
Call to Action - Houston Chronicle, 2007.1119
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5315273.html

Emissions Growth Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns - Washington Post, 2007.1118
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/11/18/ST2007111800216.html


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Crude Oil Rallies Past $96 a Barrel - RTT News, 2007.1120
http://www.rttnews.com/forex/FXTopStory.asp

Green Good Design - Architecten Web, 2007.1120
http://www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/redactie/redactie_detail.asp?iNID=11140

Can a Big Box Like Canadian Tire Really Be Green? - The Vancouver Sun, 2007.1119
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=c0007053-2e78-4f86-8ecb-fe9c378450a3

Merchandise Mart LEED Certification a Bellwether for Greening -
Commercianl Property News, 2007.1119
http://www.cpnonline.com/cpn/content_display/regions/midwest/chicago/e3i587be3b0ca270435fbd0ae73a88282e3

Clinton Library Gets 'Green' Roof - Associated Press, 2007.1119
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5idOeT09MYtgoxPlqv9FOHlFJNNpQD8T0AFU00

84 Ways You Can Help the Planet - Boston Globe, 2007.1118
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2007/11/18/84_ways_you_can_help_the_planet/

Eco Homes: For Green Gains, Stick in the Mud - Telegraph, 2007.1117
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/11/17/pgreen117.xml

Crowd Farm II: Piezoelectricity Potential - Triple Pundit, 2007.1116
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/crowd-farm-ii-piezoelectricity-002718.php

Dubiotech: New Largest Green Building in Dubai - Inhabitat, 2007.1115
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/15/dubiotech-new-worlds-largest-green-building-in-dubai/

Clinton Library Earns LEED Platinum - CSR Newswire, 2007.1114
http://www.csrwire.com/News/10132.html

Luxury and Conservation in Africa's Cradle of Humanity - ABC News, 2007.1114
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=3858181&page=1

L-House on the Prairie - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1114
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1114/today.html

	In the 19th century, the great majority of the houses of
	western Minnesota were cheap, plain, awkward, and
	unlovely. Harmony and unity emerged from the mundane
	clutter, however, in the form of the classic L-house,
	which became representative of much of the farming way
	of life in the Midwest.
	
	When the prairie families earned enough money to move
	out of their cabins and sod houses, they often built
	modest rectangular-shaped, one-and-a-half-story houses
	with simple gable roofs. These structures became
	L-houses when the families earned enough to add on the
	kitchen L and porch of a complete L-house.
        ... full story continues online (14 images, four free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_1-1.html

Schooling Sustainably - Canadian Architect, 2007.1114
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=192409&story_id=56507145745&issue=10012007&PC=

Smart Software Will Help Design Green Buildings - Smart Planet, 2007.1113
http://www.smartplanet.com/news/household/10000197/smart-software-will-help-design-green-buildings.htm

Chicago's Supersize Green Buildings - Cnet, 2007.1113
http://www.news.com/2300-13842_3-6218360.html?tag=nefd.top

Report: Carbon Removal Has Little Impact - New York Times, 2007.1113
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-US-Climate-Change.html

High Price Means a Hard Sell for Hybrid Trucks - ZD Net, 2007.1112
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6218008.html


Product News - Bracket-Mounted Gutter System from RHEINZINK(R)
     http://www.archweek.com/2007/1114/products_update.html

People and Places Page 2007.1114
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_1-1.html

	Ankrom Moisan Associates Architects in Portland, Oregon -
	Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Douglas, Georgia - Michael Graves
	& Associates in Detroit, Michigan - Halcrow Yolles in
	Chicago, Illinois - Roldan + Berengue, arqts. in
	Barcelona, Spain - SmithGroup and Stantec Architecture
	(Chong Partners) in Antioch, California - Baker Barrios
	Architects, Inc. in Orlando, Florida - CO Architects in
	Escondido, California - HOK Sport in London, England,
	United Kingdom - Perkings Eastman, Basler Mosa Design
	Group, and The Liebman Melting Partnership in New York,
	New York - Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects in
	Assen, Netherlands - HOK in Chicago, Illinois...
	... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1114/news_1-1.html

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	Of standard, modular, and Norman brick, which has the
	greatest volume?
	http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
    Destroyed during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, this
	single-span bridge was reconstructed and reopened in
	2004. What is the name of this famous bridge, originally
	constructed in 1566?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/answer.html

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