Green Wednesday 2008.0213
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed Feb 13 21:33:25 PST 2008
Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,
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weekly green design and building news from around the world.
Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas
emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions
costs of producing these "green" fuels are taken into
account, two studies being published Thursday have
concluded.
The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing
attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look
at the global environmental cost of their production.
These latest studies, published in the prestigious
journal Science, are likely to add to the controversy.
These studies for the first time take a detailed,
comprehensive look at the emissions effects of the huge
amount of natural land that is being converted to
cropland globally to support biofuels development.
The destruction of natural ecosystems -- whether rain
forest in the tropics or grasslands in South America --
not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
when they are burned and plowed, but also deprives the
planet of natural sponges to absorb carbon emissions.
Cropland also absorbs far less carbon than the rain
forests or even scrubland that it replaces.
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat - New York Times, 2008.0208
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/science/earth/08wbiofuels.html?scp=1&sq=biofuels+greenhouse&st=nyt
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Autodesk to Buy Green Building Studio - Smart Money, 2008.0212
http://www.smartmoney.com/news/on/index.cfm?story=ON-20080212-000815-1703
The LEED Shade of Green - New West, 2008.0212
http://www.newwest.net/magazine/article/the_leed_shade_of_green/C555/L555/
Infinia Dish Turns Out Solar Power with Stirling Engine - Green Tech Blog, 2008.0211
http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9868931-54.html?tag=newsmap
Financing the Transition from a Brown to a Green Global Economy - UNEP Press Release, 2008.0211
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=528&ArticleID=5741&l=en
UN Identifies Latin America, Caribbean as Key Fighters - EP Online, 2008.0211
http://www.eponline.com/articles/58317/
Europe's Tallest Tower to Be Among Most Sustainable Buildings - Pure Contemporary, 2008.0211
http://purecontemporary.blogs.com/behind_the_curtains/2008/02/europes-tallest.html
‘The Wild Center’ Receives LEED Silver Rating - PRWeb, 2008.0211
http://www.prweb.com/releases/HOK/Wild_Center/prweb688414.htm
Prince's Green Home Is Just Too Natural - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0211
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/11/ethicalliving.carbonemissions
Biofuel Demand Leading to Human Rights Abuses, Report Claims - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0211
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/11/biofuels.energy
Builders See Demand for Homes Based on Sustainability - La Crosse Tribune, 2008.0210
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/02/10/news/00lead.txt
Snow Havoc Decimating Chinese Forests - PhysOrg, 2008.0210
http://www.physorg.com/news121882979.html
BILD Rises to Sustainable, Green Building Challenge - Toronto Star, 2008.0209
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/301221
Jean Nouvel Designs a Green Machine for Century City - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0209
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-nouvel9feb09,0,1697178.story
Ancient Trees Give Clues to Climate Change - AlertNet, 2008.0208
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06317519.htm
Ship Kites in to Port - Nature, 2008.0208
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080208/full/news.2008.564.html
Mid-South Is Most Vulnerable Region to Tornadoes - PhysOrg, 2008.0208
http://www.physorg.com/news121698187.html
Venezuela to Fight Exxon's $12 Billion Asset Freeze - Bloomberg, 2008.0208
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aXQ6ODaYzM6Q&refer=news
Exhibit Shows How to Make a House Green - Daily Record, 2008.0208
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080208/ENT07/802080312/1089/ENT
University Questions LEED Rankings - Yale Daily News, 2008.0208
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23418
Water Woes - Nature, 2008.0207
http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0803/full/climate.2008.12.html
Google Says to Help Green Technologies Amass Scale - Reuters, 2008.0207
http://in.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idINIndia-31806420080207
Poor Projections - Nature, 2008.0207
http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0803/full/climate.2008.13.html
Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens - New York Times, 2008.0207
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/arts/design/07cour.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
KieranTimberlake Firm Award - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0206
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0206/news_1-1.html
The partners of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP approach
design as a holistic process that benefits from the
collective intelligence of architect, client, and others.
The American Institute of Architects has selected
KieranTimberlake to receive the 2008 AIA Architecture
Firm Award, recognizing the firm's approach to complex
challenges, its elegant buildings, its commitment to
sustainable design, and its extensive research.
People and Places - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0206
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0206/news_1-1.html
HGA Architects and Engineers in San Francisco, California
-- Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa --
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Carbondale in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland -- GTM
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in Los Angeles, California -- in Honolulu, Hawaii --
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ah'be landscape architects in Los Angeles, California...
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