Green Wednesday 2008.0220

[ArchitectureWeek Editors]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you
weekly green design and building news from around the world. 
This edition is sponsored by the AIA:

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And here's some encouraging news from a city with, shall we say, 
a number of environmental challenges:

	Los Angeles is on the verge of adopting one of the toughest 
    U.S. residential green building plans, the Los Angeles Times 
    reports.
	
	The under-consideration plan--voted on by two city
	council committees Friday--would force all major
	commercial and residential developments to cut energy and
	water use using low-emission paints, recycled materials,
	irrigation systems and natural light.
	
	The city's more than 200 annual privately built projects
	over 50,000 square feet would have to incorporate a
	checklist of green features based off the Leadership in
	Energy and Environment Design (LEED) guidelines. ...

Los Angeles Considers Citywide Green Building Plan - Multi-housing News, 2008.0218
http://www.multi-housingnews.com/multihousing/content_display/industry-news/e3i759fab371cec787350eec90bdf70eec4


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Shell Says Cheap Renewable Energy Still Far Off - Reuters, 2008.0221
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKL2181214020080221

World Switches on to Earth Hour Switch-Off - Times of India, 2008.0220
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Blackout_on_March_29/articleshow/2798457.cms

Floods Kill 10, Force Thousands to Flee in Philippines - Reuters, 2008.0219
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSMAN7770520080219

Buildings on Campus Are Big Energy Eaters - BYU NewsNet, 2008.0219
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/67500

Kansas Lawmakers Pass Bill Favoring Coal Expansion - Reuters, 2008.0219
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1926196520080219

Scientists Urged to Plan for the Next US President - Nature, 2008.0219
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080219/full/451875a.html

Sustainability - Give the Code Teeth - QS Week, 2008.0219
http://www.qsweek.com/nav?page=qsweek.contentspage&fixture_page=7112812&resource=7112812&view_resource=7112812

How to Go Green in the Historic District - Frederick News Post, 2008.0219
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=71446

LED Bulbs: Efficient Lighting Is Here to Stay - TriplePundit, 2008.0219
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/led-bulbs-efficient-lighting-i-002851.php

The Double-Envelope House - Mother Earth News, 2008.0218
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes/1982-03-01/The-Double-Envelope-House.aspx

Polar Creatures Squeaked through Last Ice Age - Nature, 2008.0218
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080218/full/news.2008.606.html

New Data Center Facilities Company Finds Green Home on the Range - ZD Net, 2008.0218
http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=812&tag=nl.e539

Crop Biofuels 'Create Carbon Debt' - SciDev Net, 2008.0215
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=4238&language=1

Arctic Mapping Redraws Borders - Nature, 2008.0215
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080215/full/news.2008.603.html

Arboretum Visitor Center Stands Tall - AIArchitect, 2008.0215
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0215/0215d_bernheim.cfm

In-House Gray Water Systems: Simple Solutions for Water Management - TriplePundit, 2008.0214
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/inhouse-gray-water-systems-sim-002909.php

Earth-Friendly Vision Leads to Construction of "Hybrid Home" - Kansas City Star, 2008.0213
http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/488297.html

Revisioning the Suburbs - Minnesota Public Radio, 2008.0214
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/02/14/revisioningthesuburbs/

People and Places  - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0213
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0213/news_1-1.html
	Perkins + Will in San Francisco, California -
	KlingStubbins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Mortenson
	Construction in Minneapolis, Minnesota - RKT&B, with
	Perkins Eastman and FMA Architects Ltd. in Abuja,
	Nigeria - RTKL Associates Inc. in Dallas, Texas -
	PSA-Dewberry and Architectural Nexus in Goodyear,
	Arizona - Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Asheville, North
	Carolina - FXFOWLE International, LLC in Dubai, United
	Arab Emirates...

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