Green Wednesday 2008.0305

Wed Mar 5 19:49:05 PST 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

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

Building (UK) brings us some interesting discussion around Foster's 
new Terminal 3 building at Beijing Capital International Airport...

	Beijing airport is supposed to be sustainable. I am not
	really sure what a sustainable airport is. It is not
	particularly reassuring (except for airport builders, no
	doubt) to discover that China is planning to build a few
	more airports over the next 10 years – well, 97 more
	airports, in fact. Will all these be sustainable? Or will
	they be built by the home team on the Trabant model?
	Airports, like motorways, generate traffic.

Beijing Flies into an Unsustainable Future - Building (UK), 2008.0228
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3107682&origin=bldgdailynews

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Living Roofs and Walls Technical Report Released - AZoBuild, 2008.0305
http://www.azobuild.com/news.asp?newsID=5244

Nuclear Power Not Efficient Enough to Replace Fossil Fuels, Study Finds - Science Daily, 2008.0305
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304100413.htm

Drawing Up Green Blueprints - Columbus Dispatch, 2008.0304
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/03/04/sci_greenbuild.ART_ART_03-04-08_B4_UV9FCLJ.html?sid=101

LED Alternatives to Linear Fluorescents - Green Lodging News, 2008.0304
http://www.greenlodgingnews.com/Content.aspx?id=1909

Renewable Energy Accelerates Meteoric Rise - UNEP, 2008.0304
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=528&ArticleID=5754&l=en

Minn. Green Policy Looms over Neighbor - Washington Post, 2008.0304
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030400363.html?tid=informbox

"Eat Whale and Save the Planet" - Norwegian Lobby - Reuters, 2008.0303
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEIC37493020080303

UN Warns of Climate Change in Mideast - Washington Post, 2008.0303
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302282.html?tid=informbox

Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan - Washington Post, 2008.0303
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030301635.html?tid=informbox

Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault - Washington Post, 2008.0303
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302781.html?sub=AR

Green Sports Car Set for Launch - BBC News, 2008.0303
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7265267.stm

"Living" Building Steps Lightly to Give Back to Nature - AIArchitect, 2008.0229
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0229/0229d_schaar.cfm

Mississippi State Brings Sustainability Down Home - AIArchitect, 2008.0229
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0229/0229p_mobile.cfm

New Stanford Environmental-Science Building Uses Its Own Standards, Not LEED's - Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008.0228
http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/1761/new-stanford-environmental-science-building-uses-its-own-standards-not-leeds

Leave It Off - and Put Pounds On - Reuters, 2008.0227
http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/02/27/leave-it-off-and-put-pounds-on/

Positive 'Green House' Effect - Star-Ledger, 2008.0227
http://www.nj.com/homegarden/design/index.ssf/2008/02/positive_green_house_effect.html

First Hong Kong Biennale - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0227
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0227/index.html
	Construction frenzy may have taken hold of Shanghai and
	Beijing, not to mention China's hundreds of other towns
	and cities. But for the past ten years, Hong Kong has
	floated behind serenely, like a successful, rather
	conservative older cousin. 

Royal Welcome to First 'Trim Town' - Scotsman Online, 2008.0224
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Royal-welcome-to-first-39Trim.3810001.jp

Carbon Neutral U - Metropolis, 2008.0220
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3150

Driving the Car of the Future - BBC News, 2008.0211
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4686826.stm

Pioneers Look Forward to Solar Future - BBC News, 2008.0210
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4685150.stm

People and Places  - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0227
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_1-1.html
	NTD Architecture in Rancho San Diego, California -
	CommArts and Cohos Evamy in Calgary, Canada - McLarand
	Vasquez Emsiek & Partners in Irvine, California -
	Philippe Rondeau Architecture in Jinan, China - LAB
	Architecture Studio in Nanjing, China - SmithGroup in
	Detroit, Michigan - RTKL Associates Inc. in Sun City
	West, Arizona...

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	2.  Born on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, in 1901.
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