Green Wednesday 2008.0409
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Apr 10 10:28:14 PDT 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.
For close observers, the signs are myriad that the IPCC climate
analysis has been cautious, to the sad extent of significantly
underplaying the urgency of the crisis.
Now James Hansen at NASA and eight co-authors have detailed an
independent line of evidence supporting the same idea:
One of the world's leading climate scientists warns today
that the EU and its international partners must urgently
rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale
of the problem.
In a startling reappraisal of the threat, James Hansen, head
of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York,
calls for a sharp reduction in C02 limits.
Hansen says the EU target of 550 parts per million of C02 -
the most stringent in the world - should be slashed to
350ppm. He argues the cut is needed if "humanity wishes to
preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation
developed". A final version of the paper Hansen co-authored
with eight other climate scientists, is posted today on the
arXiv.org website. Instead of using theoretical models to
estimate the sensitivity of the climate, his team turned to
evidence from the Earth's history, which they say gives a
much more accurate picture.
Climate Target Is Not Radical Enough - Study - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0407
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
Full paper available here (download PDF): http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
If you haven't rolled up your sleeves yet, now would be a good time....
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Cost and Red Tape Hamper Colleges' Efforts to Go Green - Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008.0410
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i31/31a00103.htm
LEED Certified Parking Structure Generates Most Its Own Power - Jetson Green, 2008.0409
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2008/04/first-leed-cert.html
Museums Sprout 'Green' Architecture - Christian Science Monitor, 2008.0409
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0409/p13s03-sten.html
Natural Phenomenon - Vanity Fair, 2008.0409
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/05/renzo200805
Beyond Green Carpet and Paint - Sustainable Industries, 2008.0408
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/greenbuilding/17365739.html
Grand Design for the Green Generations - Sheffield Telegraph, 2008.0408
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news2/Grand-design-for-the-green.3956733.jp
Luxury Eco-Lodge Opens for Business - Easier Travel, 2008.0408
http://www.easier.com/view/Travel/Hotels/article-172460.html
Competing 'Green' Standards for Housing - Providence Business News, 2008.0408
http://www.pbn.com/stories/30648.html
Architects Working on a 'Green Zone' for Detroit - Model D Media (blog), 2008.0408
http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/aiasustain13808.aspx
Climate Target Is Not Radical Enough - Study - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0407
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
World's Largest Tidal Turbine Successfully Installed - MetaEfficient (blog), 2008.0407
http://www.metaefficient.com/news/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-successfully-installed.html
Bamboo Flooring: Ins and Outs - Triple Pundit, 2008.0407
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/bamboo-flooring-ins-and-outs-002997.php
Fuel-Cell Technologies Help National Research Council Facility Earn LEED Gold - Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2008.0407
http://dcnonl.com/article/id27140
How 'Green' Can a Huge House Be? - New York Times, 2008.0406
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/business/06newreal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Iceland: Life on Global Warming's Front Line - ABC News (Australia), 2008.0406
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/06/2209125.htm
Audubon's New Home Brings the Outdoors In - New York Times, 2008.0406
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/06sqft.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
Nobel Scientist Issues Warning on Global Warming - Reuters, 2008.0405
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05421527.htm
Architecture's Desert Experiment - AIArchitect, 2008.0404
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0404/0404d_masdar.cfm
World Bank Accused of Climate Change "Hijack" - Reuters, 2008.0404
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSBKK28941120080404?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
The Push to Greener Housing - Globe and Mail, 2008.0404
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080404.re-green-0404/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
The Greening of Greensburg - WorldChanging (blog), 2008.0403
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007934.html
Experts Fear UN Climate Panel Playing a 'Risky' Game - CanWest News Service, 2008.0402
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=44a5a740-0194-4968-91a9-2b21b9ae392e&k=77844
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Which subcontractor would use the term "selvage" (also
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