Green Wednesday 2008.0430

Thu May 1 03:49:29 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. 

This week in ArchitectureWeek we sum up whay and just how seriously 
designers and builders should care about climate change.  The cover
story starts like this...

	Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA
	Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote
	address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from
	thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to get in.

	Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate change,
	anchoring the powerful presentation with this silver spur to
	action for design professionals:

	Never before in the history of our species has the opportunity
	and responsibility to decisively affect the continuation of
	life as we know it lain in the hands of a single profession,
	as it does today with architects.

	The case for such drama is pretty simple. Around a third of
	the world's greenhouse gas emissions currently come from the
	production, operation, and occupancy of the world's buildings.
	While much of society affects the location, development, and
	use of buildings in one way or another, no other professional
	is as central to these processes as architecture.

Tackling Climate Change - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0423
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0423/index.html

 Please join us now in helping with this historic mission! Read 
 the article online, and share your perspectives in our ongoing 
 conversation:
	http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20490

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Antarctic Ice Threatened by Ozone-Hole Recovery - Nature, 2008.0429
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080429/full/news.2008.787.html

Harlem's First Affordable Green Housing - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0429
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/29/david-and-joyce-dinkins-gardens/

Urban Planning Needs Green Rethink - BBC News, 2008.0429
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7372184.stm

Congress Delaying Energy, Housing Aids, Bush Says - NPR, 2008.0429
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90026893

For Houston Builders, Going 'Green' Won't Be Optional - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0428
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5737872.html

Russia Says Has No Plans to Cap Carbon Emissions - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0428
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7489862

Los Angeles Passes Ambitious Green Building Law - Habitat (blog), 2008.0428
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/28/green-building-reports-2008/

Housing Expert Sees Green Building as Growth Area - Washington Post, 2008.0425
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042502234.html

Plan to Reverse Global Warming Could Backfire - Reuters, 2008.0424
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2435161220080424

Method Homes Debuts Modern, Green Prefab Design - Jetson Green, 2008.0424
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2008/04/method-homes-in.html

UK's Iconic 1930s Semi-Detached House Goes Green - Science Daily, 2008.0424
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080422103930.htm

UK Butterflies 'Need Good Summer' - BBC News, 2008.0424
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7363411.stm

Hints of Methane's Renewed Rise - BBC News, 2008.0424
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7364679.stm

Sediment Cores Reveal Antarctica's Warmer Past - Nature, 2008.0423
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080424/full/453013a.html

Beetle Tree Kill Releases More Carbon Than Fires - Nature, 2008.0423
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080423/full/news.2008.771.html

Giant British Wind Farm Plans Blown Away - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.0422
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj8VUk1fytQxpSIvrB5GzZoNEMHw

Studies Confirm Significant Energy Savings in LEED, ENERGY STAR Buildings - Building Online, 2008.0411
http://www.buildingonline.com/news/viewnews.pl?id=6985&subcategory=208

People and Places, by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_2-1.html
	Ellerbe Becket in Lima, Ohio - PSA-Dewberry in Chicago, Illinois - 
	Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada - RTKL 
	Associates Inc. in Dallas, Texas - NBBJ in Seattle, Washington - 
	Snohetta in Oslo, Norway - Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build in Hemet,
	California - SmithGroup in Ann Arbor, Michigan - TPG Architecture in 
	New York, New York - HOK in Los Angeles, California - Diamond and 
	Schmitt Architects in Toronto, Canada - Foster + Partners with Gruen
	Associates in Camarillo, California - Spacesmith in New York, New York

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LEED "Innovation in Design" Credit Catalog from USGBC
	The U.S. Green Building Council issued this document about
	projects that have received points for "innovative
	performance." Currently, projects pursuing LEED
	Certification have the opportunity to earn up to four points
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Inside the Apple/PA Semi Deal: Micro and Macro Perspectives ― Seeking Alpha, 2008.0429
http://seekingalpha.com/article/74531-inside-the-apple-pa-semi-deal-micro-and-macro-perspectives

Stark Warning for Internet's Future -- BBC News, 2008.0424
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7364901.stm

Reducing the power electronics consume -- New York Times, 2008.0424
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue-email.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	True or false:
	A.	The pagoda and pailou (memorial arch) now
		associated with Chinese architecture were originally
		introduced to China from Japan.
	B.	The finest remaining examples of elegantly
		bracketed wood temples in the Tang style (China,
		618-907) are found outside of China.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	If you broke a sheet of tempered glass, you would have a
	pile of small pieces of relatively harmless glass.  What
	is the minimum number of pieces per square inch (or per
	square centimeter) of glass that you would expect to
	have?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/answer.html

Classic Home 027 - Colonial by by R. C. Hunter & Bro.

Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Stone facade ornaments (OM-053)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/contents.html

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