Green Wednesday 2008.0528
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed May 28 17:41:55 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.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City spoke on Wednesday about
climate change. He drew interesting parallels to the tragically slow
but ultimately great benefits of responding to science in an earlier
anthropogenic toxic crisis:
We're in another deadly global race too - one against global
climate change. As with tobacco use, the science here is now
incontrovertible. To manage New York City's impact on global
warming, first we had to measure it. So two years ago, we
decided to do what no one had ever done before: measure the
size of New York City's carbon footprint. We learned that we
produce some 58 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every
year and that this carbon footprint was growing. In fact, it
was on course to increase by some 27 percent by the year
2030. But we didn't just find out the size of our problem,
we also learned how to attack it.
I believe strongly in leading by example. That's why last
October, I signed an Executive Order directing City agencies
to shrink City government's carbon footprint by 30 percent
by the year 2017 and to start acting now. To do that, we're
committing 10 percent of our annual energy costs - equal to
roughly $80 million a year - to reducing City agency
production of heat-trapping gases. We've taken major steps
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from autos; the world's
largest yellow cab fleet is slated to go green by converting
to hybrid or hybrid-equivalent power by the year 2012. We've
focused on replacing old and heavily polluting power plants
with newer, more efficient generators. We've taken steps to
put New York in the lead in energy-efficient power
co-generation. And we're on course to more than double
production and use of solar power in New York City by this
time next year.
The Tragic Lag Between What We Know and What We Do - Dot Earth blog, 2008.0520
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/the-tragic-lag-between-what-we-know-and-what-we-do/
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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New Climate Report Foresees Big Changes - New York Times, 2008.0528
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/science/earth/28climate.html?ref=science
Climate Anomaly Is an Artefact - Nature, 2008.0528
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080528/full/453569a.html
San Francisco's Transbay Terminal Gets the Green Light - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0528
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/28/san-francisco-transbay-transit-center/
Ambitious Design to Rival Eiffel for Parisian Skyline - Scotsman Online, 2008.0528
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ambitious-design-to-rival-Eiffel.4124807.jp
Montana Dam Is Breached, Slowly, to Restore a Superfund Site - New York Times, 2008.0527
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27dam.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Apple Files Solar Patent - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0527
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/27/apple-files-solar-patent-ipod-going-solar/
Green Buyers Find Prefab Fabulous - Denver Post, 2008.0527
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9365484
Ronald McDonald House Awarded Platinum LEED Certification - Austin Business Journal, 2008.0527
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/05/26/daily8.html
Calgary's New Green Skyscraper by Foster + Partners - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0526
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/26/calgarys-new-green-skyscraper-by-foster-partners/
Rammed Earth Homebuilding - Mother Earth News, 2008.0525
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes/1996-04-01/Clay-Wall-Home.aspx
Green Is Golden - San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0524
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/24/REQ710LPUF.DTL
Land Use Plan on Solid Ground - Calgary Herald, 2008.0523
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=7ac97609-8d2c-415c-b8e2-bf622fb8eb8d
Hybrid Honda Fit Is Sound Marketing Play - BusinessWeek, 2008.0522
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2008/05/hybrid_honda_fi.html
Rogers: Eco Towns Not Sustainable - Building (UK), 2008.0522
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3114269&c=0
Johnson & Johnson's Big Design Challenge - BusinessWeek, 2008.0521
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2008/id20080521_194730.htm
Appalachian Suncatcher - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0521
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0521/index.html
Nestled into a hillside near Asheville, North Carolina,
the Blue Ridge Parkway Destination Center is projected
to use 75 percent less energy than a comparable
conventionally designed facility.
Fewer Cars on Japan's Roads - BusinessWeek, 2008.0516
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2008/05/fewer_cars_on_j.html
Shrinking Carbon's Muddy Footprint - Portland Tribune, 2008.0515
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=121078397400772300
The Heated Rivalry in Low-Carbon Cars - BusinessWeek, 2008.0515
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_21/b4085040673261.htm
GM: Live Green or Die - BusinessWeek, 2008.0515
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_21/b4085036665789.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories
People and Places
Studio A in Charleston, South Carolina - Meis
Architects and Aedas in Culver City, California - James
McCullar & Associates in New York, New York - ZAS
Architects in Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Erick van
Egeraat Associated Architects in Roskilde, Denmark -
Omniplan in Dallas, Texas...
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Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office - New York Times, 2008.0522
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/technology/22format.html?_r=2&partner=MOREOVERNEWS&ei=5040&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
3D Systems Elects Karen E. Welke to Board of Directors - 3D Systems Press Release, 2008.0520
http://www.3dsystems.com/newsevents/newsreleases/pr-May_20_2008b.asp
Creaform Redesigns REVscan 3D Laser Scanner - Creaform Press Release, 2008.0520
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Siemens Launches Velocity Series Portfolio - TenLinks, 2008.0520
http://www.tenlinks.com/news/PR/siemens_plm/052008_velocity_series.htm
Autodesk's Profit Rises 14 Percent in Fiscal 1Q - Yahoo News, 2008.0515
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080515/earns_autodesk.html?.v=1
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