Green Wednesday 2008.0604

Thu Jun 5 18:11:52 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. 

The U.S. space science agency finds itself guilty of suppressing legitimate 
scientific climate findings...

	The report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector
	general for investigations, criticized what it said was a
	sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by
	senior political appointees, that included muting or
	withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in
	Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with
	reporters.

	"Our investigation," the report said, "found that during the
	fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA Headquarters
	Office of Public Affairs managed the topic of climate change
	in a manner that reduced, marginalized or mischaracterized
	climate change science made available to the general
	public."

	The report said most evidence supported contentions that
	politics was "inextricably interwoven" into operations at
	the public affairs office in that period and that the
	pattern was inconsistent with the statutory responsibility
	to communicate findings widely, "especially on a topic that
	has worldwide scientific interest."

NASA Office Is Criticized on Climate Reports - New York Times, 2008.0603
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/earth/03nasa.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Climate Crisis Puts Pressure on Designers - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2008.0604
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/06/04/Climate-crisis-puts-pressure-on-designers-Aggressiveness-such-as-aiming-for-regenerative-buildings-i

The "Local Water" Movement Arrives - Urbanite, 2008.0604
http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=61&sectionID=4&articleID=954

Environmental Nature Center Opens in Newport Beach - ENC Press Release, 2008.0604
http://www.prweb.com/releases/LPA/ENC/prweb995554.htm

Lighting an Efficient Future, Minus the Mercury - World Changing (blog), 2008.0603
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008081.html

Wildflower Center to Be Honored for Work on Green Landscapes - University of Texas News, 2008.0603
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/06/03/wildflower_landscapes/

Natural Solutions Being Ignored - H&V News, 2008.0603
http://www.hvnplus.co.uk/page.cfm/action=Archive/ArchiveID=2/EntryID=492

The Urban Quarry - Hub, 2008.0602
http://www.hub-4.com/news/1166/the-urban-quarry

DOE Announces Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize Competition - Department of Energy Press Release, 2008.0602
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Breaking_News/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000350975

As LEED Grows, so Does U.S. Green Building Council - CoStar Group, 2008.0602
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=9C70110B5DCAB922A6397BD2EE7A481E

USGBC to Outsource LEED Certification - Building Green, 2008.0601
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm/2008/5/29/USGBC-to-Outsource-LEED-Certification/

Built to Last: Construction Methods Are Changing so That Our Homes Wona[euro](TM)T Cost the Earth - Independent Digital, 2008.0531
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/built-to-last-construction-methods-are-changing-so-that-our-homes-wonrsquot-cost-the-earth-839864.html

Updating LEED - QSR, 2008.0530
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/exclusives/0508/leed-1.phtml

Off the Grid, but Plugged In - New York Times, 2008.0530
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/greathomesanddestinations/30your.html?scp=2&sq=green+building&st=nyt

Competition to Find New Green Building Materials - Green Building, 2008.0529
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=2487

San Francisco AIA Awards 2008 - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0528
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0528/news_1-1.html
	...Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica firm,
	Morphosis, received one of four honor awards for excellence
	in architecture. Morphosis shared the award for the San
	Francisco Federal Building with the local office of
	SmithGroup. With its raft of "green" features, it seems the
	Mayne-designed structure could also have won in AIA SF's
	sustainability category.

Bay Area Green Bluilding Law Will Slow Economy, City Agency Says - CoStar Group, 2008.0528
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=DB590E69152202C027F729695F71F0CE

Solar Incentives Threaten Local Ownership - Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2008.0528
http://www.ilsr.org/columns/2008/052808.html

Critics Say New Green Rating Hurts Affordable Housing - Michigan Live, 2008.0526
http://www.mlive.com/business/ambizdaily/bizjournals/index.ssf?/base/abd-4/1211870403161400.xml

Restoration Innovation and Integration - EDC, 2008.0522
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000342285

Renovating for the Future - EDC, 2008.0522
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000342194

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0528/news_2-1.html
	Shah Kawasaki Architects in Oakland, California - Eckols &
	Associates in Austin, Texas - Nicholas Hare Architects in
	Strasbourg, France - Rafael Vinoly Architects in San
	Francisco, California - Cannon Design in Richmond, Canada -
	NBBJ in Gilbert, Arizona...
	... short stories continue online:

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Nemetschek NA Releases VectorWorks 2008 SP3 - TenLinks, 2008.0604
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New Executives Join Z Corporation - Z Corporation Press Release, 2008.0529
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This Week's Quiz -	
	A cyclorama is a large, curved, seamless, white or pale
	blue backdrop used in theater design to represent the
	sky or to provide a surface on which abstract colors and
	patterns can be projected from stage lighting fixtures.
	Cycloramas are typically made from either cloth or
	plaster. Which of these materials is usually better for
	this application?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0528/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	What building type would you be designing if you were
	considering these three types of single-threaded helix
	combinations: "four-bay, side-by-side," "end-to-end,"
	and "camelback"?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0528/answer.html

Classic Home 029 - Craftsman bungalow by Frederick L. Ackerman
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0528/classic_home.html

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     Mosaic of colored paving tiles (FP-104)
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