Green Wednesday 2008.0903
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed Sep 3 21:15:08 PDT 2008
Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,
Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly
green design and building news from around our planet.
"A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998 'hockey
stick' graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly correct."
Critics of the idea of man-made climate change argue that
conditions 1,000 years ago were as warm as, if not warmer
than, they are today.
The new paper adds to the evidence against that notion. One
of the analytical methods used suggests that temperatures in
the Mediaeval Warm Period could have been no higher than
they were in about 1980; the other suggests they were no
higher than those seen 100 years ago.
Climate 'Hockey Stick' Is Revived - BBC News, 2008.0901
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7592575.stm
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Cabe Slams Schemes by Eco-Towns Architect - BD, 2008.0902
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=725&storycode=3121465&c=1&encCode=000000000180585e
Environment Needs Dose of Bold Reform - BBC News, 2008.0902
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7592899.stm
Houston, New York Has a Problem - City Journal, 2008.0902
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_houston.html
Extreme and Risky Action the Only Way to Tackle Global Warming, Say Scientists - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0901
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/01/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange2
World's Glaciers Facing Huge Threat: UN - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.0901
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hoVpy7IM40pzgO5WZlKu2bwRT7bw
Hurricanes, Floods Show Risks of Climate Change: UN - Reuters, 2008.0901
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL155749220080901
A Builder's 360 Degree Vision Didn't Move His Neighbors - New York Times, 2008.0901
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/world/europe/02belgium.html?scp=6&sq=green+building&st=nyt
Hurricane Gustav Barrels Ashore - Nature, 2008.0901
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080901/full/news.2008.1075.html
Hurricane Gustav: Fuzzy Science Confounds Predictions - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0901
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/01/gustav.weather
Looking for Salvage in the Rubble of an Old Firehouse - New York Times, 2008.0831
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31firehousewe.html?scp=3&sq=green+building&st=nyt
Simple & Green - Windsor Star, 2008.0830
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/gardening/story.html?id=2039bec3-7583-47c2-9a38-9f6100503e51
Sustainable Housing Trilogy - The Daily Star, 2008.0830
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=52395
DePauw University's Institute of Ethics - EDC, 2008.0829
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000409890
70N Arkitektur's Mobile XBO Prefab - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0829
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/29/xbo-mobile-prefab-by-70n-arkitektur/
1960's Meets Sustainable Modern: The Choy Residence - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0829
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/29/terry-and-terry-architecture-choy-residence/
California Moves on Bill to Curb Sprawl and Emissions - New York Times, 2008.0829
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/us/29sprawl.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Green Is Good - Telecoms, 2008.0828
http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/features/articles/20017565868.html
Green Roofs Offer More Than Color for the Skyline - New York Times, 2008.0828
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/nyregion/28roof.html?scp=7&sq=green+building&st=nyt
Yale University Sculpture Building and Parking Garage - EDC, 2008.0828
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000409408
Powering Up - New York Times, 2008.0828
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/greathomesanddestinations/29grid.html?scp=2&sq=green+building&st=nyt
'Zero-Energy' Pilot Homes Planned at Fort Campbell - Boston Globe, 2008.0827
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/08/27/zero_energy_pilot_homes_planned_at_fort_campbell_1219842402/
Air Storage Is Explored for Energy - New York Times, 2008.0826
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26wind.html
The Surprising Way Wind Turbines Kill Bats - Scientific American, 2008.0826
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=wind-turbines-kill-bats&sc=rss
People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
Kohn Pedersen Fox in Shanghai, China - RTKL in Chicago,
Illinois - Holzman Moss Architecture with STV in West
Point, New York - Leo A Daly in Burbank, California -
Pickard Chilton in Chicago, Illinois...
... short stories continue online:
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0827/news_2-1.html
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Open Source: What You Should Learn from the French - InfoWorld, 2008.0828
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This Week's Quiz -
Match each energy type with its geologic origins:
1. Natural Gas
2. Oil
3. Coal
A. Formed from organic remains of algae that thrived in
the oceans during two warm periods 90 million and 150
million years ago.
B. Also from buried remains of ancient organisms, but
unlike "A" above, comes from plants and animals that
decomposed at higher temperatures deeper
underground.
C. Warm, wet climates 360 million to 300 million years
ago gave rise to an explosive growth of swamp plants
that were eventually buried, subjected to high
temperatures and transformed into this energy source.
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How much did Henry David Thoreau spend building his
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