Green Wednesday 2008.0910
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Sep 11 08:17:59 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.
New research published in Nature reinforces the emerging rule of thumb :
Disturbing intact natural ecosystems tends to their increase net carbon
emissions. This has been shown in grasslands, and even deserts, as well
as old and ancient forests, where the findings are now strongly
reinforced...
Old forests continue to accumulate carbon at a much greater
rate than researchers had previously thought, making them
more important as carbon sinks that must be factored into
global climate models, researchers say.
Until recently, it was assumed that very old forests no
longer absorbed carbon. The only new growth occurred in the
small spaces that opened up when large old trees died and
decomposed, releasing their accumulated carbon. The forests
at large were therefore considered to be carbon neutral, and
accounted as such in climate models.
...Indeed, the heartwarmingly green action of planting a tree
may actually be second-best to keeping an old tree from the
axe: "probably for a couple hundred years, until the young
one got big enough to have the same amount of carbon as one
of these old trees," estimates Ustin.
Old Forests Capture Plenty of Carbon - Nature, 2008.0910
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1092.html
This is the actual research paper behind that article (Nature
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Old-growth Forests as Global Carbon Sinks - Nature, 2008.0911
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7210/full/nature07276.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Turning Blight into Bloom - Nature editorial, 2008.0911
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7210/full/455137a.html
As we become an ever more urban species, cities will be a
crucial front in the fight against climate change. Scientists,
architects and planners must join forces to make our
metropolitan future clean and sustainable.
Not Easy Being Green in Housing - Brisbane Times, 2008.0910
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/life-and-style/not-easy-being-green-in-housing/2008/09/10/1220857606742.html
Green Building Migrates Toward Mandatory as Governments Embrace LEED - Journal Record, 2008.0910
http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recid=92009
Europe's Energy Funding 'Unbalanced' - Nature, 2008.0910
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1099.html
Green Bricks in a Grey Wall - CIOL, 2008.0910
http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Reports/Green-bricks-in-a-grey-wall/10908110161/0/
Building Raises the Bar for Green - Portland Press Herald, 2008.0909
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=209134&ac=PHbiz
Building Green Classrooms - BusinessWeek, 2008.0909
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/sep2008/bs2008099_035677.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_business+schools
Thaw of Polar Regions May Need New U.N. Laws - Reuters, 2008.0907
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL747871420080907
Vanishing Barns Signal a Changing Iowa - New York Times, 2008.0907
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/us/07iowa.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=green+building&st=nyt&oref=slogin
The Bad News about Green Architecture - NewsWeek, 2008.0906
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157576
All Fired Up - Nature, 2008.0905
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080905/full/news.2008.1086.html
University of California, San Diego Forests Parking Areas with Solar Trees(TM) from Envision Solar - AEC Cafe, 2008.0904
http://www10.aeccafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=584498
(Re)Building a Better Town - Popular Science, 2008.0903
http://www.popsci.com/annemarie-conte-and-esther-haynes/article/2008-09/rebuilding-better-town
Hurricanes Are Getting Fiercer - Nature, 2008.0903
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080903/full/news.2008.1079.html
The $99,000 Question - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0902
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5979921.html
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
A Battle about a Bridge Is a Battle over Suburbia - New York Times, 2008.0829
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/31colwe.html?scp=7&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt
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/
70 degree N Arkitektur's Mobile XBO Prefab - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0829
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/29/xbo-mobile-prefab-by-70n-arkitektur/
DePauw University's Institute of Ethics - EDC, 2008.0829
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000409890
People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
IA Interior Architects in Boston, Massachusetts - RTKL
in Johannesburg, South Africa - IPD in El Cajon,
California - SMWM in San Francisco, California -
Hurricane Gustav in Cocodrie, Louisiana - Moshe Safdie
and Associates in Washington, D.C., USA...
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Researcher: Chrome's Isolated Tabs Make It Memory 'Pig' - Computer World, 2008.0903
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Google Releases Chrome Browser Beta - Internet News, 2008.0902
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Geomagic Gets NSF Grant for Phase IIB Project - TenLinks, 2008.0902
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BIM and Green Building Studio - Cadalyst, 2008.0828
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This Week's Quiz -
In 1830 the initial grid was laid out for the town of
Chicago, Illinois, and by 1833 there were 200 houses.
The population continued to expand and the city was
mostly built of wood-framed buildings until the Great
Fire of 1871 gutted Chicago's core. There were 300,000
people living in Chicago at the time of the fire.
The rebuilding of Chicago drove a boom and the
population exploded to two million by 1900. This growth
created pressure for a taller, denser city. What two
inventions in 1850 and 1867 allowed for this upward growth?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0903/quiz.html
Architecture Answer - for last issue'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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