Green Wednesday 2008.0917

Wed Sep 17 17:54:51 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. 

Okay, your firm is talking about climate change and what it means to 
architecture and building.  So is your city, and maybe your state.  

Hopefully one or more of those has measured its current carbon footprint, 
and has gone on to set specific goals for greenhouse gas emissions, 
probably for 2020 and 2050.

Does your firm, or city, or state have a concrete plan in place yet 
to achieve its emissions targets?  A plan that states what needs to be 
done today, this week, this year?

	"As another report reveals the vanishing state of the Arctic
	ice, scientists have raised fears that the message about the
	urgent need to act on climate change is not getting through
	fast enough.

	"The director of WWF Scotland has said only nuclear war or an
	asteroid hitting Earth should be considered more of a crisis
	than climate change..."

Arctic Ice Could Be Thinnest Ever Amid Fears Climate Is 'Low Priority' - Scotsman Online, 2008.0916
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Arctic-ice-could-be-thinnest.4494049.jp

While business as usual trundles along... albeit slightly more slowly 
with a slowing global economy... we'll take the modest step of renewing 
our "Planet Partners - Build Only Green" climate action challenge.  

Please join the pledge to build to the Four Leaf Green Standard, and 
help create real change now: 

TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
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CLIMATE ACTION NOW 
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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Weather History Offers Insight into Global Warming - New York Times, 2008.0916
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/earth/16moho.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

GM Debuts the Chevy Volt - CNN, 2008.0916
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/11/autos/volt_official_reveal/index.htm?cnn=yes

Home, Green Home in Changsha, Hunan - RedNet, 2008.0916
http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/09/16/1593121.htm

Houses Made of Hemp Could Help Combat Climate Change - Innovations Report, 2008.0916
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/architektur_bauwesen/houses_made_hemp_combat_climate_change_118258.html

We Recycle Cans and Bottles, Why Not Buildings? - Seattle Times, 2008.0916
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008182437_peterop16.html

Seeking Synergy - Contract Magazine, 2008.0915
http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/design/features/corporate-design/e3i9e7f602573f2a544151805e92bf83d95?imw=Y

No Yards Needed in High-Rise Farms - Oregonian, 2008.0915
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/09/no_yards_needed_in_highrise_fa.html

Standards for Green Building Vary by Organization - Knox News, 2008.0915
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/sep/15/standards-green-building-vary-organization/

States Aim to Cut Gases by Making Polluters Pay - New York Times, 2008.0915
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/us/16carbon.html?scp=1&sq=Environment+climate+change&st=nyt

When Are Green Roofs Really Blue? - Green Roofs, 2008.0914
http://www.greenroofs.com/content/sustainable_editor002.htm

Wind-Power Politics - New York Times, 2008.0914
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/magazine/14wind-t.html

Structures That 'Fit with the Land' - Baltimore Sun, 2008.0914
http://www.baltimoresun.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/ideas/bal-id.garver14sep14,0,1773020.story

The Hi-Tech Green Home - Boston Globe, 2008.0914
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article4738481.ece

Expo, Dues, Not LEED Account for Nonprofit USGBC's Revenues - Maryland Daily Record, 2008.0913
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=148333&type=Daily

LEED's Building Standard Challenges All Who Use It - Maryland Daily Record, 2008.0912
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=8552&type=UTTM

Habitat for Humanity & Drury University LEED Platinum Home - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0912
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/12/drury-university-leed-habitat-home/

Buildings of Today Called Unsustainable - BC Local News, 2008.0911
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/28276334.html

Gravity-Mapping Satellite Will Help Predict Climate Change - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0911
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/11/scienceofclimatechange.gravitymapping

Green Building Rules Expected to Be Introduced in Abu Dhabi in January - Property Wire, 2008.0911
http://www.propertywire.com/news/middle-east/green-building-abu-dhabi-200809111618.html

EU Panel Lowers Biofuels Goal, Protects Industry - Reuters, 2008.0911
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSBRU00673820080911?sp=true

Bangladesh Launches Climate Change Action Plan - Nature, 2008.0911
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080911/full/news.2008.1103.html

Green Building Basics: Roofs and Water Management - Salem News, 2008.0910
http://www.salemnews.com/pulife/local_story_253222725.html?keyword=topstory

Call to Arms for an American-Led Green Revolution - New York Times, 2008.0910
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/books/10victor.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=Environment+climate+change&st=nyt&oref=slogin

The Orchard - Sustainable + Modern - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0910
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/greenbuilding/archives/147305.asp?from=blog_last3

Houses for Victorians - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0910/culture_1-1.html
	Underlying the almost infinite variety of Victorian
	houses were a few basic structural forms, repeated
	millions of times over by builders following well
	established principles...

Building Green Classrooms - BusinessWeek, 2008.0909
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/sep2008/bs2008099_035677.htm

Are Extruded Houses Green? - Green Building Elements, 2008.0905
http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/09/05/are-extruded-houses-green/

Limpopo-Lipadi Pioneers Green Construction Technique in Botswana - Easier Property, 2008.0905
http://www.easier.com/view/International_Property_News/General/article-201409.html

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
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	New York - BBG-BBGM in New York, New York - SHW Group
	in Brownsville, Texas - Ervin Lovett & Miller in
	Nocatee, Florida - HGA in Napa, California - HOK and
	Highland Associates in Scranton, Pennsylvania...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0910/news_1-1.html

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AMD Releases ATI FirePro V8700 - AMD Press Release, 2008.0911
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	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?
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