Green Wednesday 2008.1001

Thu Oct 2 07:54:37 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.

Percollation of understanding about the geography of VMT in America, 
and how crucial it is to reducing US greenhouse gas emissions, is a 
slow process.

These new sprawl-reduction incentives in California represent a very 
significant step toward where we need to go... immediately...

	California embarked Tuesday on a sweeping effort to curb
	suburban sprawl by rewarding communities that build homes
	and workplaces closer together to reduce pollution that
	contributes to global warming.

	However, a multibillion-dollar proposal to curb air
	pollution near the state's ports was rejected by Gov. Arnold
	Schwarzenegger, who concluded that the related cargo fees
	would harm an already suffering economy.

	The state's water crisis also attracted his attention
	Tuesday as he approved $842 million to boost the water
	supply and bolster endangered levees.

	The three environment-related measures were in the spotlight
	as Schwarzenegger finished work on this year's legislation
	before a midnight deadline...

	He won some praise for signing landmark legislation to
	control the state's global-warming emissions by discouraging
	sprawl with the nation's first law using government
	incentives to link transportation funding with climate
	policy.

Governor Kills Port Smog-Fighting Bill, Signs into Law Sprawl and Water Supply Measures 
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bills1-2008oct01,0,6985795.story?track=rss

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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A Question of Balance - Nature, 2008.1002
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/full/455565a.html

Postcard from a Tipping Planet - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/environment_1-1.html
	Please take a moment to look at this great short animation
	from Leo Murray. Just click to play. It starts out with a
	polar bear floating on a chunk of ice, playing a violin.
	Then the narrator hops out and grabs the violin, saying
	"Give me that. This really isn't about polar bears anymore!"

NASCAR, Meet the Electric Chevy Volt - CNN, 2008.1001
http://us.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/10/01/volt.car.nascar/index.html

Credit Crunch Threatens US Wind-Energy Projects - Nature, 2008.1001
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081001/full/455572b.html

Great River Energy Headquarters Awarded Platinum LEED Certification - Great River Energy Press Release, 2008.1001
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreover/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081001005065&newsLang=en

Hybrids Trick Out, Plug In - CNN, 2008.0930
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/30/hybrid.electric.conversion/index.html

Invisibly Emptied Oceans - New York Times, 2008.0930
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/emptied-oceans/

Doug Farr, Sustainable Urbanism Superstar - Model D, 2008.0930
http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/farr16208.aspx

Your Home's Shade of Green - Gazette, 2008.0930
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=fa5e29fb-0dbc-4bcd-bfe0-7ec137903846

Harsh Review of Restoration in Everglades - New York Times, 2008.0930
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/30everglades.html

Lawmakers at Impasse on Incentives for Renewable Energy - New York Times, 2008.0930
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/washington/30energy.html

Living Walls, Smart Homes at West Coast Green - CNet News, 2008.0930
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11392_3-6246820-1.html

Princeton's Newest Building a Study in Light - News at Princeton, 2008.0929
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/24/62A66/index.xml?section=featured

Belgium Buys Hungarian Greenhouse Emissions Rights - Reuters, 2008.0929
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE48S5JB20080929?sp=true

Amazon Forest Destruction Speeding Up, Officials Say - CNN, 2008.0929
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html

Leatherback Turtles Return to Coast - KVTU, 2008.0929
http://www.ktvu.com/news/17581960/detail.html

The King of Green Architecture - Discover, 2008.0928
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/28-king-of-green-architecture

Riverdale Duplex Relies on Solar Energy for Heat, Hot Water and Electricity - Edmonton Journal, 2008.0928
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=74137e43-7ebc-4d5f-8908-e486090985a9

Eco Town Dwellers May Be Monitored for Green Habits - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0926
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/26/ecotowns.ethicalliving

The $10 Million Light Bulb - New York Times, 2008.0926
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/the-10-million-light-bulb/

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Up Despite Economic Downturn - Scientific American, 2008.0926
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=greenhouse-gas-pollution-up-despite-2008-09-26

CO2 Flow Speeds Up; Poor Countries Now Lead - New York Times, 2008.0926
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/global-warming/

Designing Fabric Structures - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/index.html
	The first step in designing a fabric structure is to create
	a form with sufficient pre-stress, or tension, to prevent it
	from fluttering like a flag or sail. Lightweight structures
	with minimal surfaces optimally should have double curvature
	― a surface that possesses a high-point (positive) curvature
	along one principal axis and a low-point (negative)
	curvature along the other principal axis.

Green Building Award Winners Named - New York Times, 2008.0924
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/green-building-award-winners-named/

Shower Design for Aging in Place - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html
	Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have
	designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances
	that require users to pick up their feet and step over
	and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the
	shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom.

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
	Thornton Tomasetti in Chicago, Illinois - Leo A Daly in
	Los Angeles, California - KMD Architects in Winchester,
	Virginia - Creative Resource Associates and Group 70
	International in Honolulu, Hawaii - Foster + Partners
	in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Hardy McCullah/ MLM
	Architects in Fort Worth, Texas - Stephen A. Kliment in
	Ebersberg, Germany - Perkins + Will in Los Angeles,
	California...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0924/news_1-1.html

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	 http://www.archweek.com/2008/0924/products_update.html

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Mac OS X Market Share Cracks 8% - Computer World, 2008.1001
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I.B.M. Puts iPhone in the Lotus Position - New York Times, 2008.0930
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/embargo-lifts-at-1201-am-est-930-ibm-puts-iphone-into-the-lotus-position/

Batteries Near Dead, Transmeta Is Up for Sale - New York Times, 2008.0925
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/one-time-chip-darling-transmeta-goes-up-for-sale/

Running Servers in a Tent Outside: It Works - Computer World, 2008.0925
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