Green Wednesday 2008.1008

Wed Oct 8 18:15:49 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.

How could we _not_ green the bailout, one wonders rhetorically?

	"I cannot help but ponder about how quickly we are ready to
	act on fixing the transmission, by pumping in almost one
	trillion dollars in a fortnight," said Sridhar. "On the
	other hand, the engine, which is slowly dying, is not even
	getting an oil change or a tuneup with the same urgency, let
	alone a trillion dollars to get ourselves a new engine. 

	"Just imagine what a trillion-dollar investment would return 
	to the economy, including the 'transmission,' if we committed
	at that level to green jobs and technologies."

	Indeed, when this bailout is over, we need the next
	president - this one is wasted - to launch an E.T., energy
	technology, revolution with the same urgency as this
	bailout. Otherwise, all we will have done is bought
	ourselves a respite, but not a future. The exciting thing
	about the energy technology revolution is that it spans the
	whole economy - from green-collar construction jobs to
	high-tech solar panel designing jobs. It could lift so many
	boats.

	In a green economy, we would rely less on credit from
	foreigners "and more on creativity from Americans," argued
	Van Jones, president of Green for All, and author of the
	forthcoming "The Green Collar Economy." "It's time to stop
	borrowing and start building. America's No. 1 resource is
	not oil or mortgages. Our No. 1 resource is our people.

Green the Bailout - New York Times - Opinion - 2008.0928
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28friedman.html

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Vapour Spies to Reveal Climate Clues - Nature, 2008.1008
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081008/full/455714a.html

European Legislators Back Emissions Rules - New York Times, 2008.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/business/worldbusiness/08emit.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin

A New Flexibility with Thin Solar Cells - New York Times, 2008.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07obsola.html?ref=environment

A Gift from the '70s: Energy Lessons - New York Times, 2008.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07tier.html?ref=environment

Turning Roofs into Roads - Reed Construction Data, 2008.1006
http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6601378.html?industryid=48567

Catching Some Rays in Greater Numbers - New York Times, 2008.1005
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/nyregion/long-island/05solarli.html?ref=environment

Seas Turn to Acid as They Soak Up CO2 - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/05/climatechange.italy

Rethinking Home Design for Sustainability - National Post, 2008.1004
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/homes/story.html?id=859728

Results from National Survey on Sustainable Practices at Home, Yard - ASLA Press Release, 2008.1004
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/many-save-utility-bills-indoors/story.aspx?guid={DD8F40B5-2EE9-4CEA-B889-147E27EC07A3}&dist=hppr

New Jersey Grants Rights to Build a Wind Farm about 20 Miles Offshore - New York Times, 2008.1004
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/nyregion/04wind.html

Eco-Friendly Cars Take Back Seat to Survival of Automakers - Bloomberg, 2008.1003
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aFwdsCD2R8mE&refer=europe

Lucasfilm's Letterman Digital Arts Center Achieves LEED Gold - AIArchitect, 2008.1003
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/1003/1003d_lucas.cfm

First US Cap-and-Trade Greenhouse Gas Auction - Science Friday, 2008.1003
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810033

Nuclear Energy: Falling Out of Favour? - Nature, 2008.1003
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/nuclear_energy_falling_out_of.html

Six EU States Ready to Block Climate Plan: Poland - Reuters, 2008.1003
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4922NT20081003

Biden, Palin, CO2 Caps, ‘Clean Coal’ - New York Times, 2008.1003
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/biden-palen-co2-caps-clean-coal/

Toyota Cuts Temporary Jobs in Japan as Sales Decline in U.S. - Bloomberg, 2008.1003
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=ac6XzrVUD4c8&refer=japan

Dedicated Hybrids Shape New Honda Strategy - New York Times, 2008.1002
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/dedicated-hybrids-shape-new-honda-strategy/

The Challenge of Sustainable Hospital Building - redOrbit, 2008.1002
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1575210/the_challenge_of_sustainable_hospital_building/

$1 Billion Plug-in Tax Credit in Bailout Bill - Detroit News, 2008.1001
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/AUTO01/810010432/1148

Gas Shortages Plague the Southeast - BusinessWeek, 2008.1001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2008/db20080930_597303.htm?chan=rss_topEmailedStories_ssi_5

Introducing the Green Hospital Room - The Globe and Mail, 2008.0930
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080930.LGREEN30//TPStory

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

Open Energy Corporation's SolarSave Architectural PV Glass Used in California Academy Building - Open Energy Corporation Press Release, 2008.0925
http://www.electricnet.com/article.mvc/Open-Energy-Corporations-SolarSave-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO

Designing Fabric Structures - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0924/design_1-1.html

Postcard from a Tipping Planet - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0924/environment_1-1.html

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
	Perkins + Will in Maple Grove, Minnesota - Stanton
	Williams in Berlin, Germany - HMS Architects in Baton
	Rouge, Louisiana - Highland Associates in New York, New
	York - John Ochsendorf in Chicago, Illinois - S333
	Architecture + Urbanism in Plymouth, England, United
	Kingdom - Race Cottam in London, England, United
	Kingdom - Ofis Arhitekti in Nova Gorica, Slovenia -
	Cope Linder Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
	Douglas Fredrikson Architects in Indian Wells,
	California - Ellerbe Becket in Providence, Rhode Island
	- HOK and Studio JTA in New York, New York - Parallax
	Associates in Chatsworth, California...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/1001/news_2-1.html

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BIMStorm Settles over Alexandria, Va. - AIArchitect, 2008.1003
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Oracle Buys Advanced Visual Technology - Computer World, 2008.1001
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Autodesk Releases Revit for 64-Bit Windows Systems - Autodesk Press Release, 2008.0930
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