ArchWeek Green 2009.0115

Thu Jan 15 17:43:05 PST 2009

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

ArchWeek Green, from the editors of the leading architecture magazine 
online, brings you weekly sustainable design and building news from 
around our planet.

In ArchitectureWeek No. 410, Daniel K. Slone takes on some pivotal 
issues in how to make urbanism and sustainability work together - 
which is far from automatic...

	There are numerous benefits to fusing sustainable
	development and urban development concepts. Moreover,
	pedestrian-oriented, urbanist-project approaches have been
	vigorously embraced by many environmental groups. It is not,
	however, intuitively obvious to everyone why high-density,
	extensively hardscaped projects would be good for the
	environment.

	First, there are some adverse consequences that do accrue if
	density is merely clustered without appropriate design.
	Aggregate air and water (surface and groundwater) impacts
	may be more significant and harmful than smaller, dispersed
	impacts that are more easily diluted and absorbed.

	Second, numerous projects are advanced as urbanist projects
	despite the fact that they do not meet the basic criteria
	for urbanist projects. Often the ways these projects have
	been diluted or hybridized means that they cannot deliver
	the hoped-for benefits of urbanism, including the
	environmental benefits. In some instances, projects
	pretending to be New Urbanism have been simply a pretty way
	to sprawl or to deliver density without parks or connected
	streets, and are designed in such a way that few social or
	environmental benefits occur.

	Even when the principles of urbanism are appropriately
	applied, the project falls short if it is missing elements
	of sustainability. Although the environmental benefits of
	locating in an urban neighborhood, particularly one with
	transit opportunities, are significant and certainly exceed
	the environmental benefits obtained in sprawl, this in and
	of itself is not adequate.

Bringing Sustainability and Urbanism Together, by Daniel K. Slone 
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0107/environment_1-1.html

Discuss online:
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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Coal Industry Digs Itself Out of a Hole in the Capitol - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0115
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123198153797183981.html

Light Bulbs: Which Do You Use? - New York Times, 2009.0115
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/light-bulbs-which-do-you-use/

E.P.A. Pick Vows to Put Science First - New York Times, 2009.0115
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/us/politics/15webjackson.html?_r=1&ref=earth

High Speed Rail Line to Sweeten Heathrow Runway Deal - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0115
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/15/heathrow-third-runway

Halt All Carbon Emissions by 2050: Worldwatch - Reuters, 2009.0114
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50C7LS20090114

On the Heels of a Bulb Ban, Europe Mulls Pulling the Plug on Large Plasma TVs - New York Times, 2009.0114
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/on-the-heels-of-a-bulb-ban-europe-mulls-pulling-the-plug-on-large-plasma-tvs/

A Bicycle Evangelist with the Wind Now at His Back - New York Times, 2009.0113
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/earth/13profile.html

Google Disputes Harvard Fellow's Pollution Estimate - PC World, 2009.0112
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156893/google_disputes_harvard_fellows_pollution_estimate.html

Climate Change Fight "Could Beat Downturn" - Wales Online, 2009.0112
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/01/12/climate-change-fight-could-beat-downturn-91466-22670779/

Technology Levels Playing Field in Race to Market Electric Car - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0112
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172034731572313.html

Bush Zeroed in on Energy Like Few Other Presidents - Houston Chronicle, 2009.0112
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6207727.html

Northwest Researchers Say 'Dirty Snow Effect' Magnifies Early Snowmelt - Oregonian, 2009.0111
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/northwest_researchers_say_dirt.html

Guerrilla Tactics at Oil-Lease Auction - Washington Post, 2009.0111
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/11/AR2009011102265.html

Real Estate Investors Benefit from Green Building Momentum - Triple Pundit, 2009.0108
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/real-estate-investors-benefit-from-green.php

ExxonMobil CEO Urges CO2 Tax, Not Cap-and-Trade Law - CNN, 2009.0108
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200901081511DOWJONESDJONLINE000878_FORTUNE5.htm

WWF Turns Against Natural Gas Amid Russia-Ukraine Crisis - New York Times, 2009.0107
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/wwf-turns-against-natural-gas-amid-russia-ukraine-crisis/

11 States Agree to Work Together to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicle Fuels - State of Massachusetts Press Release, 2009.0105
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eoeeapressrelease&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Eoeea&b=pressrelease&f=090105_pr_lcfs&csid=Eoeea

A Record Year - Nature, 2008.1230
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0901/full/climate.2008.143.html

People and Places, by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0107/news_1-1.html
	IA Interior Architects in San Francisco, California -
	RTKL in Joliet, Illinois - Cannon Design in San
	Francisco, California - Gensler in Santa Monica,
	California - EHDD in Seaside, California - EwingCole
	in Camden, New Jersey...

Press Release - Mannington Commercial Seeking Future Design Talent
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Apple's Chief Takes a Medical Leave - New York Times, 2009.0114
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Hollywood Finds Headaches in Its Big Bet on 3-D - New York Times, 2009.0112
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A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows - New York Times, 2009.0111
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Pushing Estimating Further - Construction Tech, 2009.0108
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