ArchWeek Green 2009.0212

Thu Feb 12 11:37:07 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.

Whatever small little pleasure might be found these days in having 
predicted the obvious is swamped, entirely and beyond, by the human 
and environmental tragedies accumulating around the planet.

	Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take
	a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai's fast-growing
	economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a
	15-year mortgage...

	Now, like many of the foreign workers who make up 90 percent of
	the population here, she has been laid off and faces the
	prospect of being forced to leave this Persian Gulf city - or
	worse.

	"I'm really scared of what could happen, because I bought
	property here," said Sofia, who asked that her last name be
	withheld because she is still hunting for a new job. "If I can't
	pay it off, I was told I could end up in debtors' prison."

	With Dubai's economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that
	more than 3,000 cars sit abandoned in the parking lot at the
	Dubai Airport, left by fleeing, debt-ridden foreigners (who
	could in fact be imprisoned if they failed to pay their bills).
	Some are said to have maxed-out credit cards inside and notes of
	apology taped to the windshield.

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down - New York Times, 2009.0211
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/world/middleeast/12dubai.html

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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Here Comes the Sun Shower - New York Times, 2009.0210
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10hunter.html

Fires, Floods Pressure Australia Government on Climate - Reuters, 2009.0209
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5180MF20090209

Google Taking a Step into Power Metering - New York Times, 2009.0209
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/technology/companies/10grid.html

Feed-in Tariffs Contemplated in the U.S. - New York Times, 2009.0209
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/feed-in-tariffs-contemplated-in-the-us/

Australian Bushfires Rage - Nature, 2009.0209
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090209/full/news.2009.89.html

FEMA Is Faulted on Aid after Hurricane Ike - New York Times, 2009.0209
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/us/09hurricane.html?ref=earth

New Sausalito Homes - Green and Good Neighbors - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0207
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/07/REUP15HJJ8.DTL

Why Obama's Energy Savings Estimate May Be Skewed - New York Times, 2009.0207
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/washington/07energy.html

Carbon Catalyst Could Herald Cut-Price Fuel Cells - New Scientist, 2009.0206
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16547-carbon-catalyst-could-herald-cutprice-fuel-cells.html

Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable - New Scientist, 2009.0206
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16550-why-sustainable-power-is-unsustainable.html

US Regulators Vote to Ban Commercial Fishing in Arctic Waters - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0206
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/06/alaska-arctic-commerical-fishing-bering

A Solar Company Loses Power, Gains Steam - New York Times, 2009.0206
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/a-solar-company-loses-power-gains-steam/

Showcase Home Is 'Test Kitchen' for Building Technology - GlobeSt, 2009.0204
http://www.globest.com/news/1337_1337/insider/176709-1.html

Greenbuild in Boston - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0204
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0204/environment_1-1.html
	Attendees of the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and
	Expo had good reason to be excited. Since the conference's debut
	in 2002 in Austin, Texas, when just over 4,000 people gathered
	to discuss the importance of sustainable design, Greenbuild has
	expanded dramatically.

USGBC Highlights the Potential for Greening Existing Buildings in Proposed Stimulus - Greener Buildings, 2009.0202
http://greenerbuildings.com/news/2009/02/02/usgbc-stimulus

Integrate Food Production and Green Building - , 2009.0130
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm/2009/1/30/Integrate-Food-Production-and-Green-Building/

White Paper: 10 Eco-Principles for Community Housing - BDC, 2009.0129
http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6633487.html

37 Million "Green-Collar" Jobs by 2030 - CSE Magazine, 2009.0128
http://www.csemag.com/article/CA6632834.html?rssid=206

New Study Tallies Corn Ethanol Costs - New York Times, 2009.0205
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/new-study-tallies-corn-ethanol-costs/

Hybrid Locomotive Maker Loses Steam - New York Times, 2009.0205
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/hybrid-locomotive-maker-loses-steam/

For Clean Energy: Layoffs and Plummeting Demand - New York Times, 2009.0204
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/for-clean-energy-layoffs-and-plummeting-demand/

Could New Energy Labels Chill European Fridge Sales? - New York Times, 2009.0204
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/could-new-energy-labels-chill-european-fridge-sales/

National Green[washing] Building Standard Approved by ANSI - NAHB Press Release, 2009.0204
http://www.nahb.org/news_details.aspx?sectionID=0&newsID=8571

Arctic Storms Seen Worsening; Threat to Oil, Ships - Reuters, 2009.0204
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5134N720090205

Web Camera Eyes Warming -- from Ocean Floor - MSNBC, 2009.0204
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29020108/

Dark Days for Green Energy - New York Times, 2009.0204
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/business/04windsolar.html

Personal Carbon Budgets Possible by 2020, Says Head of RSA Study - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0203
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/03/personal-carbon-budgets-rsa

Press Release - Cadsoft and iLevel Deliver Integrated BIM to 
     Residential Construction
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People and Places, by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_1-1.html
	Spectrum Design in Rocky Mount, Virginia - Gonzalez
	Goodale in El Monte, California - Delugan Meissl in
	Stuttgart, Germany - Holzman Moss Architecture in
	Florence, South Carolina - Dan Brill Architects in
	Winchester, England, United Kingdom...

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