ArchWeek Green 2009.0310
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Tue Mar 10 18:29:58 PDT 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.
Reversing sprawl is a conceptually challenging but large and essential
aspect of rebuilding our communities for low carbon footprints.
What's amazing is just how feasbile and fruitful the process can be.
An ArchitectureWeek article this week looks at some real sprawl-reversing
projects...
What of the middle scale -- the ten- to 40-acre (four- to
16-hectare) shopping centers with two or more anchors? What
kind of impacts and communities can retrofits build at this
scale?
Based on his extensive experience, noted urban designer
Andres Duany believes that it is difficult to 'establish' a
sense of place or urban synergy on less than 15 acres (six
hectares). However, what smaller shopping center retrofits
in relatively urban areas can do very well is 'restore'
urbanism.
Uptown District in San Diego and Kirkwood Station Plaza in
Kirkwood, Missouri, both restored street connectivity that
had been removed by their prior occupants, a giant Sears
store and Target, respectively.
Real Life Regreening - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0304
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0304/culture_1-1.html
Discuss online:
http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-24421.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Palm Springs Architect Designs LEED Pilot Home - Palm Springs Desert Sun, 2009.0310
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090310/NEWS01/903100308/1026/news12
Carbon Emissions Creating Acidic Oceans Not Seen Since Dinosaurs - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0310
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/10/carbon-emissions-oceans-copenhagen
EPA Wants Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Tracking - MSNBC, 2009.0310
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29618853/
Eco Education Slunakov Center Uses Passive Design - Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0309
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/09/slunakov-eco-education-center/
EPA Requests Comments on Latest Energy Star Revision - LEDs, 2009.0309
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/6/3/4
Unity House Achieves LEED Platinum Status - Village Soup, 2009.0309
http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Education/story.cfm?storyID=148774
In Environmental Push, Looking to Add Diversity - New York Times, 2009.0309
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/earth/10move.html
Scientists to Issue Stark Warning over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0308
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/08/climate-change-flooding
King Coal's Reign Challenged in Courts, D.C. - MSNBC, 2009.0307
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29571196/
The Inflection Is Near? - New York Times, 2009.0307
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html
Hiring in Hydrology Resists the Slump - New York Times, 2009.0307
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/jobs/08start.html
Lean, Green Machine - Independent (Ireland), 2009.0307
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/lean-green-machine-1664568.html
Wasting Not, Wanting Not - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2009.0307
http://www.jsonline.com/features/homeandgarden/40663952.html
Habitat for Humanity Goes Green in Portland - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0306
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/03/06/Habitat-for-Humanity-goes-green-in-Portland-Architects-interning-with-local-firms-design-sustainable
Home-Grown Power - New York Times, 2009.0306
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/opinion/07bowles.html
Thailand's Modular Green Home - Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0306
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/06/prefab-friday-site-specific-thai-family/
China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten to Double - Nature, 2009.0306
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,611818,00.html
A Sleeping Giant? - Nature, 2009.0305
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0904/full/climate.2009.24.html
Green Center Study Goes to Gerding Edlen - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0305
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/03/05/Green-center-study-goes-to-Gerding-Edlen-Sustainability-Center-of-Excellence-team-also-includes-SERA
Living in a Glass House - Construction Week, 2009.0304
http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-4569-living_in_a_glass_house/
Land Use and Density Affect Fires in Indonesia - New York Times, 2009.0303
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/science/03obfires.html
Moderate Development Is Tied to Reef Damage - New York Times, 2009.0303
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/science/03obreefs.html
Can a 'Smart Grid' Turn Us on to Energy Efficiency? - CNN, 2009.0302
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/01/eco.smartgrid/
Storing Solar Power in Salt - New York Times, 2009.0302
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/storing-solar-power-in-salt/
Companies Add Chief Sustainability Officers - New York Times, 2009.0302
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/companies-add-chief-sustainability-officers/
On Dr. Seuss' Birthday, Remember the Lorax - US News, 2009.0302
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/03/02/on-dr-seuss-birthday-remember-the-lorax.html
Unity House Takes LEED Platinum - Jetson Green, 2009.0302
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2009/03/unity-house-takes-leed-platinum.html
Dead Malls - Sustainable Industries, 2009.0302
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/greenbuilding/40449337.html
Construction Materials Beyond Recycled - Chain Leader, 2009.0301
http://www.chainleader.com/article/CA6639980.html?industryid=47555
Outside Atlanta, a Utopia Rises - New York Times, 2009.0301
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/travel/01heads.html
Car Crashes to Please Mother Nature - New York Times, 2009.0301
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/arts/television/02twen.html
From Tons of Manure, a Growth Industry - New York Times, 2009.0301
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/connecticut/0301colct.html
Hard Paths to Treaty, U.S. Law on Climate - New York Times, 2009.0301
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/hard-paths-to-treaty-us-law-on-climate/
Setting "Green" Goals - New York Times, 2009.0227
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-energy.html
Norway Commits 36 Million Euros to Zero-Carbon Building Research - Energy Efficiency News, 2009.0227
http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/policy/i/1893/
Scientists: Flaw in Will's Ice Assertions - New York Times, 2009.0227
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/expers-big-flaw-in-wills-ice-assertions/
Obama's Greenhouse Gas Gamble - New York Times, 2009.0227
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/science/earth/28capntrade.html
A Sustained Appetite for Sustainable Homes - Globe and Mail, 2009.0227
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wremays27/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0304/news_1-1.html
Handel Architects in Houston, Texas - tvsdesign in
Daytona Beach, Florida - Stonehill & Taylor in New
York, New York - KSS Architects in Princeton, New
Jersey - NBBJ and Fei & Cheng Associates in Taipei,
Taiwan...
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