ArchWeek Green 2009.0430
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Apr 30 16:27:04 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.
This week we ask, with the expert help of ArchitectureWeek correspondent
Christine MacDonald, "What would you call a green building standard that,
on balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform more than help?
Michael Luzier, president of the NAHB Research Center, a
subsidiary of the homebuilders trade association, says his
organization was responding to concern among homebuilders
that LEED was gaining too much momentum.
"It was creating cachet at the legislative level. Builders
felt it wasn't fair" that they hadn't had more of a say in
developing the LEED standard, Luzier says.
But for Jason Grant, an architect and green building
consultant in Sebastopol, California, and others who have
spent years cultivating in the blossoming green building
market, the NAHB's "green" forays are part of a wider effort
by mainstream builders to confuse consumers and co-opt the
movement.
Green or Greenwashed? - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/environment_1-1.html
Discuss online:
http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-25032.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore - New York Times, 2009.0430
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/businessspecial2/30solar.html
Mysterious industry front-group affiliated with Ken Lay's former speechwriter launches anti-Waxman-Markey ads with phony MIT cost figures - Climate Progess (blog), 2009.0430
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=33234
Chu Promises Speedier Funding for Renewable Energy Projects - New York Times, 2009.0430
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/chu-pomises-speedier-funding-for-renewable-energy-projects/
LEED at Rock Row - New York Times, 2009.0430
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/seeing-things-taking-the-leed-at-rock-row/
Wilkins ice shelf collapse continues - Nature Climate Feedback (blog), 2009.0429
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=33083
Noted Architect Advocates Green Buildings - Manila Bulletin, 2009.0428
http://mb.com.ph/articles/203969/noted-architect-advocates-green-buildings
Real Estate Professionals Seek Green Building Education. - ENN, 2009.0428
http://www.enn.com/business/article/39797
Espionage and the 'Nuclear Renaissance' - New York Times, 2009.0428
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/espionage-and-the-nuclear-renaissance/
China's Greener Future? - Nature, 2009.0428
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090428/full/news.2009.413.html
Climate Scientist Fired for Talking to Media - Nature, 2009.0428
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090428/full/news.2009.410.html
Gore to Blackburn: "You Don't Know Me" - New York Times, 2009.0427
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/gore-to-blackburn-you-dont-know-me/
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The Green House of the Future - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0427
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050414436548553.html
Using Nuclear Power to Extract Oil? - New York Times, 2009.0427
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/using-nuclear-power-to-extract-oil/
Home Green Home: Affordable Efficiency? - New York Times, 2009.0427
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/home-green-home-affordable-efficiency/
Cement Makers Decry Emissions Rules - New York Times, 2009.0427
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/cement-makers-decry-emissions-proposal/
California Fuel Move Angers Ethanol Makers - New York Times, 2009.0424
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/california-fuel-move-angers-ethanol-makers/
City Plans to Make Older Buildings Refit to Save Energy - New York Times, 2009.0422
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/science/earth/22green.html?_r=1&ref=earth
Darling Presents First "Carbon Budget" - Financial Times, 2009.0422
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d976eaa-2f3d-11de-b52f-00144feabdc0.html
Green or Greenwashed? - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/environment_1-1.html
What would you call a green building standard that, on
balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform
more than help?
ASU Polytechnic Green - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/index.html
The new academic complex on the Polytechnic campus of
Arizona State University (ASU) was built to withstand
the insistent, erosive forces of the desert around Mesa,
Arizona.
An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It - New York Times, 2009.0422
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/22flint.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
World's Major Rivers 'Drying Up' - BBC News, 2009.0421
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8011497.stm
Catholic Coalition Seeks to Influence Outcome of Climate-Change Bill - Catholic News Service, 2009.0421
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901812.htm
EPA Honors Northern California Environmental Heroes - Imperial Valley News, 2009.0417
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5229&Itemid=1
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0422/news_1-1.html
Lord, Aeck & Sargent, with Prescott Muir Architects and
Architectural Nexus in Salt Lake City, Utah - Wallace
Roberts & Todd in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Stanley
Tigerman in Skokie, Illinois - Alliance Architects in
Arlington, Texas - Arquitectonica in Singapore,
Singapore - Standard in Los Angeles, California - NBBJ
in Bucheon, South Korea - RMJM in Trenton, New Jersey...
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Pogue's Top Ten Cocktail-Party Questions - New York Times, 2009.0423
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/04/23/technology/circuitsemail/index.html?8cir&emc=cir
Apple Easily Tops Expectations - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0423
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Personal Technology: Phoning in Data - Nature, 2009.0422
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UCLA Creates Virtual Model of Historic Temple Complex - UCLA Press Release, 2009.0422
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