ArchWeek Green 2009.0604
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Jun 4 11:45:19 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.
Raise your hand if you'd like to be able to trade in your current home
furnace for a blow-dryer. :-)
"These aren't your gramma's storm windows."
Bjorn Nelson holds up a wicked-looking window casing. Sourced
from Germany, it features triple thermal glass panes, three
rubber gaskets, six insulating air chambers and a protective
Plexiglas laminate. It looks like it came off a space shuttle,
but it's headed for a single-family home in Hood River.
"Problem is," says Nelson, "you can't put these windows on
just a regular house. They'd be more energy-efficient than the
walls."
The man makes a good point. The casings have an R-value
(insulation strength) of 5.9 kelvin square meters per watt,
whereas the outer walls of most Portland single-family homes
come in at only 4.6. On most houses, they'd be about as useful
as an iron padlock on a cardboard box. But for this project,
they're essential.
Nelson is an architect at Portland-based Root Design Build,
and the windows are for Root's Shift House, a project ... that
packs a lot of innovative technology, but one thing you won't
find in it is a furnace. That's because, even in winter, you
can heat the whole house with a blow-dryer.
Futurehaus - Willamette Week, 2009.0604
http://wweek.com/columns/coverstory#35.30
Raise both hands if you already have!
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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Funding Struggle for Mercury Monitoring - Nature, 2009.0603
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090603/full/459620b.html
New Auburn Home Most 'Sustainable' in Alabama - Auburn Villager, 2009.0603
http://www.auburnvillager.com/story.html?1244047131026620
Bigger Role for Concentrating Solar Power? - New York Times, 2009.0603
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/bigger-role-for-concentrating-solar-power/
Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels - New York Times, 2009.0603
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/clean-energy-funding-trumps-fossil-fuels/
Blue Planet Warehouse Awarded BREEAM Outstanding - Green Building Press, 2009.0602
http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/article.php?category_id=1&article_id=215
Getting Greener at Google's London Office - New York Times, 2009.0602
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/getting-greener-at-googles-london-office/
Save Our Planet? - Financial Post, 2009.0602
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/SAVE+PLANET/1655237/story.html
Product-Safety Certifier Expands to Green - New York Times, 2009.0602
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/product-safety-certifier-expands-to-green/
Soviet Legacy Seen Worsening Climate Change Impact - Reuters, 2009.0602
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL2485911
The Green Building Review: Re-Skinning and ... Matlock? - CoStar Group, 2009.0602
http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=633613218CAA94A3FDDA822A0856AC5A
Draft Text at UN Climate Talks Clears First Hurdle - Associated Foreign Press, 2009.0601
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZ43mV4Db9iFIXXHXNeo_oS7O0bQ
World's Next Big Climate Pact Begins to Take Shape - Christian Science Monitor, 2009.0601
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/01/worlds-next-big-climate-pact-begins-to-take-shape/
Carbon Emissions Threaten 'Underwater Catastrophe', Scientists Warn - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0601
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/01/carbon-emissions-ocean-acidification
Expecting New Tax, Firm Prepares to Track Carbon - New York Times, 2009.0531
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/start-ups/01carbon.html?ref=earth
Carbon Offsets: A Small Price to Pay for Efficiency - New York Times, 2009.0531
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/business/31view.html?ref=earth
'We Need a Radical, Green Vision' - The Post (Ireland), 2009.0531
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS+FEATURES-qqqm=nav-qqqid=42109-qqqx=1.asp
Hurricane Barriers Floated to Keep Sea Out of NYC - Associated Press, 2009.0531
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g9j-tTpsTezUmkibHnpBsgJ0-_VgD98GMIEO0
Studio MGM's Deep-Green Living Machine - BD, 2009.0529
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=428&storycode=3141376&channel=783&c=2&encCode=000000000199ef60
Forum Says Climate Shift Brings Deaths - New York Times, 2009.0529
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ref=earth
Climate Change Hitting Poor in U.S. Hardest. - Daily Climate, 2009.0529
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2009/05/Climate-Change-hitting-poor-in-U.S.-hardest
The Legal Risks of Building Green - New York Times, 2009.0529
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/the-legal-risks-of-building-green/
Can Incandescent Bulbs Be Made Efficient? - New York Times, 2009.0529
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/can-incandescent-bulbs-be-made-efficient/
Dimas: Europe Will Outperform Kyoto Goals - New York Times, 2009.0529
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/dimas-europe-will-outperform-kyoto-goals/
Building Green Homes -- 10 a Year in Canada - CanWest News Service, 2009.0529
http://www.canada.com/Building+green+homes+year+Canada/1642455/story.html
Obama Moves to Curb Road-Building in Forests - New York Times, 2009.0529
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/29/us/politics/AP-US-Roadless-Forests.html?scp=1&sq=Environment+climate+change&st=nyt
Green Integrated Design Approach - Inquirer, 2009.0529
http://www.inquirer.net/propertyguide/buildingblocks/view.php?db=1&article=20090529-207856
New Shipping Container Office Building - Mother Nature Network, 2009.0528
http://www.mnn.com/business/commercial-building/blogs/new-shipping-container-office-building
Behold the Most Sustainable Projects in the World - CIOB International, 2009.0528
http://www.ciobinternational.org/news/view/1555
Getting Science into Policy - Nature, 2009.0528
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090528/full/news.2009.526.html
Shining a (Natural) Light on Green Schools - New York Times, 2009.0528
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/shining-a-natural-light-on-green-schools/
Bridging the Green Divide - Housing Finance, 2009.0528
http://www.housingfinance.com/aft/articles/2009/may-jun/0509-specialfocus-Bridging-the-Green-Divide.htm
Getting the Green Roof Right - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0527
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0527/index.html
The first common dilemma in the construction of living
green roofs, and other landscapes over structure, is
that, in conventional building, the execution and
completion of site work are often subordinated to the
completion of the building.
From the very beginning of construction of early
packages through the completion of a project, the
coordination of trades, protection of materials,
sequence of construction, effects of seasonal climate,
project costs, and time issues involved in the green
roof system must be brought to the attention of the
construction management entity.
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