ArchWeek Green 2009.0915
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Tue Sep 15 11:53:57 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.
Cap and trade is a serious approach to directing climate change
mitigation in open markets. Cap and trade is considered to be more
politically acceptable than a carbon tax - and more adaptable to
the transition plans of legacy industries - while a simple
carbon tax is much more straightforward.
Cap and trade is also more readily applicable to large regulated
industries, and relatively hard to apply to widely distributed
sources... like buildings!
Now, France has stepped up with a real carbon tax plan, designed to
be a supplement to the European Union cap-and-trade system already in
operation. The new carbon tax is designed to apply in key areas
missed by EU cap and trade.
France is set to become the first major European economy to
implement a carbon tax - a levy on activities that emit
substantial amounts of carbon dioxide.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, announced on 10 September
that the tax would come into effect at the start of 2010. The
tax draws largely on recommendations made on 28 July by an
expert panel commissioned by the government, and chaired by the
former Socialist prime minister, Michel Rocard.
Nature discussed the tax with Jean Jouzel, a member of the
Rocard panel, former director of the Pierre-Simon Laplace
Institute in the Paris area, and a member of the bureau of the
International Panel on Climate Change.
Nature: The French carbon tax will be levied at a rate of 17 euros
(US$25) per tonne of CO2 -- the current market price. Is that
enough to change people's carbon-emitting habits?
Jouzel: What's most important is that a carbon tax of some sort
is going to be introduced. Starting at 32 euros per tonne, as our
report recommended, would have been more courageous. The
economists on the panel considered that 40 euros was the minimum for
the carbon tax to be effective in changing consumer behaviour,
so 32 euros was itself already a compromise...
France Unveils Carbon Tax - Nature, 2009.0911
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090911/full/news.2009.905.html
Discuss online:
http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-30838.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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The California Academy of Sciences... Sustainable Exhibition Design - Fast Company, 2009.0915
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/california-academy-sciences-delivers-sustainable-message-sustainable-
Fuel Efficiency Plan Would Force Gradual Changes on Automakers - Reuters, 2009.0915
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE58E5WM20090915
EPA to Propose Ways to Cut Car Emissions - USA Today, 2009.0914
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/environment/2009-09-14-jackson_N.htm
A Cheap Fix for Climate: Retrofitting - New York Times, 2009.0914
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14green.html
Aria and Vdara Hotels Earn LEED Gold - PR Newswire, 2009.0914
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11124037
New York City Braces for Risk of Higher Seas - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0911
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125261934441101047.html
Green House in Georgia - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0909
http://www.architectureweek.com/2009/0909/index.html
In the American South, a region that tends to laud its heritage,
modern can be a hard sell. A residential client often hears
neighborhood fears that a new modern dwelling will look "chilly"
and won't fit in.
People Power - Nature, 2009.0908
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0908/full/climate.2009.75.html
Woman's Straw Bale House Withstands the Bluster of Critics - WBFO, 2009.0909
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1552252/Arts..and..Culture/Woman's.Straw.Bale.House.Withstands.the.Bluster.of.Critics.
Homeless Shelter Receives LEED Certification - Loudon Times-Mirror, 2009.0908
http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/homeless-shelter-takes-leed-energy-efficiency/
A Turning Point for Green-Energy Stimulus Projects? - NPR, 2009.0908
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112536897
Green Buildings Standard Seen as Flawed - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0908
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/08/BU1A19K7LM.DTL&type=business
Florida State University's "Green" House Is Energy Efficient, Environmentally Friendly - St. Petersburg Times, 2009.0908
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/florida-state-universitys-green-house-is-energy-efficient-environmentally/1034383
Bechtel to Build Solar Energy Plant in California - New York Times, 2009.0908
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/bechtel-to-build-solar-energy-plant-in-california/
Panels of Light Fascinate Designers - New York Times, 2009.0907
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/technology/07bulb.html
Schools Going Green Big-Time - Baltimore Sun, 2009.0907
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-md.gr.greenschool07sep07,0,5804340.story
France Mulls CO2 Taxes on Citizens - New York Times, 2009.0907
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/france-mulls-co2-taxes-on-citizens/
St. Louis School Embraces Eco-Friendly Design - News-Leader, 2009.0906
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20090906/NEWS01/909060355/St.+Louis+school+embraces+eco-friendly+design
Investors Working to 'Green' Houses - Arizona Republic, 2009.0906
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2009/09/06/20090906biz-greenhomes0906.html
Climate Change: Melting Ice Will Trigger Wave of Natural Disasters - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0906
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/06/global-warming-natural-disasters-conference
Germany's First Eco-City - Sun Daily, 2009.0905
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=37577
What's a Green Roof? - Examiner, 2009.0904
http://www.examiner.com/x-13636-Backyard-Living-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Whats-a-green-roof
LEED Seeks to Beef Up Its Credentials - New York Times, 2009.0904
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/leed-seeks-to-beef-up-its-credentials/
Eco Pods Create Level 5 Social Housing - Green Building Press, 2009.0904
http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/article.php?category_id=1&article_id=325
How Green Building Can Save the Housing Industry - Green Right Now, 2009.0904
http://www.greenrightnow.com/kabc/2009/09/04/how-green-building-can-save-the-housing-industry/
Out of the Woods: Hopkins' Green Learning Machine - BD, 2009.0904
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=428&storycode=3147893&channel=783&c=2&encCode=0000000001a1131a
Green Roofs "Fluff" for Many Architects - A&D, 2009.0904
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/article/Green-roofs-fluff-for-many-architects/497069.aspx
Labels, Consumers and Efficient TVs - New York Times, 2009.0903
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/labels-consumers-and-efficient-tvs/
Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya - New York Times, 2009.0903
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/solar-power-mobile-phones-converge-to-distribute-water-in-kenya/
Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project - New York Times, 2009.0903
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/lawsuit-filed-to-block-pipeline-project/
Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age - New York Times, 2009.0903
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/science/earth/04arctic.html
A Skeptic Finds Faith in Geoengineering - New York Times, 2009.0903
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/a-skeptic-finds-faith/
Emissions Linked to End of 2,000-Year Arctic Trend - Washington Post, 2009.0903
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302199.html
Energy Company Calls Halt to Drilling Project - New York Times, 2009.0902
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/business/energy-environment/03alta.html
Former Power Plant to Save Power as LEED School - CSE Live, 2009.0902
http://www.csemag.com/article/339256-Former_power_plant_to_save_power_as_LEED_school.php?rssid=20192
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0909/news_2-1.html
Frank Harmon Architect PA in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Steven Holl Architects and JM Architects in Glasgow,
Scotland, United Kingdom - Leo A Daly in Washington,
D.C., USA - RTKL in Batumi, Georgia - Aleks Istanbullu
Architects in West Hollywood, California...
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http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6694977.html
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