ArchWeek Green 2009.1111

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This new IEA finding certainly highlights the costs of continuing 
inaction on changing the carbon footprints of our communities.

An interesting and important new impact estimate is just out from a 
mainstream international technical source.

	The world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon
	emissions for each year it delays implementing a major assault
	on global warming, the International Energy Agency said on
	Tuesday. At United Nations climate talks in Barcelona last week
	negotiators from developed countries said the world would need
	an extra six to 12 months to agree a legally binding, global
	deal to cut carbon emissions beyond a planned December deadline.

	The IEA, energy adviser to 28 industrialized countries, said the
	world must act urgently to put greenhouse gases on a track to
	limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.

	Every year's delay beyond 2010 would add another $500 billion to
	the extra investment of $10,500 billion needed from 2010-2030 to
	curb carbon emissions, for example to improve energy efficiency
	and boost low-carbon renewable energy...

Cost of Extra Year's Climate Inaction $500 Billion: IEA - Reuters, 2009.1110
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5A91U420091110

Discuss online:
http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-31024.html

Time Has Come to Make the Hard Choices to Combat Climate Change - IEA Press Release, 2009.1110
http://www.iea.org/press/pressdetail.asp?PRESS_REL_ID=294

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Montgomery Draws a Car-Free Blueprint for Growth - Washington Post, 2009.1111
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111009846.html

ACCCE Exploits Veterans Groups To Push Dirty Energy Agenda - Climate Progress, 2009.1111
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=46742

Autodesk East Coast Headquarters Achieves LEED-CI Platinum Certification - Autodesk Press Release
http://news.autodesk.com/news/autodesk/20091111005195/en

EPA Marks One Million Energy Star Homes Built in the United States - EPA Press Release, 2009.1110
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ed770b89555842378525766a00563519?OpenDocument

Autodesk Green Building Studio Adds Weather Locations - Autodesk Press Release, 2009.1110
http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20091110005481/en

Supermodel: Why I Took It Off For Climate Change - Climate Progress, 2009.1111
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=46673

Financing Challenges for Geothermal Power - New York Times, 2009.1110
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/financing-challenges-for-geothermal-power/

Can't Teach an Old Car Company New Tricks - Climate Progress, 2009.1110
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=46616

EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding to White House - Reuters, 2009.1109
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5A84FN20091109

Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash - New York Times, 2009.1109
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html

Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost - New York Times, 2009.1109
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/brazilian-wind-power-gets-a-boost/

Universities Look for Heat Underground - New York Times, 2009.1109
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/universities-turn-to-geothermal/

California Academy of Sciences Among Four Winners of ULI Awards - American Chronicle, 2009.1109
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/127419

Straw Might Be the Building Material of the Future - US News & World Report, 2009.1109
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/11/09/straw-might-be-the-building-material-of-the-future.html

Solar Power Goes Underground - MSNBC, 2009.1109
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33793775/ns/technology_and_science-future_of_energy/

Passive Houses a Growing Trend in Marin - Marin Independent-Journal, 2009.1108
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_13745108

Britain's Nuclear Strategy Threatens Destruction of Kalahari - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.1108
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/08/nuclear-power-namibia-mining

Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally - New York Times, 2009.1108
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world/americas/08peru.html

Building on a Green Foundation - Arizona Republic, 2009.1107
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2009/11/07/20091107Gore08.html

Stanbrook Abbey, a Sustainable Monastery - Tainted Green, 2009.1107
http://taintedgreen.com/solar-power/stanbrook-abbey-a-sustainable-monastery/000400

Geoengineering Being Discussed in Washington - ENN, 2009.1106
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/40672

Defining 'Sustainable' Palm Oil Production - New York Times, 2009.1106
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/defining-sustainable-palm-oil-production/

Empire State Building Goes Green the Retro Way - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.1106
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/05/BUUT1AFV04.DTL&type=business

Landscapes Now Get 'Green' Ratings - USA Today, 2009.1105
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-11-04-green-rating_N.htm

The Greening of Willis Tower: Rooftop Gardens Part of Plan to Improve Efficiency - Chicago Tribune, 2009.1105
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-200911050803mctnewsservbc-real-env-willistower,0,3573507.story

The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009 - Greener Buildings, 2009.1105
http://www.greenerbuildings.com/research/report/2009/11/05/green-building-market-and-impact-report-2009

New England AIA Awards - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1104
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1104/index.html
	The rectangular volume of Kroon Hall by Michael Hopkins
	wears one great roof, pitched up to a broadly curving
	ridgeline. This new home for Yale University's School of
	Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven,
	Connecticut, achieves both a welcoming form and a high
	level of sustainable design.

Precast Concrete Framing Systems - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1104
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1104/building_1-1.html
	Focusing on structural engineering issues involved in
	the repair, restoration, or adaptive reuse of older
	buildings for which drawings no longer exist, this
	article is the fifth in a series about antiquated structural 
	systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse.

New Orleans in the Forefront of a Green Building Revolution - Christian Science Monitor, 2009.1104
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/11/04/new-orleans-in-the-forefront-of-a-green-building-revolution/

Green Beliefs Win Legal Protection - Independent Digital, 2009.1104
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/green-beliefs-win-legal-protection-1814180.html

Together Forever - Washington City Paper, 2009.1104
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=38060

US Scales Down Hopes of Global Climate Change Treaty in Copenhagen - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.1104
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/04/us-climate-change-copenhagen-treaty

Cambridge City Hall - EDC, 2009.1101
http://www.edcmag.com/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000685984

The Climate Change Game - Nature, 2009.1029
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0911/full/climate.2009.112.html

People and Places, by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1104/news_2-1.html
	KlingStubbins in West Windsor Township, New Jersey -
	CamargoCopeland Architects in Dallas, Texas - National
	Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., USA - 
	Walter Gropius in Chicago, Illinois - HOK in Orlando, 
	Florida - Frederick Fisher and Partners in Pasadena, 
	California - OCV Architects in New York, New York - PGAL
	at Dulles in Chantilly, Virginia...

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Indian Utility Taps Modeling Software to Solve Water Crisis - Cadalyst, 2009.1104
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Istanbul Airport Terminal Is 'Model for the Future' - Arup Press Release, 2009.1103
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ArchiCAD Team Wins Best Project Award at Build Live Tokyo 2009 II - Graphisoft Press Release, 2009.1102
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	der Rohe, Frank Gehry, Daniel Burnham, and Luis
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	A. "Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir men's blood."
	B. "Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."
	C. "God is in the details."
	D. "Designs of a purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to 
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	E. And one of my favorites: "You've got to bumble forward into 
		the unknown."
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