ArchWeek Green 2010.0831

Tue Aug 31 11:19:45 PDT 2010

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Almost as interesting as the content of this story in the New York Times business section today, about corporate environmental responsibility, is the fact that it's currently the most-emailed business story at the Times:

	"Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or
	churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil
	from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists' biggest
	industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative.

	"For a growing number of banks, however, that does not seem to
	matter. 

	"After years of legal entanglements arising from environmental
	messes and increased scrutiny of banks that finance the dirtiest
	industries, several large commercial lenders are taking a stand
	on industry practices that they regard as risky to their
	reputations and bottom lines.

	"In the most recent example, the banking giant Wells Fargo noted
	last month what it called 'considerable attention and
	controversy' surrounding mountaintop removal mining, and said
	that its involvement with companies engaged in it was 'limited
	and declining.'"

Banks Grow Wary of Environmental Risks - New York Times, 2010.0831
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/energy-environment/31coal.html

And today at Climate Progress, there's a significant write-up on the huge potential of building energy-efficiency retrofits:

	"Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution: The biggest
	low-carbon resource by far.  'Efficiency Works,' a major new
	report by Bracken Hendricks, Bill Campbell, Pen Goodale, finds
	that a straightforward set of policies aimed at upgrading just
	40% of the residential and commercial building stock in the
	United States would:

	- Create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade

	- Spark $500 billion in new investments to upgrade 50 million
	  homes and office buildings

	- Generate as much as $64 billion a year in cost savings for
	  U.S. ratepayers, freeing consumers to spend their money in 
	  more productive ways"

Upgrading Just 40% of Buildings would Generate 625,000 Jobs and Cut U.S. Energy Bills up to $64 Billion a Year - Climate Progress, 2010.0831
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=70614

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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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New Poll: Americans Want EPA Action on Climate - Climate Progress, 2010.0831
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=70600

The House That One Man Can Lift. - TreeHugger (Blog), 2010.0830
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/house-one-man-can-lift-sanctuary-magazine.php

Joseph A. Wilkes Dies; Architect Was Early Advocate of Green Building Practices - Washington Post, 2010.0830
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082902752.html

Friends of the Earth Urges End to 'Land Grab' for Biofuels - Guardian, 2010.0830
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/biofuels-land-grab-friends-of-the-earth

Engineering School Renovation Earns LEED Gold - Green Building Elements, 2010.0830
http://greenbuildingelements.com/2010/08/30/engineering-school-renovation-earns-leed-gold/

Green Island Hub Plan for Bahrain - Gulf Daily News, 2010.0830
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=285771

Bjorn Lomborg's Missing Questions - Guardian, 2010.0830
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/aug/30/lombard-missing-questions-climate-change

New Study Links Toxic Pollutants to Canadian Oil Sands Mining - New York Times, 2010.0830
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/new-findings-on-toxic-pollutants-and-oil-sands-mining/

The Biking Boom Breeds Discontent - New York Times, 2010.0830
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/a-bike-boom-backlash/

What's the Difference Between Climate Science and Climate Journalism? - Climate Progress, 2010.0829
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=70524

Warning to Birds: All-Glass Buildings Ahead - New York Times, 2010.0829
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/business/29novel.html

Making the Green Grade - Arabian Business, 2010.0828
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/595742-making-the-green-grade

After Katrina, New Orleans Housing Goes Green - Christian Science Monitor, 2010.0828
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0828/After-Katrina-New-Orleans-housing-goes-green

Green Building Code Aims to Cut Energy Bills by 40% - The National, 2010.0828
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100829/NATIONAL/708289866/1133/FOREIGN

Coffee Threatened by Beetles in a Warming World - Guardian, 2010.0827
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/27/coffee-threatened-beetles-warming

BP Engineers Remember the Day the Rig Exploded - New York Times, 2010.0827
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/bp-engineers-remember-the-day-the-rig-exploded/

Greener Building Regs in Wales from Next Week - Green Building Press, 2010.0827
http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/article.php?category_id=1&article_id=661

MIT Students Design for a Sustainable Future in Cambodia - Just Means, 2010.0827
http://www.justmeans.com/MIT-Students-Design-for-a-Sustainable-Future-in-Cambodia/28494.html

NSF Funds Interdisciplinary Team's Grey Water Disinfection Plan - UC Berkeley News, 2010.0826
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/08/26_grey_water.shtml

Sustainable Architecture in Israel Blooms in a Straw-Bale House - Green Prophet, 2010.0826
http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/08/straw-bale-house-israel/

Net Zero Sungazing House in Park City - Jetson Green, 2010.0826
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/08/net-zero-sungazing-passive-house-utah.html

Devices That Help Plug Electrical Leaks - New York Times, 2010.0826
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/garden/26hometech.html

A Newspaper Apologizes to United Nations' Climate Chief - New York Times, 2010.0826
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/a-newspaper-apologizes-to-united-nations-climate-chief/

A Public Composting Toilet in New York City - New York Times, 2010.0826
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/a-public-composting-toilet-in-new-york-city/

Architect a Pioneer in "Green" Approach - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2010.0825
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/25/architect-a-pioneer-in-green-approach/

Eero's Rink Reborn, or... Adding to the Yale Whale - ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0825
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0825/index.html
	It's not often that an architect gets to add to a building that
	he or she worked on years before, especially after a span of 50
	years. But that's the case for the new expansion of Yale's David
	S. Ingalls Rink, originally designed by Eero Saarinen in the
	early 1950s.

Architect Hopes to Live Off the Grid - Westport Patch, 2010.0825
http://westport.patch.com/articles/architect-hopes-to-live-off-the-grid

Architect's 40-Year Endeavor to Erect Earth-Friendly City Still Inspires - Houma Today, 2010.0825
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100825/ARTICLES/100829646/-1/opinion?Title=Architect-8217-s-40-year-endeavor-to-erect-Earth-friendly-city-still-inspires

Sustainable Living Pays off for Reno Couple - KRNV News, 2010.0825
http://www.mynews4.com/story.php?id=26298&n=122

Belvidere Native a Renowned Architect - Rockford Register Star, 2010.0825
http://www.rrstar.com/carousel/x414776985/Belvidere-native-a-renowned-architect

Canada Picks Site for Arctic Research Station - Nature, 2010.0825
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100825/full/news.2010.432.html

U.S. Research Vessel Sees Few Signs of Spilled Oil - Reuters, 2010.0824
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67M4BJ20100824

Sea Level to Rise Even with Aggressive Geo-Engineering and Greenhouse Gas Control, Study Finds - Science Daily, 2010.0824
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100824092408.htm

LEED for Schools: Unique Opportunities - Green Building Pro, 2010.0824
http://www.greenbuildingpro.com/articles/57-features/2093

'Sustainable' Label Recognizes Area Businesses That Go Green - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2010.0824
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10236/1082203-455.stm

Going Green, Without Being Preachy about It - New York Times, 2010.0823
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/nyregion/23meenan.html

New Jersey to Take Lead in Offshore Wind Energy? - Matter Network, 2010.0823
http://www.matternetwork.com/2010/8/new-jersey-take-lead-offshore.cfm

Nuclear Plant's Use of River Water Prompts $1.1 Billion Debate - New York Times, 2010.0823
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/science/earth/23cooling.html

Green Roofs and Schools - Green Building Pro, 2010.0823
http://www.greenbuildingpro.com/articles/57-features/2078-green-roofs-and-schools

Mauritania Plants Trees to Hold Back Desert - Reuters, 2010.0821
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67K1LI20100821

Does Salem's Building Disaster Give LEED a Bad Name? - Matter Network, 2010.0820
http://www.matternetwork.com/2010/8/does-salems-building-disaster-give.cfm

Groundbreaking on DC Region's First Passive House - PRNewswire, 2010.0820
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groundbreaking-on-dc-regions-first-passive-house-101176084.html

On 'Travel and the Built Environment' - ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0818
http://www.architectureweek.com/2010/0818/index.html
	News flash: The distance between a residential development
	location and the metropolitan center is one of the strongest
	factors influencing how much residents will drive.

	The density of a neighborhood, in and of itself, turns out to be
	the weakest of the commonly considered "D" variables, key
	dimensions of the built environment that influence how -- and how
	much -- people move around.

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