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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: Green Wednesday 2007.0131 |
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Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly news on green design and building from around the world.
The biggest event this week related to green building will come on Friday, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a keenly-awaited major update to its powerful report. As we close in on the release, with final editing underway behind closed doors, rumors abound - along with a rich harvest of other news!
"Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the sugarcoated version.
"Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers. Those calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations:
"They 'don't take into account the gorillas -- Greenland and Antarctica,' said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. 'I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century.'"
New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say - New York Times, 2007.0129
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Climate-Report.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Public School Teaches and Inspires - EDC, 2007.0200
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Cover_Story/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000029183
Sustaining Curiosity - EDC, 2007.0200
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000029684
California May Ban Conventional Lightbulbs by 2012 - Yahoo News, 2007.0130
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/sc_nm/energy_california_lightbulbs_dc_2
China Pushes for Energy-Efficient Buildings - Green Biz, 2007.0130
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34517
In the Rockies, Pines Die - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/science/30bear.html?ref=science
Panel Hears Climate 'Spin' Allegations - Boston Globe, 2007.0130
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/01/30/panel_hears_climate_spin_allegations/
Home Builders Win Battle to Use Plastic Water Pipes - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0130
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16578399.htm
Australians to Turn to Recycled Water - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/asia/30australia.html?ref=asia
U.N. Chief Urged to Call Climate Summit - New York Times, 2007.0130
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Change-Summit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Adobe Snares a Hat Trick - Law.com, 2007.0130
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1170077830393
Climate Report Says Millions to Go Hungry, Waterless - Alaska Report, 2007.0129
http://www.alaskareport.com/reu77621.htm
Rising Sea Levels Doom Beaches, Geologist Warns - Honolulu Star Bulletin, 2007.0129
http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/29/news/story01.html
Allotments to Be Bulldozed to Make Way for 'Green' Olympics - New Builder, 2007.0129
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1795
Fighting the Urban Sprawl - BusinessWeek, 2007.0129
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070119_645420.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_top+stories
'Out of the Realm of Novelty': Green Circle Shopping Center - Springfield Business Journal, 2007.0129
http://www.sbj.net/weekly_article.asp?aID=24179978.2977454.991042.8940374.5860575.504&aID2=76225
Sky Gardens Spur Building Boom - New York Daily News, 2007.0128
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/492809p-415101c.html
Rent Your Own Solar Panels - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0125
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/greenbuilding/archives/110836.asp
Recycled Excuses - The Pitch (Kansas City), 2007.0125
http://www.pitch.com/Issues/2007-01-25/news/news.html
Historic Preservation and Green Building: Lasting Relationship - BuildingGreen.com, 2007.0125
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160101a.xml
Report Guides Carbon Offset Customers - BuildingGreen.com, 2007.0125
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=160103a.xml
Climate Advocates 'Underwhelmed' by President's Vision. - Nature, 2007.0124
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/070122-6.html
Product News - Encycle(tm) modular carpet backing from Mohawk
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0124/products_update.html
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Kate Diamond, FAIA, brings more LEED experience to NBBJ Seattle
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/people_and_places.html
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Protective coatings consist of pigments, binders, and
solvents. Paints are typically classified according to
their vehicles or binders. What are the two main types of
paint?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/quiz.html
Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
About how much does one yard (27 cubic feet, or 0.76
cubic meters) of loose rock weigh? About how much does
one yard of the same type of rock weigh when compacted?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0124/answer.html
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Array of round windows (WI-060)
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