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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1347 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:16 am    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.0310 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. Reversing sprawl is a conceptually challenging but large and essential aspect of rebuilding our communities for low carbon footprints. What's amazing is just how feasbile and fruitful the process can be. An ArchitectureWeek article this week looks at some real sprawl-reversing projects... Quote: What of the middle scale -- the ten- to 40-acre (four- to 16-hectare) shopping centers with two or more anchors? What kind of impacts and communities can retrofits build at this scale? Based on his extensive experience, noted urban designer Andres Duany believes that it is difficult to 'establish' a sense of place or urban synergy on less than 15 acres (six hectares). However, what smaller shopping center retrofits in relatively urban areas can do very well is 'restore' urbanism. Uptown District in San Diego and Kirkwood Station Plaza in Kirkwood, Missouri, both restored street connectivity that had been removed by their prior occupants, a giant Sears store and Target, respectively. Real Life Regreening - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0304 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0304/culture_1-1.html Discuss online: http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-24421.html Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Palm Springs Architect Designs LEED Pilot Home - Palm Springs Desert Sun, 2009.0310 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090310/NEWS01/903100308/1026/news12 Carbon Emissions Creating Acidic Oceans Not Seen Since Dinosaurs - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0310 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/10/carbon-emissions-oceans-copenhagen EPA Wants Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Tracking - MSNBC, 2009.0310 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29618853/ Eco Education Slunakov Center Uses Passive Design - Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0309 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/09/slunakov-eco-education-center/ EPA Requests Comments on Latest Energy Star Revision - LEDs, 2009.0309 http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/6/3/4 Unity House Achieves LEED Platinum Status - Village Soup, 2009.0309 http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Education/story.cfm?storyID=148774 In Environmental Push, Looking to Add Diversity - New York Times, 2009.0309 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/earth/10move.html Scientists to Issue Stark Warning over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0308 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/08/climate-change-flooding King Coal's Reign Challenged in Courts, D.C. - MSNBC, 2009.0307 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29571196/ The Inflection Is Near? - New York Times, 2009.0307 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html Hiring in Hydrology Resists the Slump - New York Times, 2009.0307 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/jobs/08start.html Lean, Green Machine - Independent (Ireland), 2009.0307 http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/lean-green-machine-1664568.html Wasting Not, Wanting Not - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2009.0307 http://www.jsonline.com/features/homeandgarden/40663952.html Habitat for Humanity Goes Green in Portland - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0306 http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/03/06/Habitat-for-Humanity-goes-green-in-Portland-Architects-interning-with-local-firms-design-sustainable Home-Grown Power - New York Times, 2009.0306 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/opinion/07bowles.html Thailand's Modular Green Home - Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0306 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/06/prefab-friday-site-specific-thai-family/ China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten to Double - Nature, 2009.0306 http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,611818,00.html A Sleeping Giant? - Nature, 2009.0305 http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0904/full/climate.2009.24.html Green Center Study Goes to Gerding Edlen - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0305 http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/03/05/Green-center-study-goes-to-Gerding-Edlen-Sustainability-Center-of-Excellence-team-also-includes-SERA Living in a Glass House - Construction Week, 2009.0304 http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-4569-living_in_a_glass_house/ Land Use and Density Affect Fires in Indonesia - New York Times, 2009.0303 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/science/03obfires.html Moderate Development Is Tied to Reef Damage - New York Times, 2009.0303 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/science/03obreefs.html Can a 'Smart Grid' Turn Us on to Energy Efficiency? - CNN, 2009.0302 http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/01/eco.smartgrid/ Storing Solar Power in Salt - New York Times, 2009.0302 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/storing-solar-power-in-salt/ Companies Add Chief Sustainability Officers - New York Times, 2009.0302 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/companies-add-chief-sustainability-officers/ On Dr. Seuss' Birthday, Remember the Lorax - US News, 2009.0302 http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/03/02/on-dr-seuss-birthday-remember-the-lorax.html Unity House Takes LEED Platinum - Jetson Green, 2009.0302 http://www.jetsongreen.com/2009/03/unity-house-takes-leed-platinum.html Dead Malls - Sustainable Industries, 2009.0302 http://www.sustainableindustries.com/greenbuilding/40449337.html Construction Materials Beyond Recycled - Chain Leader, 2009.0301 http://www.chainleader.com/article/CA6639980.html?industryid=47555 Outside Atlanta, a Utopia Rises - New York Times, 2009.0301 http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/travel/01heads.html Car Crashes to Please Mother Nature - New York Times, 2009.0301 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/arts/television/02twen.html From Tons of Manure, a Growth Industry - New York Times, 2009.0301 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/connecticut/0301colct.html Hard Paths to Treaty, U.S. Law on Climate - New York Times, 2009.0301 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/hard-paths-to-treaty-us-law-on-climate/ Setting "Green" Goals - New York Times, 2009.0227 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-energy.html Norway Commits 36 Million Euros to Zero-Carbon Building Research - Energy Efficiency News, 2009.0227 http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/policy/i/1893/ Scientists: Flaw in Will's Ice Assertions - New York Times, 2009.0227 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/expers-big-flaw-in-wills-ice-assertions/ Obama's Greenhouse Gas Gamble - New York Times, 2009.0227 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/science/earth/28capntrade.html A Sustained Appetite for Sustainable Homes - Globe and Mail, 2009.0227 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wremays27/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0304/news_1-1.html Handel Architects in Houston, Texas - tvsdesign in Daytona Beach, Florida - Stonehill & Taylor in New York, New York - KSS Architects in Princeton, New Jersey - NBBJ and Fei & Cheng Associates in Taipei, Taiwan... -- * -- Please help us build ArchitectureWeek with your support... 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