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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:36 am    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.0604 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. Raise your hand if you'd like to be able to trade in your current home furnace for a blow-dryer. Quote: "These aren't your gramma's storm windows." Bjorn Nelson holds up a wicked-looking window casing. Sourced from Germany, it features triple thermal glass panes, three rubber gaskets, six insulating air chambers and a protective Plexiglas laminate. It looks like it came off a space shuttle, but it's headed for a single-family home in Hood River. "Problem is," says Nelson, "you can't put these windows on just a regular house. They'd be more energy-efficient than the walls." The man makes a good point. The casings have an R-value (insulation strength) of 5.9 kelvin square meters per watt, whereas the outer walls of most Portland single-family homes come in at only 4.6. On most houses, they'd be about as useful as an iron padlock on a cardboard box. But for this project, they're essential. Nelson is an architect at Portland-based Root Design Build, and the windows are for Root's Shift House, a project ... that packs a lot of innovative technology, but one thing you won't find in it is a furnace. That's because, even in winter, you can heat the whole house with a blow-dryer. Futurehaus - Willamette Week, 2009.0604 http://wweek.com/columns/coverstory#35.30 Raise both hands if you already have! Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Funding Struggle for Mercury Monitoring - Nature, 2009.0603 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090603/full/459620b.html New Auburn Home Most 'Sustainable' in Alabama - Auburn Villager, 2009.0603 http://www.auburnvillager.com/story.html?1244047131026620 Bigger Role for Concentrating Solar Power? - New York Times, 2009.0603 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/bigger-role-for-concentrating-solar-power/ Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels - New York Times, 2009.0603 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/clean-energy-funding-trumps-fossil-fuels/ Blue Planet Warehouse Awarded BREEAM Outstanding - Green Building Press, 2009.0602 http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/article.php?category_id=1&article_id=215 Getting Greener at Google's London Office - New York Times, 2009.0602 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/getting-greener-at-googles-london-office/ Save Our Planet? - Financial Post, 2009.0602 http://www.canada.com/business/fp/SAVE+PLANET/1655237/story.html Product-Safety Certifier Expands to Green - New York Times, 2009.0602 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/product-safety-certifier-expands-to-green/ Soviet Legacy Seen Worsening Climate Change Impact - Reuters, 2009.0602 http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL2485911 The Green Building Review: Re-Skinning and ... Matlock? - CoStar Group, 2009.0602 http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=633613218CAA94A3FDDA822A0856AC5A Draft Text at UN Climate Talks Clears First Hurdle - Associated Foreign Press, 2009.0601 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZ43mV4Db9iFIXXHXNeo_oS7O0bQ World's Next Big Climate Pact Begins to Take Shape - Christian Science Monitor, 2009.0601 http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/01/worlds-next-big-climate-pact-begins-to-take-shape/ Carbon Emissions Threaten 'Underwater Catastrophe', Scientists Warn - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0601 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/01/carbon-emissions-ocean-acidification Expecting New Tax, Firm Prepares to Track Carbon - New York Times, 2009.0531 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/start-ups/01carbon.html?ref=earth Carbon Offsets: A Small Price to Pay for Efficiency - New York Times, 2009.0531 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/business/31view.html?ref=earth 'We Need a Radical, Green Vision' - The Post (Ireland), 2009.0531 http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS+FEATURES-qqqm=nav-qqqid=42109-qqqx=1.asp Hurricane Barriers Floated to Keep Sea Out of NYC - Associated Press, 2009.0531 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g9j-tTpsTezUmkibHnpBsgJ0-_VgD98GMIEO0 Studio MGM's Deep-Green Living Machine - BD, 2009.0529 http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=428&storycode=3141376&channel=783&c=2&encCode=000000000199ef60 Forum Says Climate Shift Brings Deaths - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ref=earth Climate Change Hitting Poor in U.S. Hardest. - Daily Climate, 2009.0529 http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2009/05/Climate-Change-hitting-poor-in-U.S.-hardest The Legal Risks of Building Green - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/the-legal-risks-of-building-green/ Can Incandescent Bulbs Be Made Efficient? - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/can-incandescent-bulbs-be-made-efficient/ Dimas: Europe Will Outperform Kyoto Goals - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/dimas-europe-will-outperform-kyoto-goals/ Building Green Homes -- 10 a Year in Canada - CanWest News Service, 2009.0529 http://www.canada.com/Building+green+homes+year+Canada/1642455/story.html Obama Moves to Curb Road-Building in Forests - New York Times, 2009.0529 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/29/us/politics/AP-US-Roadless-Forests.html?scp=1&sq=Environment+climate+change&st=nyt Green Integrated Design Approach - Inquirer, 2009.0529 http://www.inquirer.net/propertyguide/buildingblocks/view.php?db=1&article=20090529-207856 New Shipping Container Office Building - Mother Nature Network, 2009.0528 http://www.mnn.com/business/commercial-building/blogs/new-shipping-container-office-building Behold the Most Sustainable Projects in the World - CIOB International, 2009.0528 http://www.ciobinternational.org/news/view/1555 Getting Science into Policy - Nature, 2009.0528 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090528/full/news.2009.526.html Shining a (Natural) Light on Green Schools - New York Times, 2009.0528 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/shining-a-natural-light-on-green-schools/ Bridging the Green Divide - Housing Finance, 2009.0528 http://www.housingfinance.com/aft/articles/2009/may-jun/0509-specialfocus-Bridging-the-Green-Divide.htm Getting the Green Roof Right - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0527 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0527/index.html The first common dilemma in the construction of living green roofs, and other landscapes over structure, is that, in conventional building, the execution and completion of site work are often subordinated to the completion of the building. 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