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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: Green Wednesday 2007.0425 |
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Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly green design and building news from around the world.
Coincidentally, I spent much of Tuesday evening at a local planning hearing, eventually to testify that (city staff findings notwithstanding) there is a locational component to the systems-level carbon footprint and energy consumption driven by the siting of a new regional hospital.
Since we've documented that vehicle miles traveled per person per day (VMT) around here run about four times greater for trip sources out at the edge of the urban growth boundary, compared to the VMT for the metropolitan core - and since my city has made a official commitment to reduce carbon emissions - I wanted to suggest that the sprawl/climate-change connection might deserve to be evaluated.
Meanwhile, back in China...
"Up to about 50 residents per acre, roughly equivalent to Stockholm or Copenhagen, per-capita energy use falls fast. People walk and bike more, public transit makes economic sense, and there are ways to make heating and cooling more efficient. But then the curve flattens out. Pack in 120 people per acre, like Singapore, or 300 people, like Hong Kong, and the energy savings are negligible. Dongtan, the team decided, should try to hit that sweet spot around Stockholm."
Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis - Wired, 2007.0424
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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U.N. Panel to Lay Out Steps on Warming - New York Times, 2007.0424
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Climate-Report.html
Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons - New York Times, 2007.0424
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Want to Get Rich? It's Obvious: Get Green - Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2007.0422
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/1135297.html
Eco-Heaven: A £500,000 Mud House - U.K. Times, 2007.0422
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687564.ece
The Birthplace of Earth Day Keeps the Faith - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0421
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070421.wxsantabarb21/BNStory/specialTravel/home
Buildings Going Green, Bigger and Taller - Toronto Star, 2007.0421
http://www.thestar.com/Athome/article/204257
Power Lines in New Link to Childhood Leukaemia - Telegraph, 2007.0421
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/21/nleuk21.xml
Norway Aims for Zero-Carbon Status, All Emissions Offset by 2050 - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0421
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2062357,00.html
Living the Dream - Chicago Sun-Times, 2007.0420
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/350277,CST-NWS-ghouse20.article
Housing Project Taps Wood-Waste Energy - Business Edge, 2007.0420
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/15177.cfm
Biomass Heat System Scrapped - Vancouver Sun, 2007.0418
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=db9efc51-cbd3-4ede-9129-249d9f8e039f
Sweetwater Creek - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0418
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0418/environment_1-1.html
Like many other buildings that receive the coveted Platinum-level LEED certification, the Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors Center, near Lithia Springs, Georgia, features numerous energy conservation measures and has a roof full of photovoltaic cells to generate electricity.
Bill That Would Mandate Green Building Standards Advances - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0418
http://www.mercurynews.com/realestate/ci_5693047
Buildings Fingered in NYC Carbon Inventory - Architectural Record, 2007.0416
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070416carbon.asp
Buildings are Big Belchers - BusinessWeek, 2007.0418
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/aid20070418_248242.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design
£67M Eden Project Will Show Perils of Warmer World - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0415
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057588,00.html
City Buildings Contribute to Emissions Problem - Columbia Journalist, 2007.0409
http://www.columbiajournalist.org/deadline/2005/article.asp?subj=city&course=deadline&id=1466
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Silver Spring, Los Angeles:
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If your client is uncomfortable with their potential
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