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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1337 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:02 am    Post subject: Green Wednesday 2008.1001 Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends, Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly green design and building news from around our planet. Percollation of understanding about the geography of VMT in America, and how crucial it is to reducing US greenhouse gas emissions, is a slow process. These new sprawl-reduction incentives in California represent a very significant step toward where we need to go... immediately... "California embarked Tuesday on a sweeping effort to curb suburban sprawl by rewarding communities that build homes and workplaces closer together to reduce pollution that contributes to global warming. "However, a multibillion-dollar proposal to curb air pollution near the state's ports was rejected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who concluded that the related cargo fees would harm an already suffering economy. "The state's water crisis also attracted his attention Tuesday as he approved $842 million to boost the water supply and bolster endangered levees. "The three environment-related measures were in the spotlight as Schwarzenegger finished work on this year's legislation before a midnight deadline... "He won some praise for signing landmark legislation to control the state's global-warming emissions by discouraging sprawl with the nation's first law using government incentives to link transportation funding with climate policy." Governor Kills Port Smog-Fighting Bill, Signs into Law Sprawl and Water Supply Measures http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bills1-2008oct01,0,6985795.story?track=rss Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- A Question of Balance - Nature, 2008.1002 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/full/455565a.html Postcard from a Tipping Planet - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/environment_1-1.html Please take a moment to look at this great short animation from Leo Murray. Just click to play. It starts out with a polar bear floating on a chunk of ice, playing a violin. Then the narrator hops out and grabs the violin, saying "Give me that. This really isn't about polar bears anymore!" NASCAR, Meet the Electric Chevy Volt - CNN, 2008.1001 http://us.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/10/01/volt.car.nascar/index.html Credit Crunch Threatens US Wind-Energy Projects - Nature, 2008.1001 http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081001/full/455572b.html Great River Energy Headquarters Awarded Platinum LEED Certification - Great River Energy Press Release, 2008.1001 http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreover/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081001005065&newsLang=en Hybrids Trick Out, Plug In - CNN, 2008.0930 http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/30/hybrid.electric.conversion/index.html Invisibly Emptied Oceans - New York Times, 2008.0930 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/emptied-oceans/ Doug Farr, Sustainable Urbanism Superstar - Model D, 2008.0930 http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/farr16208.aspx Your Home's Shade of Green - Gazette, 2008.0930 http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=fa5e29fb-0dbc-4bcd-bfe0-7ec137903846 Harsh Review of Restoration in Everglades - New York Times, 2008.0930 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/30everglades.html Lawmakers at Impasse on Incentives for Renewable Energy - New York Times, 2008.0930 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/washington/30energy.html Living Walls, Smart Homes at West Coast Green - CNet News, 2008.0930 http://news.cnet.com/2300-11392_3-6246820-1.html Princeton's Newest Building a Study in Light - News at Princeton, 2008.0929 http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/24/62A66/index.xml?section=featured Belgium Buys Hungarian Greenhouse Emissions Rights - Reuters, 2008.0929 http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE48S5JB20080929?sp=true Amazon Forest Destruction Speeding Up, Officials Say - CNN, 2008.0929 http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/29/amazon.rainforest.destruction.ap/index.html Leatherback Turtles Return to Coast - KVTU, 2008.0929 http://www.ktvu.com/news/17581960/detail.html The King of Green Architecture - Discover, 2008.0928 http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/28-king-of-green-architecture Riverdale Duplex Relies on Solar Energy for Heat, Hot Water and Electricity - Edmonton Journal, 2008.0928 http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=74137e43-7ebc-4d5f-8908-e486090985a9 Eco Town Dwellers May Be Monitored for Green Habits - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0926 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/26/ecotowns.ethicalliving The $10 Million Light Bulb - New York Times, 2008.0926 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/the-10-million-light-bulb/ Greenhouse Gas Pollution Up Despite Economic Downturn - Scientific American, 2008.0926 http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=greenhouse-gas-pollution-up-despite-2008-09-26 CO2 Flow Speeds Up; Poor Countries Now Lead - New York Times, 2008.0926 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/global-warming/ Designing Fabric Structures - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/index.html The first step in designing a fabric structure is to create a form with sufficient pre-stress, or tension, to prevent it from fluttering like a flag or sail. Lightweight structures with minimal surfaces optimally should have double curvature — a surface that possesses a high-point (positive) curvature along one principal axis and a low-point (negative) curvature along the other principal axis. Green Building Award Winners Named - New York Times, 2008.0924 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/green-building-award-winners-named/ Shower Design for Aging in Place - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances that require users to pick up their feet and step over and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom. 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At stake, says Bentley Senior Vice President Buddy Cleveland, is our ability to provide an acceptable quality of life for all of the people on our planet. http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?080924b_downloads.html Explore, Validate and Convey Your Design Concepts with 3ds Max(R) Design 2009 Autodesk(R) 3ds Max(R) Design 2009 software enables architects, designers, and visualization specialists to fully explore, validate, and communicate their creative ideas - from concept models to cinema-quality visualizations. It delivers powerful new lighting simulation and analysis technology, advanced rendering capabilities, and faster, more integrated workflows with the AutoCAD(R) and Revit(R) software families of products. Download a free trial today. http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?080924a_downloads.html Mac OS X Market Share Cracks 8% - Computer World, 2008.1001 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115988&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 I.B.M. 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