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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:38 pm    Post subject: Green Wednesday 2008.1015 Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends, Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly green design and building news from around our planet. It is great to note a very timely climate move made in the UK, today: "Britain will adopt a more severe target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, increasing this to 80 percent from 60 percent, newly installed Energy and Climate Minister Ed Miliband said Thursday. "The move came against the grain of intense industry lobbying to dilute an ambitious European Union climate change program, including tough carbon caps, at a meeting of EU leaders on Thursday. "Business lobby groups argue that cutting carbon emissions will add to fuel bills, but Miliband said the costs of not fighting climate change were greater, and would detail next year how Britain would embark on meeting the goal. "'In tough economic times, some people will ask whether we should retreat from our climate change objectives," he told Britain's Parliament. "In our view, it would be quite wrong to row (pull) back.'" Britain says to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050 - Rueters, 2008.1016 http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE49F55W20081016 Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Climate Deal to Help Overcome Financial Crisis: EU - Scientific American, 2008.1014 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=climate-deal-to-help-over New Apple Notebook Family Greenest to Date - Apple Press Release, 2008.1014 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/new-macbook-family-redefines-notebook/story.aspx?guid={B0E3B902-E909-44D5-989C-2A453B8B9750}&dist=hppr Rising Temperatures May Dry Up Peat Bogs, Causing Carbon Release - New York Times, 2008.1014 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14obpeat.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin Energy-Efficient Home Projects Dot New Orleans - WTOP News, 2008.1013 http://www.wtop.com/?nid=773&sid=1496393 Nature and Nurture - Contract Magazine, 2008.1013 http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/design/features/healthcare-design/e3i2fa1158e675263b3d6b08651aab6c616?imw=Y Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder - Canoe, 2008.1012 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/12/7062746-ap.html Funds, Too, Are Mining New Energy Sources - New York Times, 2008.1012 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12alte.html?ref=environment Amazing Indoors - Boston Globe, 2008.1012 http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/california/articles/2008/10/12/amazing_indoors/ In Search of 'Personal' Space - Haaretz, 2008.1012 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028315.html Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder - SiloBreaker, 2008.1012 http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_913025284 Why Won't ABC Air That Clean-Energy Ad? - Christian Science Monitor, 2008.1010 http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/10/10/why-wont-abc-air-that-clean-energy-ad/ Mayne Warns Dubai Set for 'Ecological Disaster' - BD, 2008.1010 http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3124669&c=2 Affordable and Still Green: Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.1010 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/10/sandbag-house-mma-architects/ Sustainable Design Becomes a Mandatory Continuing Education Requirement for AIA Membership in 2009 - AIArchitect, 2008.1010 http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/1010/1010n_conted.cfm Farmer in Chief - New York Times, 2008.1009 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Pocket IPCC - Nature, 2008.1009 http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/pocket_ipcc_1.html Has Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tipped? - Nature, 2008.1009 http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/has_arctic_summer_sea_ice_tipp.html Ethiopia Signs Deal for Largest Wind Farm in Africa - AFP, 2008.1009 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hnhy_9ZX7TD3X8iNqhONLasX5YSw New California Academy of Sciences Receives LEED Platinum - CAS Press Release, 2008.1009 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1448224.htm New York Home Earns LEED Certification - The Building Studio Press Release, 2008.1009 http://www.pr.com/press-release/110071 Flight of the Penguins: Rescuers Return Wayward Birds Home - CNN, 2008.1008 http://us.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/rescued.penguins/index.html Prince Charles Attacks Architects for Making Green 'Gestures' - Telegraph, 2008.1008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/08/eacharles108.xml Contractors Rush to Become LEED Experts - Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2008.1003 http://- abuse alert -.com/atlanta/stories/2008/10/06/focus14.html?b=1223265600^1711032&brthrs=1 Regina Building Gets Nod for 'Green' Construction - Regina Leader Post, 2008.1002 http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=455e134c-39a4-4640-954b-63de117bca9f "Green Roofs" Flourish in Eco-Conscious Cities - Seattle Times, 2008.1001 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008217805_greenroof05.html People and Places by Nancy Novitski Daniel Libeskind in Warsaw, Poland - Charles Correa, with RMJM Hillier and Consiste in Lisbon, Portugal - Callison in Seattle, Washington - Foster + Partners in Saint-Etienne, France - KlingStubbins in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Hawkins/Brown in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom - Ann Beha Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Wiginton Hooker Jeffrey Architects and Holzman Moss Architecture in Cedar Hill, Texas - Meltzer/ Mandl Architects in New York, New York - Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells in San Diego, California - U+B Architecture & Design in Marrakech, Morocco... ... short stories continue online: http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/1008/news_1-1.html -- * -- Save carbon - Switch to ArchitectureWeek! ** https://archweek.securesites.com/subscribe.html -- * -- Product News - WileyCPE.com Continuing Education Fulfill your professional continuing education requirements from the source you trust. 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