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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2008.1110 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. Our most recent Nobel Peace Prize winner in U.S. politics states it well, again, in this opinion piece in the New York Times... "Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis." The Climate for Change, by Al Gore - New York Times, 2008.1109 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- The President and the Planet, on a Budget - New York Times, 2008.1105 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-president-and-the-planet/?ref=earth Washington State Penitentiary Expansion Earns LEED Silver Certification - Contract Magazine, 2008.1105 http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/news/e3i2366138689b4ccf357069db937e5f3e8 What Obama's Win Means for Science - Nature, 2008.1105 http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081105/full/news.2008.1209.html Cathedral of Light, Oakland, California - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1105 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1105/design_1-1.html The soaring Cathedral of Christ the Light designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has transformed an old retail and commercial district in Oakland, California, into a vital sacred and civic gathering place. At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - New York Times, 2008.1105 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/05garage.html California Renewable-Energy Initiatives Defeated - New York Times, 2008.1105 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/california-renewable-energy-initiatives-tank/ Must Skyscrapers Be Bird-Killers? Not Necessarily - Chicago Tribune, 2008.1104 http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/11/it-was-a-treat.html Builder Opens Green Home to Public - 27east, 2008.1104 http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=177689 Scores Dead in Honduras Flooding - IOL, 2008.1103 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20081103083554757C497242 Affordable Housing That's 'Green' - Hartford Courant, 2008.1103 http://www.courant.com/business/hc-410asylum1103.artnov03,0,2875606.story Flooding in Yemen - AlertNet, 2008.1103 http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/satelliteimages/122571680747.htm When Green Is Not Enough - Hartford Courant, 2008.1102 http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-plclangdon1102.artnov02,0,1846849.story Gulf Petrodollars Help UK Go Green - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1102 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/02/green-energy-oil-saudi-arabia When All-Wheel Drive Is Literally True - New York Times, 2008.1102 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/automobiles/autospecial2/30paris.html?ref=earth Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers the Smog That Killed 20 - New York Times, 2008.1102 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/us/02smog.html?ref=earth Hanoi Suffers as Vietnam Flood Toll Rises to 55 - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.1102 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvgcTA4HBUHko9a5uZWkwb0vWyRQ Efficiency's Mark: City Glitters a Little Less - New York Times, 2008.1102 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/02lights.html?ref=earth A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt - New York Times, 2008.1102 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/business/02wind.html?ref=earth Judge Kills Mayor'S Try at Greening Taxi Fleets - New York Times, 2008.1101 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/nyregion/01taxis.html?ref=earth Is LEED Set to Take Off? - Indianapolis Star, 2008.1101 http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/BUSINESS/811010411/1003/BUSINESS Climate Change: Faster, Stronger, Sooner - World Wildlife Fund (PDF), 2008.1030 http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_science_paper_october_2008.pdf Google's Green Agenda Could Pay Off - New York Times, 2008.1028 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/technology/internet/28google.html?ref=earth Australia's Stern Review Warns of Runaway Global Warming - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1027 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/27/climate-change-australia Study: Water-Vapor Feedback Is "Strong and Positive" - Climate Progress (blog), 2008.1026 http://climateprogress.org/2008/10/26/study-water-vapor-feedback-is-strong-and-positive-so-we-face-warming-of-several-degrees-celsius/ Prindle Institute Nets 'Outstanding Indiana Architecture Award' - DePauw University News, 2008.1026 http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=22373 People and Places by Nancy Novitski Gary Shoemaker Architects in New York, New York - FARO Architecten in Amsterdam, Netherlands - L2M in Baltimore, Maryland - Kyu Sung Woo Architects in Cambridge, Massachusetts - BNIM in Greensburg, Kansas - Perkins Eastman in Boston, Massachusetts... ... short stories continue online: http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/1105/news_1-1.html -- * -- Save carbon - Switch to ArchitectureWeek! ** https://archweek.securesites.com/subscribe.html Product News - Solar Water Heating from Velux(R) http://www.archweek.com/2008/1105/products_update.html ==================================================================== Tools and Downloads -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor this ArchWeek special section and build your brand: http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?081105_notes_tools_sponsor ECOTECT Download a free trial of Autodesk(R) Ecotect(TM) software and create more sustainable building designs. 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