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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:23 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.0430 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. This week we ask, with the expert help of ArchiectureWeek correspondent Christine MacDonald, "What would you call a green building standard that, on balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform more than help? Quote: Michael Luzier, president of the NAHB Research Center, a subsidiary of the homebuilders trade association, says his organization was responding to concern among homebuilders that LEED was gaining too much momentum. "It was creating cachet at the legislative level. Builders felt it wasn't fair" that they hadn't had more of a say in developing the LEED standard, Luzier says. But for Jason Grant, an architect and green building consultant in Sebastopol, California, and others who have spent years cultivating in the blossoming green building market, the NAHB's "green" forays are part of a wider effort by mainstream builders to confuse consumers and co-opt the movement. Green or Greenwashed? - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/environment_1-1.html Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Solar Tech: Not Just on the Roof Anymore - New York Times, 2009.0430 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/business/businessspecial2/30solar.html Mysterious industry front-group affiliated with Ken Lay's former speechwriter launches anti-Waxman-Markey ads with phony MIT cost figures - Climate Progess (blog), 2009.0430 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=33234 Chu Promises Speedier Funding for Renewable Energy Projects - New York Times, 2009.0430 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/chu-pomises-speedier-funding-for-renewable-energy-projects/ LEED at Rock Row - New York Times, 2009.0430 http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/seeing-things-taking-the-leed-at-rock-row/ Wilkins ice shelf collapse continues - Nature Climate Feedback (blog), 2009.0429 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=33083 Noted Architect Advocates Green Buildings - Manila Bulletin, 2009.0428 http://mb.com.ph/articles/203969/noted-architect-advocates-green-buildings Real Estate Professionals Seek Green Building Education. - ENN, 2009.0428 http://www.enn.com/business/article/39797 Espionage and the 'Nuclear Renaissance' - New York Times, 2009.0428 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/espionage-and-the-nuclear-renaissance/ China's Greener Future? - Nature, 2009.0428 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090428/full/news.2009.413.html Climate Scientist Fired for Talking to Media - Nature, 2009.0428 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090428/full/news.2009.410.html Gore to Blackburn: "You Don't Know Me" - New York Times, 2009.0427 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/gore-to-blackburn-you-dont-know-me/ -- * -- RedEye ARC produces 3D scaled replica models of residential and commercial buildings. 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Because the models are built from the bottom up, details such as stone, tile, appliances, and fixtures are possible, helping architects to easily communicate designs to their clients. http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?090422_redeye -- * -- The Green House of the Future - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0427 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050414436548553.html Using Nuclear Power to Extract Oil? - New York Times, 2009.0427 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/using-nuclear-power-to-extract-oil/ Home Green Home: Affordable Efficiency? - New York Times, 2009.0427 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/home-green-home-affordable-efficiency/ Cement Makers Decry Emissions Rules - New York Times, 2009.0427 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/cement-makers-decry-emissions-proposal/ California Fuel Move Angers Ethanol Makers - New York Times, 2009.0424 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/california-fuel-move-angers-ethanol-makers/ City Plans to Make Older Buildings Refit to Save Energy - New York Times, 2009.0422 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/science/earth/22green.html?_r=1&ref=earth Darling Presents First "Carbon Budget" - Financial Times, 2009.0422 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d976eaa-2f3d-11de-b52f-00144feabdc0.html Green or Greenwashed? - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/environment_1-1.html What would you call a green building standard that, on balance, tends to interfere with environmental reform more than help? ASU Polytechnic Green - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0422 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0422/index.html The new academic complex on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University (ASU) was built to withstand the insistent, erosive forces of the desert around Mesa, Arizona. An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It - New York Times, 2009.0422 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/22flint.html?_r=1&th&emc=th World's Major Rivers 'Drying Up' - BBC News, 2009.0421 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8011497.stm Catholic Coalition Seeks to Influence Outcome of Climate-Change Bill - Catholic News Service, 2009.0421 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901812.htm EPA Honors Northern California Environmental Heroes - Imperial Valley News, 2009.0417 http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5229&Itemid=1 People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0422/news_1-1.html Lord, Aeck & Sargent, with Prescott Muir Architects and Architectural Nexus in Salt Lake City, Utah - Wallace Roberts & Todd in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Stanley Tigerman in Skokie, Illinois - Alliance Architects in Arlington, Texas - Arquitectonica in Singapore, Singapore - Standard in Los Angeles, California - NBBJ in Bucheon, South Korea - RMJM in Trenton, New Jersey... -- * -- Please help us build ArchitectureWeek with your support... 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In addition to "all on/all off," the utility allows you to separate specific kinds of lights. Free download. http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?090422a_downloads.html Sustaining Infrastructure White Paper from Bentley Systems Creating a sustainable world through infrastructure requires addressing three interrelated and complex issues: sustaining society, sustaining the environment, and sustaining the infrastructure professions. 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?090422b_downloads.html Pogue's Top Ten Cocktail-Party Questions - New York Times, 2009.0423 http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/04/23/technology/circuitsemail/index.html?8cir&emc=cir Apple Easily Tops Expectations - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0423 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/23/BUS217781J.DTL&type=tech Personal Technology: Phoning in Data - Nature, 2009.0422 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090422/full/458959a.html UCLA Creates Virtual Model of Historic Temple Complex - UCLA Press Release, 2009.0422 http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-professors-create-3d-digital-88669.aspx?link_page_rss=88669 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ArchitectureWeek Blog Center - industry-wide postings listed live, 24x7... http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/ ArchitectureWeek Jobs Board - a free and growing industry resource http://jobs.ArchitectureWeek.com/ ArchitectureWeek Book Center - 87 architecture-related categories... Sustainable Design and Building Books http://www.architectureweek.com/books/browse.php?category=46 Ecology & Sustainability http://www.architectureweek.com/books/browse.php?category=62 -- * -- "Your digital magazine is the best in the field." - WBW, Petaluma, California Subscribe today - Save trees now! ** https://archweek.securesites.com/subscribe.html -- * -- Green Building Forum http://arch.DesignCommunity.com/forum-22.html LEED and Green Certification Forum http://arch.DesignCommunity.com/forum-30.html Architecture Discussion Forum http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/forum-6.html Architecture Students Forum http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/forum-13.html ArchWeek Classified Ads - Buy/Sell & Services http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/adverts.php This Week's Quiz - There have been advances in many traditional building systems in response to environmental and energy conservation concerns. "Electrochromic," "suspended particle," and "liquid crystal" are terms that relate to technological developments for which traditional building component? http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0422/quiz.html Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz... Many people know that VOC stands for volatile organic compound. Do you know why VOCs have ended up in so many building products? http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0422/answer.html Classic Home 049 - Western-style two-story by Frederick L. 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