Green Wednesday 2007.0124

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly news on green design and building from around the world.

Richard Fedrizzi, CEO of U.S. Green Building Council, goes on record with the Miami Herald...

"We are now at a point where you can build to LEED standards and it is not one penny more than conventional building. We are more experienced now. We have a proliferation of green building products and services. We now have educated teams around the country who can effectively build these buildings just like any building.

"We are seeing the transformation of the building industry. We would never walk into an automobile dealership without saying what kind of gas mileage does the car get. People are now being educated to the same thing with buildings. How much energy and water does it use? What kind of air quality? How much natural light?"
-- Green Building Is Growing - Miami Herald, 2007.0122
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16503024.htm

And the Vinyl Institute, now 25 years old, predicts a great year
for their favorite building material! More below...


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Recycled Excuses - The Pitch (Kansas City), 2007.0125
http://www.pitch.com/issues/2007-01-25/news/news.html?src=default_rss

Hot Rocks Could Help Meet US Energy Needs - Nature, 2007.0123
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/070122-4.html

CityCenter One Big Green Machine - Las Vegas Sun, 2007.0122
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/business/2007/jan/22/566633186.html

City Library Hopes to LEED by Example - iBerkshire, 2007.0122
http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=22090

Report Has 'Smoking Gun' on Climate - New York Times, 2007.0122
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Warming-Climate-Report.html

Experts: Alps Glaciers Will Melt by 2050 - New York Times, 2007.0122
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Austria-Melting-Glaciers.html

Bluefin Tuna Risks Commercial Extinction, WWF Says - Reuters, 2007.0122
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=UKNews1&storyID=2007-01-22T000908Z_01_L18927513_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FISHERIES-TUNA.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C1-TopStories-5

A Few Less Common Energy-Saving Tools - Plant Services, 2007.0121
http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2007/021.html

Eco-Funding Deal Reached for Canadian Rainforest - AlertNet, 2007.0121
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21402288.htm

Utilities Building Goes 'Green' - St. Augustine Record, 2007.0120
http://staugustine.com/stories/012007/news_4347710.shtml

Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in This US Home - Times of India, 2007.0119
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Health__Science/Solar_power_eliminates_utility_bills_in_this_US_home/articleshow/1319982.cms

Creating Ethanol from Trash - MIT Technology Review, 2007.0119
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18084/

Environmental Benefits Forecast Positive Year for Vinyl - Vinyl Institute Press Release, 2007.0119
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498905.htm

Climate Future Results Show Sweltering Britain - Scotsman Online, 2007.0118
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=97942007

Unsustainable - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0117
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0117/environment_1-1.html

Doomsday Clock to Start New Era - Chicago Tribune, 2007.0117
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0701170083jan17,1,3297438.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

Federal Judge Delays Trial over California Auto-Emission Rules - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0116
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/16/financial/f171405S70.DTL&type=politics

How Richest Fuel Global Warming, but Poorest Suffer Most - ZNet, 2007.0114
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=57&ItemID=11852


People and Places -
Energy efficient mixed-use complex in Wellington, New Zealand
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/people_and_places.html

Product News - Light Emitting Capacitor paper-thin panels from CeeLite
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0117/products_update.html

Classic Home 71 - Howard House, a contemporary green exemplar
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/classic_home.html

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This Week's Quiz -
About how much does one yard (27 cubic feet, or 0.76
cubic meters) of loose rock weigh? About how much does
one yard of the same type of rock weigh when compacted?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
How does rust form?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week -
Asymmetrical bay window in metal-clad bay (WI-081)
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
Built Green Colorado, by Katharine Logan
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0116/environment_1-1.html

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