Green Wednesday 2007.0502

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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

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Several articles this week highlight the results of air pollution studies in the United States and China:

L.A. Tops List of Nation's Most Polluted - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Polluted-Cities.html

U.S. Air Pollution: Less Smog, but More Soot in East - Scientific American, 2007.0501
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=us-air-pollution-less-smo&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters

Beijing Car Ban Cut Air Pollutants by 40% - China Daily, 2007.0501
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/01/content_864762.htm

And from last week, an estimate that China will surpass the US as the chief producer of greenhouse gases as early as this year:

China to Top USA in Greenhouse Emissions - USA Today, 2007.0424
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-04-24-china-emissions_N.htm


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Harvesting Houses for the Planet - BBC News, 2007.0502
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6612381.stm

Scientists Protest New Reading of ESA - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Endangered-Species.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The Eco-House - Independent Digital, 2007.0501
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/lifestyle/article2484664.ece

Coral Is Dying. Can It Be Reborn? - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/earth/01coral.html?ref=science

Coal's Energy Potential Is an Engineering Challenge Now - New York Times, 2007.0501
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html?ref=science

UN Facing a Backlash on Emissions Action Plan - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0429
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2068075,00.html

Fire Threat to Solar Tile Homes - Telegraph, 2007.0429
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/28/nsolar28.xml

Energy Independence - New York Times, 2007.0427
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/realestate/greathomes/27live_ready.html?ref=realestate

California Backs Lowering Formaldehyde in Wood - Scientific American, 2007.0427
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=california-backs-lowering&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters

Housing Tango - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0425
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0425/design_1-1.html

Components Home - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0425
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0425/tools_1-1.html

Brazil to Split Up Its Environmental Agency - Reuters, 2007.0425
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25297208.htm

RAU Architects Convert Existing Building into Sustainable Office - World Architecture News, 2007.0425
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1022

Bloomberg Draws a Blueprint for a Greener City - New York Times, 2007.0423
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/nyregion/23mayor.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Reliance on Coal Sullies 'Green the Capitol' Effort - Washington Post, 2007.0421
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002128.html?nav=rss_politics/congress

Chicago Housing Complex Wins Green Design Award - AIArchitect, 2007.0420
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0420/0420d_chicago.cfm


Product News - Low-Maintenance Composite Decking from Weyerhaeuser
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0425/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - Chicago, Omaha, Baltimore, Tampa,
Kannapolis, San Francisco, Milan, Princeton, Thiruvananthapuram:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/people_and_places.html

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Classic Home 013 - 'Four-room bungalow', by Frederick L. Ackerman
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/classic_home.html

This Week's Quiz -
It is hard to determine exact numbers, but it has been
estimated that commercial and residential buildings
consume about 65 percent of all electricity used in the
United States and about 40 percent of all raw materials.
These buildings account for about what percentage of
greenhouse gases?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
"Whatever a man does, that is who he is." These words
were posted on a sign over the home of which famous
architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrea Palladio, Thomas
Jefferson, or Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/answer.html


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Weathered painted metal shutter (WI-194)
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0425/contents.html

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