Green Architecture & Construction Headlines 2012.0404

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Floating Architecture - New York Times, 2012.0404
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/ ... hitecture/

A Competitor Emerges for Solar Panels - New York Times, 2012.0404
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/busin ... anels.html

98% of Colorado in a Drought, Say Climatologists - ThinkProgress, 2012.0404
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... tologists/

Scotland Wants to Lead in CCS - UPI, 2012.0404
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy ... 333541787/

GE Boosts Wind Power Portfolio with Oklahoma Investment - Triple Pundit, 2012.0404
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/ge- ... een-power/

Maryland Is on the Verge of Becoming a Leader in Clean, Renewable Offshore Wind Energy - ThinkProgress, 2012.0404
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... nd-energy/

Practices Make Perfect: 5 Aspects of Sustainable Management - Triple Pundit, 2012.0404
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/pra ... anagement/

US Navy Center in Arizona Earns Its Platinum Stars - EarthTechling, 2012.0404
http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/04/us ... num-stars/

California Charges Forward on EVs - Triple Pundit, 2012.0404
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/cal ... rward-evs/

Will the NYC Taxi of Tomorrow Be the Taxi of Yesterday? - ThinkProgress, 2012.0404
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... yesterday/

David Cameron to Make Keynote Environment Speech - Guardian, 2012.0404
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... sfeed=true

UK Government Prepares Blitz of Clean Energy Announcements - BusinessGreen, 2012.0404
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/21 ... ouncements

Five Paradigm Shifts to Enhance a City - Tyee, 2012.0404
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/04/04/Va ... gm-Shifts/

CO2 and Where It Hid in the Last Ice Age - ENN, 2012.0404
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/44224

Socializing Sustainability - Metropolis Magazine, 2012.0404
http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/201204 ... ainability

How Carbon Dioxide Melted the World - Nature, 2012.0404
http://www.nature.com/news/how-carbon-d ... ld-1.10393

Indigenous Peoples Can Show the Path to Low-Carbon Living If Their Land Rights Are Recognized - National Geographic, 2012.0404
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com ... ecognized/

Nine Low-Tech Steps for Community Resilience in a Warming Climate - ThinkProgress, 2012.0403
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... g-climate/

March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by over 35 to 1, Scientists Say Global Warming Loaded the Dice - ThinkProgress, 2012.0403
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... -the-dice/

"Desperate" to Export: A Coal Industry Close-Up - OPB, 2012.0403
http://ecotrope.opb.org/2012/04/despera ... -close-up/

London Clean Energy Talks to Draw 22 Countries - Reuters, 2012.0403
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/ ... P620120403

Is the UK Right to Invest in Carbon Capture Technology? - Guardian, 2012.0403
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/b ... government

Rick Perry Criticises UK Initiative to Influence US Climate Sceptics - Guardian, 2012.0403
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... sfeed=true

"Desperate" to Export: A Coal Industry Close-Up - OPB, 2012.0403
http://ecotrope.opb.org/2012/04/despera ... -close-up/

Birds Sing Louder Than 30 Years Ago to Be Heard over City Din - Click Green, 2012.0403
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/research/t ... y-din.html

Will Electric Vehicle Growth Mirror the - piece of junk - Market? - ENN, 2012.0403
http://www.enn.com/business/article/44217

Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood' - ScienceDaily, 2012.0403
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135516.htm

California's Next Step in Energy Efficiency Legislation: Building Retrofits - ThinkProgress, 2012.0403
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/0 ... retrofits/

Renovating the Present to Build a Greener Future - Laboratory Equipment, 2012.0403
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/arti ... lmenuid=21

Bankruptcies Have German Solar on the Ropes - Spiegel Online, 2012.0403
http://www.spiegel.de/international/bus ... 90,00.html

Competition Seeks Ideas for the Next 100 Years of Parks - Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0403
http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5979

Autodesk Expert Discusses Sustainable Technologies in Qatar's Construction Industry - Zawya, 2012.0403
http://www.zawya.com/story/ZAWYA20120403113838/

Choosing an Energy Avenue - Biomass Magazine, 2012.0403
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/623 ... gy-avenue/

WREF 2012: Ed Mazria to Speak on Architecture 2030 - Renewable Energy World, 2012.0403
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea ... cture-2030

Eyesore or Inspiration? Raleigh's AIA-NC Building - Technician Online, 2012.0403
http://www.technicianonline.com/feature ... -1.2724298

Oil Company Says Gas Leak Costs $2.5 Million a Day - New York Times, 2012.0402
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/busin ... a-day.html

Fukushima Radiation Tracked Across Pacific Ocean - LiveScience, 2012.0402
http://www.livescience.com/19419-fukush ... ocean.html

Not April Fool's: Defense Department to Adopt Green Code and LEED - Green Building Law Update, 2012.0402
http://www.greenbuildinglawupdate.com/

Bright and Airy LEED Platinum School Commons in California Has No Walls! - Inhabitat, 2012.0402
http://inhabitat.com/bright-and-airy-le ... -no-walls/

Architects' Answer to Rising Seas: Floating Homes - NPR, 2012.0402
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =149892244

'Natural Builders' Take Green Building One Step Further - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2012.0402
http://djcoregon.com/news/2012/04/02/na ... p-further/

Greening the Concrete Jungle - RIBA Journal, 2012.0402
http://www.ribajournal.com/index.php/fe ... te_jungle/

Essex Wildlife Trust Visitor Center Taking Unobtrusive Shape - RIBA Journal, 2012.0402
http://www.ribajournal.com/index.php/fe ... _and_seek/

Old Buildings Can Learn New Tricks - Sustainable Business Oregon, 2012.0402
http://www.sustainablebusinessoregon.co ... ricks.html

Innomech Eyes Carbon Neutral Target - Business Weekly, 2012.0402
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/manufac ... ral-target

Passive House Movement Expands into Office Sector - Portland Tribune, 2012.0402
http://portlandtribune.com/sustainable/ ... 1120725500

Global Holcim Awards 2012 - Holcim Foundation, 2012.0401
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T1293/A12global.htm

New York City Planning Passes Green Zoning Initiative - Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0330
http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5975

US Sets New Carbon Standard for Power Plants - Associated Foreign Press, 2012.0329
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 6e4b55.3b1

Nature Deficit Disorder 'Damaging Britain's Children' - BBC, 2012.0329
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17495032