Green Wednesday 2007.0214

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Happy Valentine's Day! Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly news on green design and building from around the world.

This week, Ted Turner tells it like it really is:

"What we need is a moratorium on all new coal plants, on all new carbon-producing energy power technologies, and work on replacing them with renewable alternatives," the billionaire founder of CNN said Wednesday.

Turner also called for urgent action to address global climate change, which he referred to as the "single greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced."

"The biggest danger is we won't do enough soon enough," he said.

Turner was in Houston to speak before the Houston World Affairs Council, along with Timothy Wirth, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who now heads the United Nations Foundation, a charity to help support U.N. efforts formed by Turner in 1998. ...

And though he was in a city where the economy is powered by oil and natural gas, Turner pulled no punches.

"The days of fossil fuels as a fuel are over," he told a packed ballroom over lunch at the Hotel Intercontinental. "It's just a matter of how soon everybody recognizes it."

In a Rush for Renewables - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0208
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4535625.html


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Sustainability Goals Need to Be Taken Up Locally - Scoop, 2007.0214
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0702/S00125.htm

Top 10 Most Common Environmental Toxins - Vancouver Sun, 2007.0213
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=57586947-9466-4fcf-bb1b-2c464dd19e5c

Planners Are Over-Burdening Land in Delhi - Dehli Newsline, 2007.0212
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=221954

China Fails to Meet Environmental Goals - Washington Post, 2007.0212
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021200970.html

Swiss Officials Want to Spread Sunshine - New York Times, 2007.0212
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Switzerland-Sunless-Village.html

Carbon Goes Deep - Nature, 2007.0212
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-3.html

Mayor's 'Zero Carbon' Homes to Set Standard - 24Dash, 2007.0212
http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/16422.htm

Here Comes the Sun - CNN, 2007.0212
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392039/

Wasted Wood: Engineers Seek a More Sustainable Building Material - Exduco, 2007.0212
http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=932

Eco-Friendly School Has Lessons Built In - News & Observer, 2007.0211
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/542158.html

Branson, Gore Announce Climate Change Prize - ABC News, 2007.0210
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1844670.htm

Environmentally Conscious Housing: Who Decides What's Green? - Free New Mexican, 2007.0210
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/56782.html

"Slum Tourism" Stirs Controversy in Kenya - Kenya London News, 2007.0210
http://www.kenyanewsnetwork.com/artman/publish/article_2658.shtml

Going Vertical - Austin Chronicle, 2007.0209
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A444406

A Hydrogen Economy, Hype and Hope - Technology News Daily, 2007.0209
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/5951

Housing Materials Hewing to Green - Newsday, 2007.0209
http://www.newsday.com/features/home/ny-bzhome5086375feb09,0,7358422.column?coll=ny-homepage-mezz

Down and Dirty - New York Times, 2007.0208
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/garden/08dirt.html?em&ex=1171170000&en=ca0e416e52230c03&ei=5087%0A

Dutch May Build Breaker Islands in Response to Global Warming - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0207
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/07/europe/EU-GEN-Netherlands-Water.php


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http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/products_update.html

People and Places -
University of Colorado long-range master plan for a sustainable campus
Marks, Thomas Architects of Baltimore has hired Tom Liebel, AIA, LEED AP
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/people_and_places.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week -
Stacked metal sash awning windows (WI-041)
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
Sustainability Workshop, by B.J. Novitski
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0213/environment_1-1.html

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