Green Wednesday 2007.0418

[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.

In a conversation between Bill Walsh, National Coordinator for the Healthy Building Network, and Dr. Ted Schettler:

"BW: The US Green Building Council recently adopted the Precautionary Principle as one of six guiding principles for the organization. It is the first business association in the United States to make this commitment, and the only group that sets "green" standards that had done so. Why is this important?

"TS: It is important because it distinguishes the group and defines the green building movement as a serious effort to recreate a massive and fundamental sector of the global economy to be healthy and sustainable. The UN's 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development stated that the precautionary approach needed to be widely applied if we were to avoid serious irreversible damage to the earth's living systems. The USGBC's approach is fair, wise, necessary, and ultimately cost effective because prevention usually costs less than remediation with more equitable distribution of costs and benefits."

Green Building & the Precautionary Principle - Healthy Building News, 2007.0412
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/070412schettler.html


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Locally Sourced Materials Can Reduce Emissions - New Builder (UK), 2007.0417
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1935

Earth Day Voices: Traci Rose Rider - World Changing (blog), 2007.0417
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006501.html

Global Warming May Put U.S. In Hot Water - New York Times, 2007.0417
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Warming-Water.html

Group: China Buying Threatened Hardwood - Centre Daily, 2007.0417
http://www.centredaily.com/135/story/71252.html

EPA Chief: Bush Climate Policy Working - CNews, 2007.0417
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/17/4045789-ap.html

Can Seattle Recycle 72% of Its Waste? It Won't Be Easy - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0416
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/311774_waste16.html

June Date for UK's First Top Level Sustainable House - Building Magazine, 2007.0416
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3085018&c=2

Plant My Roof, Stretch My Green - CNN, 2007.0416
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/16/news/economy/green_roofs/?postversion=2007041709

The Power of Green - New York Times, 2007.0415
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html?em&ex=1176955200&en=208ae7c70bd5bc98&ei=5087%0A

China's Yangtze River Extensively Polluted - Reuters, 2007.0415
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T309582.htm

Eden Project Will Show the Perils of a Warmer World - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0415
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057588,00.html

Carbon-Free by the Sea: The Ultimate Green House - The Independent, 2007.0415
http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article2449862.ece

Lean Green Rehab Machine - Chicago Sun-Times, 2007.0415
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/339740,CST-SPT-tuck13.article

S.F. Hopes to Set Example with New Green Tower - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0413
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/13/MNGVFP852Q1.DTL

Prefab Construction: Green or Greenwashing? - Inhabitat (blog), 2007.0413
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/04/13/prefab-construction-green-or-greenwashing/

The New Wave of Energy Efficient Homes - Spiegel, 2007.0413
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,476279,00.html

COTE Top Ten Green Buildings - AIArchitect, 2007.0413
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0413/0413n_cote.cfm

India Set to Check Environmental Pulse - Nature, 2007.0412
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-12.html

GreenDC Week: Ways to Help Save the World - Washington Post, 2007.0412
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041200722.html

Dutch Prepare for Global Warming - World Architecture News, 2007.0412
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=995

House on Red Hill - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0411
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/index.html
"Red Hill is the culmination of ideas and interpretations
we have been considering over many years," says
Botterill. He and Harty had worked under some of
Australia's best known architects and developed ideas
about how to roll modern architecture into an
environmentally conscious building. The result is the Red
Hill Residence, their first major completed project.

Saving the Taj Mahal - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0411
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0411/culture_1-1.html
...Despite this beauty, any visitor to the Taj Mahal, in
the tourist-crowded city of Agra, is quickly made aware
of the building's fragility and the damaging effect
people and air pollution have had on it. The two million
visitors per year must now remove or cover their shoes
before approaching the building to reduce the trampling effect...

People and Places This Week - Fort Worth, New York, Krakow,
Port Aransas, Seagrove Beach, Pyrmont:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/people_and_places.html

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http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0411/classic_home.html

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