Green Wednesday 2008.1015

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

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

It is great to note a very timely climate move made in the UK, today:

"Britain will adopt a more severe target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, increasing this to 80 percent from 60 percent, newly installed Energy and Climate Minister Ed Miliband said Thursday.

"The move came against the grain of intense industry lobbying to dilute an ambitious European Union climate change program, including tough carbon caps, at a meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.

"Business lobby groups argue that cutting carbon emissions will add to fuel bills, but Miliband said the costs of not fighting climate change were greater, and would detail next year how Britain would embark on meeting the goal.

"'In tough economic times, some people will ask whether we should retreat from our climate change objectives," he told Britain's Parliament. "In our view, it would be quite wrong to row (pull) back.'"

Britain says to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050 - Rueters, 2008.1016
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE49F55W20081016


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Climate Deal to Help Overcome Financial Crisis: EU - Scientific American, 2008.1014
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=climate-deal-to-help-over

New Apple Notebook Family Greenest to Date - Apple Press Release, 2008.1014
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/new-macbook-family-redefines-notebook/story.aspx?guid={B0E3B902-E909-44D5-989C-2A453B8B9750}&dist=hppr

Rising Temperatures May Dry Up Peat Bogs, Causing Carbon Release - New York Times, 2008.1014
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14obpeat.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin

Energy-Efficient Home Projects Dot New Orleans - WTOP News, 2008.1013
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=773&sid=1496393

Nature and Nurture - Contract Magazine, 2008.1013
http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/design/features/healthcare-design/e3i2fa1158e675263b3d6b08651aab6c616?imw=Y

Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder - Canoe, 2008.1012
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/12/7062746-ap.html

Funds, Too, Are Mining New Energy Sources - New York Times, 2008.1012
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12alte.html?ref=environment

Amazing Indoors - Boston Globe, 2008.1012
http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/california/articles/2008/10/12/amazing_indoors/

In Search of 'Personal' Space - Haaretz, 2008.1012
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028315.html

Global Warming Gets U.S. Political Cold Shoulder - SiloBreaker, 2008.1012
http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_913025284

Why Won't ABC Air That Clean-Energy Ad? - Christian Science Monitor, 2008.1010
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/10/10/why-wont-abc-air-that-clean-energy-ad/

Mayne Warns Dubai Set for 'Ecological Disaster' - BD, 2008.1010
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3124669&c=2

Affordable and Still Green: Sandbag Houses by MMA Architects - Inhabitat (blog), 2008.1010
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/10/sandbag-house-mma-architects/

Sustainable Design Becomes a Mandatory Continuing Education Requirement for AIA Membership in 2009 - AIArchitect, 2008.1010
http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/1010/1010n_conted.cfm

Farmer in Chief - New York Times, 2008.1009
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Pocket IPCC - Nature, 2008.1009
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/pocket_ipcc_1.html

Has Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tipped? - Nature, 2008.1009
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/has_arctic_summer_sea_ice_tipp.html

Ethiopia Signs Deal for Largest Wind Farm in Africa - AFP, 2008.1009
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hnhy_9ZX7TD3X8iNqhONLasX5YSw

New California Academy of Sciences Receives LEED Platinum - CAS Press Release, 2008.1009
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1448224.htm

New York Home Earns LEED Certification - The Building Studio Press Release, 2008.1009
http://www.pr.com/press-release/110071

Flight of the Penguins: Rescuers Return Wayward Birds Home - CNN, 2008.1008
http://us.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/08/rescued.penguins/index.html

Prince Charles Attacks Architects for Making Green 'Gestures' - Telegraph, 2008.1008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/08/eacharles108.xml

Contractors Rush to Become LEED Experts - Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2008.1003
http://- abuse alert -.com/atlanta/stories/2008/10/06/focus14.html?b=1223265600^1711032&brthrs=1

Regina Building Gets Nod for 'Green' Construction - Regina Leader Post, 2008.1002
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=455e134c-39a4-4640-954b-63de117bca9f

"Green Roofs" Flourish in Eco-Conscious Cities - Seattle Times, 2008.1001
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008217805_greenroof05.html


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Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User - New York Times, 2008.1002
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