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Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly green design and building news from around the world.
The leading international scientific journal Nature continues to provide great climate change coverage, this week on the new IPCC report (and I hope they'll forgive the longish excerpt)...
"Attention is now shifting from arguments over whether the world is warming to what should be done about it. And all six-billion-plus on the planet should be concerned, the IPCC's report implies. The people most vulnerable will be those who live at or near sea level, often crowded into cities along the coast. But drought, disease and extreme weather events will also become more frequent around the world, threatening the lives and livelihoods of countless more.
"'No one will escape the impacts of a warming planet,' says Patricia Romero Lankao, a sociologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and an author of the report.
"What's more, many of the effects of climate change are already evident in physical and biological systems, the report says (see map). Regional climate changes are affecting natural systems on every continent, with the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asian mega-deltas among the worst affected.
"The Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability report is the second installment of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment, a summary of the current state of knowledge about climate change. The third assessment was published in 2001. Crucially, this report is the first to link actual data on how natural systems are responding to the amount of warming they have experienced. 'For the first time we are no longer arm-waving with models,' says Martin Parry, co-chair of the IPCC's Working Group II.
Climate Takes Aim - Nature, 2007.0409
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/446706a.html
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports Web Site
United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/themes/climatechange/ipcc/
More related climate coverage:
Buildings Can Play a Key Role in Combating Climate Change - ScienceDaily, 2007.0409
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070407150947.htm
Return of the Dust Bowl? - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402-9.html
Effects of Climate Change Tallied Up - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/070402-10.html
Car emissions are EPA's problem - Nature, 2007.0402
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070402/full/446589a.html
Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Cost of Achieving New Code for Sustainable Homes - eGovMonitor (UK), 2007.0410
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/10271
Saving the Planet Lifts Rents - News & Observer, 2007.0409
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/562155.html
Graduating to Green - Boston Globe, 2007.0408
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/08/graduating_to_green/
Green Homes Ripen - Myrtle Beach Sun News, 2007.0408
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/17045728.htm
Architectural Idealist - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0407
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/07/HOGHVP2AAP1.DTL
'Call a Brick Wall a Brick Wall' - Frontline (India), 2007.0407
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070420005013000.htm
Green Housing Gains Ground - Miami Herald, 2007.0406
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/63842.html
Army Mandates 'Green' Construction - Redstone Rocket, 2007.0406
http://www.al.com/redstone/index.ssf?/base/news/117588700689190.xml&coll=1
Solar Power Breakthrough at Massey - Stuff, 2007.0405
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4017784a13.html
Richard Rogers Pritzker Prize - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0404
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0404/index.html
The Pritzker Prize, one of the world's highest honors in
architecture, goes this year to British architect Richard
Rogers. In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J.
Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said:
"Rogers is a champion of urban life and believes in the
potential of the city to be a catalyst for social change."
Big Ripples - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0404
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0404/environment_1-1.html
Magic in architecture often occurs when the client
presents the architect with clear criteria and formidable
challenges and when, rather than engineer around
obstacles, the designer embraces the challenges as
opportunities to enrich the project.
Architecture: Green and Greener - World Changing (blog), 2007.0403
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006412.html
Product News - Norman Foster Chair, 80% recycled content aluminum
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0404/products_update.html
People and Places This Week - St. Louis, New York, Giljon,
West Hollywood, New York, Boston, San Diego:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0404/people_and_places.html
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Did the Russian revolution during the early part of the
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We are all familiar with the term "spaciousness" as
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acoustic quality and explain how it relates to
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