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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:43 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.0804 Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends, ArchWeek Green, from the editors of the leading architecture magazine online, brings you weekly sustainable design and building news from around our planet. Andy Revkin at the New York Times has a important podium, as Dot Earth blogger and environmental science reporter for the NYT. And Revkin has done some great reporting. But questions keep coming up about the unreasonable credence Revkin gives to climate change deniers. No such compaints are heard about Joe Romm, author of the factually-reliable and hard-hitting Climate Progress blog. Today, Joe disects the anti-scientific spin in an Andy Revkin article that appears on the front page of today's Sience Times section: NYT's Revkin Persists in Selling Spin from Long-Wrong Deniers That the IPCC Overestimates the Danger from Warming, When the Reverse Is True - Climate Progress, August 4, 2009 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=40140 And from last week, an important report comes out of the U.S. Department of Transportation... Greenwire wrote: Examining about 50 transportation strategies, the report found transportation emissions could be reduced 24 percent by 2050 by acting to change travel behavior and land-use patterns. The emissions reduction hit 47 percent by adding road pricing techniques, ranging from pay-as-you-go insurance to charging Americans for every mile driven. The report found environmental gains from advances in fuel efficiency would be mostly undermined by increased travel and population, making it important to address the efficiency of the transportation sector by investing in public transit, land-use planning and other low-carbon alternatives. U.S. Can Cut Half Its Carbon Emissions from Transportation by 2050, Report Says - Greenwire at NY Times, 2009.0728 http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/28/28greenwire-us-can-cut-half-its-carbon-emissions-from-tran-16812.html Of course, what we need is more like 80-90% percent cuts in carbon emissions from transportation by 2050. But 50% represents a plan that is about halfway there... ever so much better than nothing... Executive summary of the "Moving Cooler" report is available here: http://commerce.uli.org/misc/movingcoolerexecsum.pdf Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- India Embarks On Solar Drive - Nature, 2009.0804 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090804/full/news.2009.774.html South Korea Unveils CO2 Target Plan - Reuters, 2009.0804 http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5734VW20090804 Electric Car Maker Sees Market Heating Up - New York Times, 2009.0803 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/electric-car-maker-sees-market-heating-up/ US Joins China In Climate Talks - Nature, 2009.0803 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090803/full/460670a.html Big Trees Decline in Yosemite - New York Times, 2009.0803 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/big-trees-decline-in-yosemite/ The Vagaries of Federal Efficiency Efforts - New York Times, 2009.0803 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/the-vagaries-of-federal-efficiency-efforts/ On the Road to Recovery - EDC, 2009.0801 http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000634133 a New Urban Model for Aesthetic Big-Box Design - EDC, 2009.0801 http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000633591 'Cash for Clunkers': One Dealer's Tale - New York Times, 2009.0731 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/cash-for-clunkers-one-dealers-tale/ The Food, Energy and Environment "Trilemma" - New York Times, 2009.0731 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/the-food-energy-and-environment-trilemma/ For Wind Turbines Trucks, Trains Pose Hazard - New York Times, 2009.0731 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/for-wind-turbines-trucks-trains-pose-hazard/ Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, Study Finds - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/energy-environment/30energy.html?ref=earth Chile's Fighting Climate Change Is a Role Model for the (Developing) World - Matter Network, 2009.0730 http://www.matternetwork.com/2009/7/chiles-fighting-climate-change-role.cfm Universities Turn to Kindle - Sometimes to Save Paper - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/universities-turn-to-kindle-sometimes-to-save-paper/ Evaluating Obama's Pledge for Energy Innovation - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/evaluating-obamas-pledge-for-energy-innovation/ Californians' Global Warming Fervor Cools - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/californians-global-warming-fervor-cools/ New Jersey Plans Doubling of Solar Power - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/new-jersey-plans-doubling-of-solar-power/ All-Electric Commercial Vehicles: Now Available in the U.S. - TriplePundit, 2009.0730 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/all-electric-commercial-vehicles-now-available-in-the-u-s/ The Wisdom of Crowds - Nature, 2009.0730 http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0908/full/climate.2009.73.html White Roofs Catch on as Energy Cost Cutters - New York Times, 2009.0730 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/science/earth/30degrees.html?em Seattle Lofts - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0729 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0729/index.html At the edge of the Pike Street and Pine Street corridor in downtown Seattle is a public transit-oriented neighborhood populated by mixed-use developments. The 40-by-80-foot (12.2-by-24.4-meter) site for the 1310 E. Union Lofts was an infill (midblock) plot, smaller than a typical single-family residential lot in Seattle. Deforestation Emissions on the Rise - Nature, 2009.0729 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090729/full/news.2009.752.html McKinsey Report Cites $1.2 Trillion in Potential Savings from Energy Efficiency - New York Times, 2009.0729 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/mckinsey-report-cites-12-trillion-in-potential-savings-from-energy-efficiency/ Preservation in Portland - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0729 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0729/culture_1-1.html The recent threat of demolition to Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, one of the city's most visible architectural landmarks, galvanized local architects and historic preservation advocates. But the city's record on historic preservation, in terms of both involvement and actually preserving buildings, is spotty. The Nation's First Platinum LEED-Certified Supermarket Opens in Maine - TriplePundit, 2009.0729 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/the-nation%E2%80%99s-first-platinum-leed-certified-supermarket-opens-in-maine/ Financing Model for Home Renewables Spreads - New York Times, 2009.0729 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/financing-model-for-home-renewables-spreads/ Success Stories in Energy Efficiency - New York Times, 2009.0729 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/success-stories-in-energy-efficiency/ Jellyfish Help Mix the World's Oceans - Nature, 2009.0729 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090729/full/news.2009.745.html A Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions from Deforestation - New York Times, 2009.0729 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/measuring-the-carbon-savings-from-forests/ It's Rainwater to the Rescue If Fire Sprinkler Is Needed at Green Lee's Summit Middle School - Kansas City Star, 2009.0728 http://www.kansascity.com/news/neighborhood/independence/story/1350779.html Buildings Where Energy Is 'Free' - Reuters, 2009.0728 http://www.reuters.com/article/gwmBuildings/idUS174474718020090728 Nissan Offers Sneak Peek at Electric Car - New York Times, 2009.0728 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/nissan-offers-sneak-peek-at-electric-car/ Oregon Eases Ethanol Requirements - New York Times, 2009.0728 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/oregon-eases-ethanol-requirements/ A Quest for Batteries to Alter the Energy Equation - New York Times, 2009.0728 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28batt.html?_r=1 Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country - New York Times, 2009.0727 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/us/27navajo.html?ref=earth New Study Backs UN Panel on Ocean Rise - Associated Foreign Press, 2009.0726 http://green.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090726/sc_afp/climatewarmingoceans.html Why We Need the Climate Bill's Building Code - Reuters, 2009.0726 http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS115730364020090727 Is the Sun Missing Its Spots? - New York Times, 2009.0721 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21sunspot.html?ref=earth Demand on the Rise for Green Buildings - Miami Herald, 2009.0719 http://www.miamiherald.com/486/story/1138219.html New Geothermal Heat Extraction Process to Deliver Clean Power Generation - PNNL Press Release, 2009.0718 http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=383 People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0729/news_1-1.html Perkins + Will in Chicago, Illinois - KTGY Group in Irvine, California - RTKL in Baltimore, Maryland - Shelley Poticha in Washington, D.C., USA - SHW Group in Wichita Falls, Texas - Rafael Vinoly Architects in Cleveland, Ohio... -- * -- Please help us build ArchitectureWeek with your support... 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