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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:06 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.0819 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. This week in ArchWeek, Christine MacDonald takes a look in depth at the two major competing US sustainable lumber certification programs... and finds some real differences between FSC and SFI: ArchWeek wrote: Before gaining FSC certification, forest managers not only must develop with a plan for maintaining the ecological functions of the certified forests, they must also identify, map, and preserve "high conservation value" tracts that have high biodiversity, are home to endangered species, or play a vital role in the lives of local communities or in the region or country. FSC also requires consultations with indigenous and other local people living in or around the forest. While SFI calls for forest conservation, there are no concrete requirements for community consultations or for set-asides to preserve areas of high biodiversity. There are also no prohibitions on many conventional silviculture practices that the FSC bans as harmful to forest ecology. The two organizations differ greatly in their origins, too. FSC was formed on the heels of the 1992 Rio Summit by a group of environmental groups, grassroots social organizations, and industry representatives determined to do something about rampant worldwide deforestation. SFI, in contrast, was started by the trade group American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), which shaped the rules and managed SFI's payroll, bookkeeping, and other core functions until 2007. FSC Versus SFI - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0812 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0812/environment_1-1.html Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Leaky Building Cost 'Likely to Top $11b' - Stuff, 2009.0818 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2762080/Leaky-building-cost-likely-to-top-11b Climate, Growth and Floods in Mumbai - New York Times, 2009.0817 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/climate-growth-and-floods-in-mumbai/ Ghana Girds for Vagaries of Oil Production - New York Times, 2009.0817 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/ghana-girds-for-vagaries-of-oil-production/ A Hydrogen Power Plant in Italy - New York Times, 2009.0817 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/a-hydrogen-power-plant-in-italy/ Solar Decathlon to Display Newest in Zero Energy Homes - EcoFactory, 2009.0817 http://www.ecofactory.com/news/solar-decathlon-display-newest-zero-energy-homes-081709 USGBC: True Green Leadership - TriplePundit, 2009.0817 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/08/usgbc-true-green-leedership/ Danny Forster's Cool, Green House - My North, 2009.0817 http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/August-2009/Danny-Forster-039s-Cool-Green-House/ Study Links Drought with Rising Emissions - Sydney Morning Herald, 2009.0816 http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/study-links-drought-with-rising-emissions-20090815-elpf.html -- * -- Open new doors and gain momentum with new University of Massachusetts Amherst GREEN classes and programs: * Online Green Building Professional Development Series * University Without Walls Bachelors Degree Completion Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship * Classes in green building/ LEED certification, sustainability, geothermal heat pumps, and more. For more information, visit: http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?090812_UMassULearn -- * -- NOAA: Warmest Global Ocean Surface Temperatures on Record for July - NOAA Press Release, 2009.0814 http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090814_julyglobalstats.html Energy Leapfrogging: A View from Togo - New York Times, 2009.0814 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/energy-leapfrogging-a-view-from-togo/ As Prices Slump, Solar Industry Suffers - New York Times, 2009.0813 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/as-prices-slump-solar-industry-suffers/ When Money Grows on Trees - Nature, 2009.0813 http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0909/full/climate.2009.78.html Australian Senate Rejects Curbs on Greenhouse Gases - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0813 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/13/australian-senate-rejects-greenhouse-gas-curbs Data Gap on Atlantic Storms and Warming - New York Times, 2009.0813 http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/data-gap-on-atlantic-storms-and-warming/ Exxon Fined for Causing Bird Deaths - New York Times, 2009.0813 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/exxon-fined-for-causing-bird-deaths/ AIA Small Project Awards - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0812 http://www.archweek.com/2009/0812/index.html G.M. Puts Electric Car's City Mileage in Triple Digits - New York Times, 2009.0812 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/business/12auto.html How Green Is Rail Travel? - New York Times, 2009.0812 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/ Will 'Energy Crops' Become the Next Kudzu? - New York Times, 2009.0812 http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/08/12/12climatewire-will-energy-crops-become-the-next-kudzu-16525.html Zogby: 71% of Likely Voters Support House Climate Bill - Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0811 http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/11/zogby-poll-house-climate-and-clean-energy-bill/ Researchers Pry Climate Change Record from Giant Clams - Scientific American, 2009.0811 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-records-geoducks-clams-tree-rings Insect Infestation as Green Architecture Tool - Tree Hugger, 2009.0811 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/insect-infestation-as-green-architecture-tool.php Rebuilding America - American Progress, 2009.0810 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/rebuilding_america.html Homes Go from 'Superefficient' to Zero Carbon Emissions in Europe - New York Times, 2009.0810 http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/08/10/10climatewire-homes-go-from-superefficient-to-zero-carbon-e-3531.html China Starts Building First 10-GW Mega Wind Farm - Budapest Business Journal, 2009.0810 http://www.bbj.hu/?col=1000&id=49751 A New Building Energy Label in the Works, Alternative to Energy Star - New York Times, 2009.0809 http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/08/09/09gigaom-a-new-building-energy-label-in-the-works-alternat-77717.html Coal Lobby Hires Lincoln Strategy Group to Organize Against Climate and Clean Energy Action - Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0809 http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/09/clean-coal-lobbying-fraud/ USGS Report Details "Recent Dramatic Shrinkage" in U.S. Glaciers, Matching Global Decline - Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0808 http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/08/de-icer-usgs-report-details-"recent-dramatic-shrinkage-in-u-s-glaciers-matching-global-decline/ People and Places by Nancy Novitski http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0812/news_2-1.html Perkins + Will in Puri, India - RMJM in Istanbul, Turkey - Corgan Associates in Phoenix, Arizona - Bruner/Cott in St. Paul, Minnesota... -- * -- Please help us build ArchitectureWeek with your support... 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