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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:10 am    Post subject: ArchWeek Green 2009.1027 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. As the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works opens its hearings on the climate bill (links below), CNN releases a poll showing independents in favor of the draft bill's cap-and-trade approach to limiting large-source greenhouse gas emissions. "Sixty percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say they favor 'cap and trade,' a Democratic sponsored plan in which the federal government would limit the amount of greenhouse gases that companies could produce in their factories or power plants. Thirty-seven percent oppose the proposal, which would penalize companies that exceed greenhouse gas limits with fines or by making those businesses pay money to other companies that producer smaller amounts of pollution. "The poll also suggests a partisan divide, with three in four Democrats backing the proposal and nearly six in 10 independents on board as well, but only four in 10 Republicans supporting 'cap and trade.'... "'The support of independents will be crucial to any cap and trade proposal,' [says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland]. 'Independents may not be red or blue, but they appear to be green. Earlier polls indicate that Independents believe in global warming and believe that the government can take steps to curtail the problem.'" CNN Poll: 6 in 10 Back 'Cap and Trade' - CNN, 2009.1027 http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/27/cnn-poll-6-in-10-back-cap-and-trade/ Also this week, new peer-reviewed research findings add important weight to the growing mountain of evidence against biofuels as an easy route to maintaining liquid-fuel-based lifestyles. "Two papers in Science yesterday have poured cold water on the promise of second generation biofuels. "Biofuels derived from the cellulosic, woody parts of plants are not having their greenhouse gas emissions properly accounted for, says Jerry Melillo from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Melillo's study suggests that changes in the way land is used, as a consequence of growing crops for biofuels, is not taken into account, and if it were then those biofuels would be shown to actually cause more greenhouse gases to be released than fossil fuels.... "In a related policy forum article, Timothy Searchinger from Princeton University and a bunch of colleagues point out flaws in the ways that carbon emissions are counted for cap-and-trade schemes in both Europe and the US. "They say that the assertion that fuels made from biomass can be counted as carbon neutral is wrong. 'Harvesting existing forests for electricity adds net carbon to the air,' the report says. 'If bioenergy crops displace forest or grassland, the carbon released from solid and vegetation, plus lost future sequestration, generates carbon debt, which counts against the carbon the crops absorb.'" Biofuel Woes - Climate Feedback (Nature blog), 2009.1023 http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/10/biofuel_woes_1.html Senate Hearings on Climate Bill Underway on Tuesday... Background at Climate Progress, 2009.1026 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=45849 Link to Live and Archived Hearing Video: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Choose Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week -------------------------------------------------------- Nature: "Dynamic thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet ocean margins is more sensitive, pervasive, enduring and important than previously realized" - Climate Progress, 2009.1026 http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=45860 As Sea Levels Rise, Dutch See Floating Cities - New York Times, 2009.1026 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/as-sea-levels-rise-dutch-see-floating-cities/ Statisticians Reject Global Cooling - AP at Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2009.1026 http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html Of Alberta's Oil Sands and 'Harmonizing' Canadian and U.S. Climate Policy - New York Times, 2009.1026 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/of-albertas-oil-sands-and-harmonizing-canadian-and-us-climate-policy/ Polar Bears vs. Development in Alaska - New York Times, 2009.1026 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/polar-bears-vs-resource-development-in-alaska/ SOM Wins Competition to Create Beijing's Sustainable City Center - Inhabitat (blog), 2009.1026 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/26/som-wins-competition-to-create-beijings-sustainable-city-center/ Feud Continues between Wood Certifiers - New York Times, 2009.1026 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/eco-friendly-wood-certifiers-continue-feud/ Blu Homes Completes Eco-Chalet in Colorado - ENN, 2009.1026 http://www.enn.com/business/article/40629 Campaign Against Emissions Picks Number - New York Times, 2009.1025 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/science/earth/25threefifty.html Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to Cushion the Impact on Industry - New York Times, 2009.1025 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/politics/25climate.html Telling the Whole Story on Global Warming - Sen. Boxer at Huffington Post, 2009.1025 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer/telling-the-whole-story-o_b_333290.html Countdown to Copenhagen - Nature, 2009.1024 http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/10/countdown_to_copenhagen.html Conservationists Laud Poland's Move to Re-Route Controversial Motorway - Guardian Unlimited, 2009.1023 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/23/conservation-poland-motorway Study Sees Solar Costs Declining - New York Times, 2009.1023 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/study-sees-solar-costs-declining/ Europe Is Divided over Climate Payments - New York Times, 2009.1023 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/europe-is-divided-over-climate-payments/ Test Driving the Electric Ford Focus - New York Times, 2009.1023 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/test-driving-the-electric-ford-focus/ Food Advocates Envision Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Farms - New York Times, 2009.1023 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/food-advocates-envision-rooftop-gardens-and-vertical-farms/ A Design That's a Teaching Tool - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2009.1023 http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20091023_Changing_Skyline__A_design_that_s_a_teaching_tool.html Fill It Up with Electricity, Please - New York Times, 2009.1022 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/automobiles/autospecial2/22ELECTRIC.html Palmdale Parking Lots to Double as Power Plants - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1021 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wind-farms21-2009oct21,0,5733849.story Atlanta Botanical Garden Completes $55 Million Green Expansion - Hospitality Design, 2009.1021 http://www.hdmag.com/hospitalitydesign/content_display/industry-news/e3i6ee2d582b260f7365b9abcaa56987dd1 Climate: When the Ice Melts - Nature, 2009.1021 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091021/full/4611042a.html Radical Green - Metropolis, 2009.1021 http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20091021/radical-green We Can't Ignore Climate Change - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1021 http://www.archweek.com/2009/1021/environment_1-1.html At a Clean Energy Economy Forum at the White House on October 7, 2009, J. Wayne Leonard, the chairman and CEO of Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company based in New Orleans, spoke about the urgency of addressing climate change. - Editor High Tension over Big Timber - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1021 http://www.archweek.com/2009/1021/news_2-1.html Late in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. The floods caused massive erosion of mountain habitat and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber - much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner. 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