• Top 5 American green buildings.
• Will Americans accept greener hotel rooms?
• Cheap or green: poverty and greenery collide.
• Beijing leads in race for most polluted Olympics.
• Seattle urges deconstruction as means for building demo.
• MIT develops way to bank solar energy at home.
• A new process stores carbon dioxide in precast concrete.
• Dutch town tests ‘air-purifying’ concrete to fight pollution.
• ‘Green’ building codes sprout up across US, SF the strictest.

*WIR = Week in Review; a Saturday showcase of excellent links.