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Watch William McDonough’s “Cradle to Cradle Design” talk at TED
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time" [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, design, economics Also tagged architect, Cradle to Cradle, energy, energy consumption, energy efficiency, environment, Environmentalism, Ford, Green Building, Green Building technologies, Low-energy building, Nike, sustainability, Sustainable architecture, Sustainable building, Sustainable Design, United States, Urban Planning, US government, William McDonough 1 Comment
China, Technology & the Environment: per-unit energy consumption falls 3.35% in the first half of 2009
China's energy consumption to produce a unit of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 3.35 percent year on year in the first half of 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement recently. The decrease compared with 2.88 percent in the first half of last year [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends Also tagged Building engineering, Climate change, Economic indicators, economics, energy, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy emissions, Energy policy, energy use, environment, environmental protection, Financial Crisis, greenhouse gas emissions, Gross Domestic Product, National Development and Reform Commission, pollution, revenue, steel industry, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development 3 Comments
China, Technology and the Environment: building the world’s largest solar power base
China's first demonstration project integrating wind power, photovoltaic power and power storage was recently established in Zhangbei, northern China's Hebei province with a planned total investment of over 8 billion yuan (nearly 1.2 billion US dollars) [...]
Posted in China, economics, innovation Also tagged energy, energy consumption, energy use, environment, Hebei, Provinces of China, renewable energy, solar energy, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, Wind power 4 Comments
China, Technology and the Environment: first 10 million-kw-level wind power station to be built in mid-July 2009
Workers would begin construction on China's first 10 million-kw-level wind power station in mid-July in the far northwestern city of Jiuquan, Gansu Province, a local official said recently [...]
Posted in China, innovation Also tagged electricity, energy, environment, Gansu, Jiuquan, local official, municipal government, natural gas, oil, Provinces of China, Qinghai, railway, renewable energy, sustainability, sustainable, Three Gorges Dam, Wind power, Wu Shengxue 1 Comment
China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: Part II
An energy structure with a low utilization rate, and an economic growth mode with serious, hazardous emissions have posed stark challenges for the sustained growth of Chinese economic society. Faced with such a grave situation in energy saving and emission reduction, more than 6,000 science, technology workers, as well as scientist-turned-entrepreneurs on met recently to discuss issues such as energy saving and environmental protection. Among them were more than 100 members from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the highest palaces for scientific research achievements and engineering progress [...]
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