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China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: energy security pushes China into Wind Power
The Chinese government recently upgraded its wind installation capacity target for 2020 to 150 gigawatts from 100 gigawatts, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20% for accumulated wind-generation capacity, according to analysts Min Li and Wendy Wang at Yuanta Research {...]
Posted in China, innovation, trends Also tagged analyst, Asia, California, China, Chinese Government, Construction, economics, electricity, energy, engineer, engineering, innovation, natural gas, Paris, population, Regions, renewable energy, Report, technology, Wind power, Yuan 1 Comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009
The annual selection of China's top 10 fast-developing cities was held by the China International Urbanization Development Strategy Research Committee to illustrate the rate of China's urbanization [...]
Posted in China, trends Also tagged architect, architecture, Beijing, China, Development, Economy, income, Industrial, Infrastructure, Insurance, location, Marketing, mayor, population, Report, Shanghai, Statistics, Tianjin, Urban area, Urban Planning, Urbanization Leave a comment
Autodesk Software Core to Realization of James Cameron’s Creative Vision for “Avatar”
From start to finish, software from Autodesk, Inc. , played a pivotal role in helping James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment pioneer new methods of virtual moviemaking, for Cameron's history-making motion picture "Avatar" [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation Also tagged animation, Autodesk, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Avatar, Carl Bass, digital technology, entertainment, Game, James Cameron, software, Storytelling, technology, visual effects 1 Comment
China, Technology and the Environment: power consumption up nearly 6% in 2009
China's power consumption in 2009 rose 5.96 percent to 3,643 billion kilowatt hours, the National Energy Administration (NEA) announced recently [...]
China, Technology and the Environment: Chinese National Energy Commission is established
China has established the National Energy Commission for better coordination in formulating energy strategy and development planning, said an announcement released by the General Office of the Chinese State Council recently [...]
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Watch Rachel Armstrong’s “Architecture that repairs itself?” talk at TED
Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too [...]
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Autodesk creates game to raise Green Building awareness
Play the "RetroFits" game and help raise awareness about the benefits of better, greener buildings [...]
China, Technology, Development and the Environment: Photographer Lu Guang’s “Pollution in China”
To give us some perspective on the massive social and economic impact of pollution throughout China, Shanghaiist turned to photographer Lu Guang's "Pollution in China" project. Lu won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from the Asia Society in New York. His project documents families, farmers, industrial districts, rivers, the countryside, cancer patients, children; anyone and everything affected by pollution across China [...]
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Autodesk open-sources carbon accounting method
Autodesk is making a revised method for tracking greenhouse gas emissions available for free to other companies [...]
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Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution