Architecture & Urban Planning in China: World Bank injects $200 million for China’s urban environment
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a loan to China –$200 million to support the Shanghai Urban Environment Project. Read More…
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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). Read More…
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. The would-be largest wind power station was designed to have an installed capacity of 5.16 million kw by the end of 2010, 12.71 million kw by the end of 2015 and 20 million kw by the end of 2020, said Wu Shengxue, deputy head of the Jiuquan Municipal Development and Reform Commission. Read More…
Living in China: Air Quality in Beijing is… well… depends on whom do you ask
I realize that scientify data — sometimes — tends to skew towards where scientists want to, but this one is quite interesting: Read More…
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: future cities to make small carbon footprint
Even as China undergoes one of the most rapid urban transformations in the world, the Chinese government is promoting sustainable development to curb the country’s growing rate of carbon emissions, a World Bank urban specialist said in Beijing on recently. Read More…
Autodesk and the Clinton Climate Initiative Join Forces to Support the Building of Sustainable Cities
As a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, the most important contribution Autodesk can make to address global sustainability challenges is to provide customers with innovative technologies. A new tool being developed will help cities manage their greenhouse gas emissions levels. Read More…
Autodesk’s Dawn Danby Named One of 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company
Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Program Manager, Dawn Danby, was selected #20 on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. Read the article to learn why Fast Company calls her a ‘mixed martial artist’ of sustainable design. Read More…
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: aiming for 10 million units in vehicle production, sales in 2009
China aims for 10 million units in both vehicle production and sales this year, according to an online government document concerning detailed automobile support package. China’s automobile industry is to yield an average 10 percent growth for its production and sales in the next three years, said the document, released on recently. Read More…
China, Technology & the Environment: City in Henan Province to resettle 27,000 for south-north water diversion
Resettlement of about 27,000 downtown residents of Jiaozuo City in the central Henan Province started this week to make way for China’s massive south-to-north water diversion program, the provincial water diversion office said Friday. Resettlement is scheduled to finish at the end of September, when work on the trunk channel of the central route will start. Read More…
Jaime Lerner’s “Sing a song of sustainable cities” talk at TED
Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape. Read More…
