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Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean
Next year's Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world's most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But piles of rubbish, dirty surfaces and lack of potties would make a joke of the theme, "Better City, Better Life." [...]
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Newsweek’s Green Ranking Recognizes Autodesk
Autodesk ranked 55th out of America’s 500 largest corporations on its environmental performance, policies, and reputation [...]
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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 [...]
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Living in China: Air Quality in Beijing is… well… depends on whom do you ask
Associated Press has got the news on a recent report which claims that Beijing's air worse than at past Olympics, while Just ten days later, Xinhua News just boasted about how Beijing records best air quality in nine years [...]
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Living in China: Shanghai’s air quality report may add more pollutants
Daily ozone and carbon monoxide measurements may be included in Shanghai air quality reports to meet new standards proposed by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. The ministry wants to bring China's air quality reports into line with international standards [...]
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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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Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution