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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: consumption stimulus to extend into 2010
Stimulus policies spurring Chinese domestic consumption will be maintained in 2010, while high sales growth of home appliances and automobiles due to the stimulus packages will not affect consumption, analysts predict [...]
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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 [...]
Autodesk open-sources carbon accounting method
Autodesk is making a revised method for tracking greenhouse gas emissions available for free to other companies [...]
Posted in design, innovation, software, trends Also tagged AutoCAD, Autodesk, Carbon finance, Climate change, design software, Emma Stewart, environment, Environmental economics, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Gross Domestic Product, software, Software development process, sustainability, United Nations, United States Leave a comment
Autodesk AEC headquarters certified LEED Platinum
Autodesk's AEC headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, designed by KlingStubbins and constructed by Tocci Building Co. using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and an Integrated Project Delivery contract, was certified LEED-Platinum last week by the U.S. Green Building Council. The AEC headquarters project was featured last April in a BD+C feature story on IPD [...]
Posted in innovation Also tagged Air Quality, architecture, Autodesk, BIM, Building engineering, Building Information Modeling, Construction, Green Building, KlingStubbins, Massachusetts, sustainability, Sustainable building, Sustainable Design, U.S. Green Building Council, United States, Waltham Leave a comment
China, Technology & the Environment: Emissions cut target “may hurt developing countries’ development”
The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is "unfair" to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]
Posted in China, economics, information technology, trends Also tagged Carbon finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Climate change, Developed Nations, environment, Environmental policy, Germany, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Industrialization, Infrastructure, Kyoto Protocol, Pan Jiahua, sustainability, sustainable development, Urbanization, Xinhua 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 [...]
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Can Autodesk Make Green Building Accessible to the Masses?
Autodesk's efforts on the democratization of Green Building technologies get featured on Fast Company magazine [...]
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Watch Ray Anderson’s “the business logic of sustainability” talk at TED
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce [...]
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Autodesk Extends on Building Information Modelling
Autodesk has entered into a collaboration with Vela Systems, a provider of mobile field automation software for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. The collaboration integrates Vela Systems Field BIM Software Suite with Autodesk Navisworks [...]
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Watch Rachel Armstrong’s “Architecture that repairs itself?” talk at TED