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Unwavering Determination: Low-Carbon Reconstruction after Earthquake

September 30, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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china, climatechange, copenhagencountdown, earthquake, globalwarming, greenbuildings, greencommunity, greeningchina, lowcarboncity, lowcarboncommunity, lowcarboneconomy, lowcarbonreconstruction, reconstruction, sichuan, smartgrowth, sustainablebuilding, sustainabledevelopment, urbanplanning

Ever imagine an airport that serves only one route with only one flight that only operates on Monday, Wednesday and Friday? Welcome to Guangyuan in Sichuan Province, a city with 2200-plus years of history. Situated on a flattened top of...

A Tale of Two Countries: Secretary Chu Spoke on Climate Change at Tsinghua University

July 20, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution , Greening China , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
buildingenergyefficiency, buildinglabelingsystem, china, climatechange, ecocities, globalwarming, netzeroenergybuilding, secretarychu, smartcities, stevenchu, tsinghuauniversity, USChinajointresearch

Two days before Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave a speech at Tsinghua University, the top Chinese science and engineering school where I taught building science 15 years ago, a U.S. Embassy intern sent an email offering seats to the first...

Beijing's High-Polluting Vehicle Phase-Out Plan Seems to be Working

June 19, 2009

Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution , Greening China , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
airpollutionindex, beijing, chinaairquality, greentransportation, highpollutingvehicle, phaseoutplan, vehicleemissiontest

Air quality of Beijing was a focal point both before and during the Olympic Games. After the Olympics, the topic faded out of the media, but Beijing is still working hard to keep the sky blue. According to the Beijing...