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April 1, 2010
Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
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- china, chinagreenbuildingcouncil, climatechange, globalwarming, greenbuilding, greenbuildingcertification, greenbuildinglabel, greenbuildings, greenbuildingstandard, greeningchina, leed, smartcities, usgbc
In a hotel not far from the Beijing Olympic Stadium, affectionately named the Bird’s Nest, the CEO of he U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Mr. Rick Fidrizzi, and the Chairman of China’s Green Building Council (CBGC), Mr. Youwei Wang, signed...
December 9, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
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- buildingenergyefficiency, buildingsector, china, climatechange, cop15, copenhagen, GHG, greenbuildings
After more than 16-hours of air travel I finally landed at midnight in Hopenhagen, the new eponym given to Copenhagen, where UN Climate Change Conference/COP 15 is now underway; some two hundred national leaders have gathered in the hope of reaching...
October 9, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- china, climatechange, construction, copenhagencountdown, greenbudingstandard, greenbuilding, greenbuildings, greeningchina, LEED, shanghai, smartcities, smartgrowth, sustainablebuilding, sustainabledevelopment, tallestgreenbuilding, Threestargreenlabel
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have become history, but the Olympic spirit of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" appears to have been instilled into China's building industry. The 2009 Green Building and Energy Efficiency International Conference hosted by McGraw-Hill Construction in Shanghai...
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...
July 21, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- climatechange, globalwarming, greeningchina, installedpowercapacity, renewableenergy, solarpower, threegorges, windpower
China keeps revising its renewable energy target for 2020--so frequently and dramatically that just when you feel you finally managed to track all the target numbers and to put them on paper, the numbers become history. China first announced its...
June 25, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise
, Greening China
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- greenbuildinglabel, greenbuildings, greenbuildingstandard, greencertification, greenlabel, LEED, nationalgreenbuildingstandard
On this surprisingly steamy, 102-degree day in Beijing, more than 400 green building experts from across China gathered in a hotel to launch the 3-star Chinese Green Building Label campaign. Two years ago, China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development...
June 5, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Green Enterprise
, Greening China
- Tags:
- china, construction, greenbuilding, LEED
Nine years ago, I participated in a series of workshops organized by NRDC and Carnegie Mellon on designing China's first green building (now called the Agenda 21 building). At that time, the term green building was merely known to China...
