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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
- Tags:
- 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
- Tags:
- 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
- Tags:
- 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
- Tags:
- 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 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...