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Citius, Altius, Fortius: China to pursue world’s tallest green building

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...

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

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...

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...