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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...

Go with wind: China to dramatically boost its wind power capacity, again

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...

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...