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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...continued→
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...continued→
July 20, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Curbing Pollution
, Greening China
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- 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...continued→
June 19, 2009
Posted by Kevin Mo in Greening China
- Tags:
- china, energyefficiency, environmentimpactassesment, greenbuilding, greenbuildingstandard, greenhotel, international
When you talk about China, you have to think big, really big. China's Ministry of Commerce just announced that China will try to build 10,000 green hotels by 2012. How big is this goal? China opened less than 400 new...continued→
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...continued→
