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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

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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...continued

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

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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