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Steven Holl Unveils Huge Green Complex in China
At a time when few big name architecture firms are building green in China, Steven Holl Architects is working on a few LEED-seeking projects: the sustainability-minded Linked Hybrid housing complex in Beijing, the mixed-use Vanke Center in Shenzhen,
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In China, Winning Girls and Glory -- Without a Car
China's Green Brothers (John Romankiewicz and Zhao Xiangyu) are on a mission to expose the upside of China's environmental challenge through video podcasts. Their first three episodes (including this one we covered on recycling) were informative but
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China and Africa and Us
As Steven Spielberg's withdrawal from Beijing's Olympics reminds us, China's resource interests in Africa are tied up in blood. But China's material hunger hasn't just protected unsavory governments. It's driven up the price of resources like oil and
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Must See: China's Driving Dream and Its $6000 Car
As this recent must-see National Geographic documentary on driving in China reminds us (part 1 is above, the rest below), China has fallen head over heels for the car. Attached though I am to my Forever bike, I can almost see why: A bustling Chinese
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The Water Cube, Bubble-Clad Olympic Wonder
It looks blue, but it's green, and it's here. As big, eye-catching Olympics architecture goes, nothing may be as sustainable as the Beijing National Aquatics Center, or Water Cube, the latest cutting-edge building to open on the enormous construction
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Amidst A Cloud of Suspicious Data, China Vows To Find Sources of Pollution
China has announced it will begin a national survey of pollution sources in February, and not a moment too soon. Two weeks ago, Beijing saw its skies turn murky brown in one of the worst pollution weeks in recent history, and some 32 weeks away from
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China Launches Crackdown on Plastic Bags
The notice that appeared on the website of China's State Council yesterday came as a welcome surprise: Starting in June, all shops will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags. Meanwhile, super-thin bags have been banned. Consumers are being asked
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Carrot and Stick Power: Hong Kong Electricity Profits Linked to Pollution
In a move that could revolutionize how China prices electricity -- and cuts its toxic coal-fired pollution -- Hong Kong set new regulations on Monday that partly links the city's two power companies' permissible rates of return to how much pollution
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Beijing Switching Over to Cleaner Euro IV Fuel Standard as EU Considers Euro VI
In an effort to clean up Beijing's murky skies ahead of the Olympic Games, Chinese officials have decided to phase in a cleaner motor fuel - conforming to the Euro IV standard - over the next 2 months while keeping gasoline prices unmoved. Starting
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China's Newest Anti-Pollution Weapon: A Map
China’s air pollution is thought to kill 460,000 a year, the World Bank reported this year, and it’s no secret what the major cause is (it’s largely coal). But China’s environmental police face an uphill battle finding and fining factories and power
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In China, Recycling by Tricycle
Back home in the U.S., recycling relies heavily on a system of government initiatives, eco-awareness and slight shifts to our behavior so that we toss our trash into the right bin. But in China, recycling has become second nature without so much as
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Beijing Wants Your Designs For a New Solar Power Tower
Already home to its own large windfarm, and the host city of the 2008 "Green" Olympics, Beijing is looking for a smart design for the central solar tower of Asia's first ever solar power plant. The 100-meter-plus tower will receive focused solar energy
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Water, Clean Coal Focus at Beijing's Clean Tech Conference
You would be hard pressed to find a venture capital conference with more gold-rush excitement than Cleantech, which I visited this week in Beijing (well, some industries might be hotter). Grizzled Silicon Valley venture capitalists brushed shoulders
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China Launches $3 Billion Fund For Clean Projects
In China, the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) -- which allows industrialized countries to offset their carbon emissions by investing in projects that cut emissions in developing countries -- is a boon for green companies, both domestic ones and
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Private Bike Rental Scheme Rolls Out in Beijing
Though the bicycle in Beijing has slowly been going the way of the city's historic districts, with cars veering (figuratively and literally) into the city's luxurious bike lanes, the bell has not yet tolled on the two wheeled institution. Though
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To Get Rich (Smartly) Is Glorious: 'Conservation' at China's 17th Communist Party Congress
(We will) promote a conservation culture by basically forming an energy- and resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly structure of industries, pattern of growth and mode of consumption... Awareness of conservation will be firmly established in
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The World's Newest (and Cheapest) Subway: Beijing's Line 5
These days, given costs and land development, it takes a stretch of the imagination to imagine adding a new subway line to most cities in the world (consider New York's perennial attempt), certainly not while also slicing a third off the cost of a
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Agrilandia: Italian Organic Farming in China
Beijing parents who belong to the urban migration in China have found an opportunity to bring their children back to the land. On 17 hectares east of Beijing Capital International Airport, the Agrilandia Italian Farm opens its doors to visitors who
