Archive for July, 2008

Planned Gansu Wind Farm Accounced

Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:18 No Comments

CCTV has uploaded a recent report on a Gansu wind farm that is being planned to be the largest in China, and will put out more energy than the Three Gorges Dam
The report concludes with the statistic that China could have a staggering 1000GW by 2020 installed.

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Post-Olympics: Will China Continue to Green?

Monday, July 28, 2008 1:13 No Comments

With less than a month to go, a lot of international press have focused on Beijing’s air quality, food cleanliness, visa policies, and general foreign friendly clean up. Many in the government have doubled their efforts to make sure the Olypmics goes off without a hitch, and that when foreigners come to CHina to watch [...]

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McKinsey Test: Managing the Urbanization of a Chinese City

Friday, July 25, 2008 10:42 1 Comment

As part of the release of the Meeting the challenges Of China’s growing cities, the folks at McKinsey have put together a fantastic flash based game on managing Chinese cities.
Like Sim City for arm chair urban planners, this can provide one with an our of entertainment

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China to Introduce Consumption Tax on Gas Gusslers

Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:04 No Comments

For a few years now, I ahve been saying that if I were President of the United States I would introduce a sliding sales tax scale that would tie a cars MPG and weight to the amount of tax paid.
Seems only fair given the difference between a H2 and a Prius are so different. The [...]

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Deqingyuan Chicken Eggs

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 23:35 No Comments

As part of the Market Movers Series, the IFC and sustainability have released a profile of three sustainable enterprises they have been working with.  One of them is the Deqingyuan Chicken farm.
Located near Beijing, the Deqingyuan Chicken Farm is being highlighted for its sustainable practices in many areas:
1) Quality of life for chickens
protecting the environment [...]

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Yangtze River Algae Blooms

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:34 No Comments

Las tyear, the story of Wuxi’s algae blooms was still fresh in everyone’s mind, and 3 weeks ago it was Qingdao’s.
The problem is that there have been dozens of other blooms in other locations, and for me one of the things I fear the most is that the water of the Yangtze will see significant [...]

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Volunteers Needed at GIGA

Saturday, July 19, 2008 21:19 No Comments

GIGA: Green Ideas: Green Action

greening the world we make…
Mission statement: We live in a designed world. Everything we make, use and discard has been designed by someone, somewhere. Most of it is unsustainable and designers are the source.
Our mission is to make design green: empowering designers with the right tools to accelerate change.
ACTION TOOLS:
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URBN Hotel: China’s First Carbon Neutral Hotel

Friday, July 18, 2008 22:40 No Comments

Part of the fun of being a “blogger” is “access”, and a couple of months ago I got a couple of friends to sit down in front of the camera to discuss their project, the URBN Hotel.
There is a lot of good discussion here on what it means to be “carbon neutral”, on how an [...]

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Welcome to Cleaner Greener China

Thursday, July 17, 2008 22:40 No Comments

Welcome everyone to Cleaner Greener China.
This is Rich Brubaker, your host, and I would like to welcome you to my new experiment.
This platform will look at products, policies, technologies, businesses, and entrepreneurs who that provide solutions.
Think of it as Treehugger meets iHabitat meets Social Edge meets All Roads Lead to China.
I am looking forward to [...]

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