Monthly Archives: December 2009

All Apparently Isn’t Well in Tianjin EcoCity

So apparently my earlier posts on the Singapore and Tianjin partnership in the Tianjin ecozone were a bit mature.  At first, I thought that as Singapore had successfully brought the Suzhou Singapore Investment Park to market, and the working relationships … Continue reading

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CNN Eco Solutions Clips: China’s drive to be a low carbon leader

Here are three clips from CNN as part of their Ecosolutions series that I thought readers would find interesting as, for no other reason, these are three CNN videos focused more on what is going right here in China on … Continue reading

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Shanghai to Further Subsidize 10 Million CFLs

One of the perks of being a country with a huge sum of cash in the coffers is the ability to make investments in projects like the one that the Shanghai government has just announced. To provide 20% subsidies for … Continue reading

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Who Threw The First Snowball? And Wen?

Following my post yesterday on the tit for tat that was taking place between UK and Chinese press conferences, Mark Lynas’s Guardian article How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room went to press. … Continue reading

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Miliband Starts Post COP15 Snowball Fight. China Pissed

Given the number of post-COP commentaries that are taking place right now, I decided to scrap my own “I am disappointed, but not surprised piece” and move on to the post-COP snowball fight which is now taking place. It is … Continue reading

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Effectively Communicating Sustainability

While many had their eyes trained on the outcome of the last day at COP15, my eyes were reviewing final project submissions from the recent batch of students at Shanghai’s Raffles Design Institute. A school dedicated to all things design, … Continue reading

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Beijing to Raise Water Pricing by 25% to Reduce Use

For a city that has been so aggressive to increase water supplies, I am often surprised that so little is done to reduce demand. It would seem that action is now being taken. According to the Xinhua article  Beijing holds … Continue reading

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Wen Jiabao’s Speech at COP15.

Typically I would not report the work of someone else in full, but in this case I think an exception should be made: Prime Minister Rasmussen, Dear Colleagues, At this very moment, billions of people across the world are following … Continue reading

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IFC Shanghai Built LEED

Was walking through Lujiazui this afternoon and notice this sign in front of Super Brand Mall.  Good to see that in an area that seems to see a new sete of cranes every week someone is advertising they are going … Continue reading

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Does The Average Chinese Person Care About the Environment?

In the lead up to, and in the middle of, the recent Copenhagen discussions the role of China as either the biggest polluter or as the biggest Cleantech investor has been the focal point for many. It is a bipolar … Continue reading

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