Archive for the ‘Greener Tech’ Category

CCTV Clip: Solar Application at Shanghai Expo

Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:47 No Comments

An interesting and informative clip on the use of solar energy at this year’s Shanghai EXPO.

Anyone know if they will continue to use the panels on the Chinese pavilions afterward?

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Green Supply Chain China Survey Results

Monday, February 22, 2010 6:41 No Comments

Last year when preparing for my presentation at the 2009 CHaINA summit, I was given access to preliminary data from a survey that the China Supply Chain council had sent out on green practices.  The council, lead by MAx Henry, has always been (in relation to other industry groups) forward leaning on the issues and [...]

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CBRE Asia Launches Sustainability Asia Newsletter

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 22:08 No Comments

For those of you who are in the real estate/ building sector, CBRE has recently launched their first edition of Sustainability Asia (right click for PDF download), a publication dedicated to all things green about our built environment.
Recent Green Building News, City profiles, Interviews with NGO leaders, and special features, and given this is [...]

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Get to GIGA Event on Saturday

Monday, January 18, 2010 21:55 No Comments

For anyone looking to come down from 30,000 feet to get their hands dirty with Green Buildings, then I recommend checking out this Saturday’s GIGA event (1:00 – 5:30pm).
Full details are at their website (click here), but here is the basics:

Schedule:
13:00 – 13:30: registration and networking
13:30 – 13:45: event introduction and welcome
13:45 – 14:20: case [...]

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

Monday, December 28, 2009 18:52 No Comments

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 the issue of sustainability.
Clip 1: China’s Green Plans – focused on (as the title suggests) [...]

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Cost of Fossil Fuels Versus Renewable. What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Saturday, December 5, 2009 1:20 1 Comment

One of the graphs that was presented at the Copenhagen Business School conference I attended last week was from Professor Andrew Hoffman of University of Michigan.  Covering both Economics and Environment, Hoffman was able to bridge a number of very important topics related to what we view as “common practices”.
… and he had a number [...]

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Beijing Smart Grid Conference: Day 2

Friday, December 4, 2009 10:15 1 Comment

Day two at the Beijing smart grid conference:
After spending much of the first day of the Beijing Smart grid conference discussing the definition and scope of smart grid for China, the second day of the conference was focused on how smartgrid was going to be rolled out, what some of the solutions would be, and [...]

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Beijing Smartgrid Conference: Day 1

Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:33 No Comments

While many in China, and out, have been focused on the impressive speed by which China has been able to grow its economy over the last 15 years, those inside the central party have been focused on ensuring that the economic energy had its energy needs met. Made difficult by the fact that the highest [...]

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China’s Influence on the Economics of Cleantech

Monday, November 30, 2009 0:55 No Comments

While the traditional focus of discussions surrounding cleantech uptake have been largely market driven. That, for renewable energies to compete with fossil fuels, the price per KwH had to be below the going rate for fossil, regardless of what the negative economic, environmental, or political externalities were.   It was what seemed to me an unreasonable [...]

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Cleantech Investments in China Just Blowing in the Wind

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:26 1 Comment

Rarely a day passes without a headline like Al Gore praised China and Japan on their climate leadership, which touts all that is great about China’s commitment to green, and how China’s leadership should serve as a model for others.
It was a recent topic of conversation between myself and an old friend who has been [...]

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