China will be boosting its installed wind energy capacity from last year to a record 19.81 million kilowatts as the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter is trying to switch their power grid to gain cleaner energy sources. The National Energy Administration said that wind farms has produced 153 billion kilowatts hours of electric power in [...]
The State Council released its plans for energy use with a commitment to cap annual coal consumption at 4.2 billion tons in seven years which is up from 3.61 billion tons last year. Based on a detailed action plan for the nation’s energy development the council also pledged to further boost exploration for its oil [...]
The garbage sorting legislation will be holding a hearing tomorrow and are inviting participants ranging from the city political advisers, representatives of property management companies and residents. The legislation is to follow up on the practice of classifying garbage collection during fixed periods of time which is intended to further reduce garbage and increase resource [...]
The city is planning to add around 300,000 square meters of vertical gardening or plants that are grown on rooftops or on walls in the next three years. based on the city environmental plan the vertical gardening is only 1 percent of the city’s total area and according to the Shenzhen International Garden and Flower [...]
China will be embarking on its sixth Arctic expedition on July 11 from Shanghai to study the North Pole and how the climate changes in the region is affecting the world. Around 65 scientists will be taking part of the 76 day expedition. This will be the sixth trip that China will be making into [...]
Out of the 280 major cities in China, Shenzhen was named one of the healthiest cities among all of them. This was based on a green paper that was studied and released by the research center of the Social Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The city tops the list based on its [...]
An industrial park with sustainable buildings will open its doors in Guanlan, Longhua New Area for the second half of this year. The 200,000 square meter environmentally friendly buildings have met BREEAM the leading environmental standards and is part of a cooperative project between the Britain based BRE Group, the University of Nottingham and with [...]
As efforts in looking for a cleaner environment is creating a huge market for the waste management sector, a solid waste management fair will be having an exhibition in Shenzhen in July 2015, the fair which started in Singapore is slowly making its way to China. When the fair started in June 2012 in Singapore, [...]
The four faced landmark clock tower of Hualian Building on Shennan Road Central will undergo an 80 day renovation which started last Saturday. The clock tower which was built in 1980 measure around 8.4 meters on each side and is said to be the largest clock tower in Asia after its completion in 1988. The [...]
The most significant inhibitor in the market is still economic, as prices for Green Building Materials are still higher than the market. However, new processes and technologies are now entering the market that may provide performance, energy and material efficiency and price. Just as Australia’s Vecor Building Systems has demonstrated the production of Green ceramic [...]
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