ECN News
- Kunming honored liable eco-city by the United Nations
- Germany goes super-green with new Hamburg ECO CITY rebirth
- Ken Yeang to design Shanghai eco-city in the sea
- Mott MacDonald lands key advisory role on Tianjin Eco-City, China
- Danish Eco City Proves Waste Management Can Reverse Greenhouse Trend
- Clean Tech Eco City Trying To Rise In Alberta, Canada
- New Solar Pond Distillation System Devised
- Best Way to Reduce Emissions Is to Make Cars Smaller
- Newport to Get WRG Energy from Waste Facility
- US to tighten geothermal drilling rules amidst earthquake fears
- China's first environmental industry fund established
- Ultra Green outlines plan for low-carbon technology powerhouse
- Mayor Boris pledges to cut London landfill waste to zero
- E.U. Seeks to Regain Influence on Response to Climate Change
- Ferry Slik talks about climate change and its impact at ASEM Workshop 2010
- Lilypad, a floating eco-city for climate refugees conceived
- Ecocity 2009: A Sustainable Future for Istanbul?
- Is Sinking, Emptying Venice An Eco-City Exemplar?
- National Development Ministry: Tianjin Eco-city progressing ¡°remarkably well¡±
- Completion date scrapped for Masdar eco-city
Owing to its pleasant climate all year round and location advantages, Kunming was honored the Most Leisure and Liable Green Eco-city in China and United Nations Livable Eco-city in the 3-month Large Selection Activity of Chinese Brands under Boao Forum for Asia that was closed on December 22.
Germany's Hamburg-Harburg Harbor will be home to a sustainable urban development project,"ECO CITY,"blending industry, entertainment and pedestrian life into one super green package. The CITY will be one of the only projects in the world seeking the highest level of environmental certification from three major green building rating systems, including LEED certification.
Architect Ken Yeang has been commissioned to design a 4,000-acre eco-city in the sea off the Shanghai coast.
Mott MacDonald has been awarded a key role on a new flagship sustainable development in northern China, the ¥150 billion ($22 billion) Tianjin Eco-City for clients the Sino Singapore Tianjin Eco City Administrative Committee and Global Environment Facility.
Cities can progress from consuming energy and emitting greenhouse gases (GHG) to actually producing energy while saving on GHG emissions, due to substitution of fossil fuels elsewhere.
Plans are said to be afoot in Canada's Alberta province to build what is being described as North America's "largest clean technology city and ecological community."
Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane
An Oxford University study says the best way to reduce emissions in the short term is a 'drastic downscaling of both size and weight' of conventional petrol and diesel cars.
That Energy from Waste is by far the most popular waste technology for the UK's top waste management companies for landfill diversion after recycling is again being demonstrated by this announcement from WRG.
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is to impose new safety regulations on geothermal energy projects designed to address fears that drilling deep holes in order to access energy released by so-called hot rocks could increase local earthquake risks.
China's first fund for environmental industry was launched Monday in Beijing, aiming to promote investment in the country's environment-related sectors.
An eight-year old UK-based firm specialising in low-carbon technologies has set out an ambitious expansion plan which, if successful, could establish the firm as one of the world's largest green engineering
London mayor Boris Johnson has today outlined plans to turn the capital into a zero-waste-to-landfill city by 2025 as part of an initiative designed to push household recycling and composting rates to 60 per cent by 2031.
Stunned by having been sidelined in the endgame of the Copenhagen world climate summit meeting, the European Union is debating how to regain influence in the fight against global warming.
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Workshop 2010 was held at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) during January 4-7.
Vincent Callebaut, a French-Belgian architect, has conceived and published what can only be described as a really cool floating eco-city for "climate refugees," reports said yesterday.
In the 1940's, remembered one of the speakers at the Ecocity World Summit this week, Istanbul was one of the winners of an international "beauty contest for cities," along with Rio de Janeiro.
"Venice gives us a hint of the truly possible and inspiring pedestrian environments," Richard Register, the founder of Ecocity Builders, wrote a couple of years back.
In a letter published in the Straits Times Forum today, the Director of the Eco-City Project Office under the Ministry of National Development
Masdar, Abu Dhabi¡¯s clean energy firm, has abandoned the final completion date of 2016 for its pioneering £13bn desert eco-city project.