Recent projections for future energy consumption assume that natural gas will remain marginal in our transportation mix. But are they wrong?
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Future Energy Consumption: Natural Gas Poised To Increase In Transportation? | The Energy Collective
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For years, China claimed to hold an estimated 50000 rivers within its borders. Now, more than half of them have abruptly vanished. Via Seth Dixon, Steven McGreevy Delete the scoop?
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Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad. Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill. In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12million tons of 'green' waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.
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China's goal is to see carbon emissions 40 percent lower than 2005 levels by 2020. Via Steven McGreevy 
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Booya. And don't they need it. All the particulates from Beijing et al. deposit in Japan. The "does not compute" element is that China has 350+ new coal plants rolling down the pipeline... Delete the scoop?
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For many years, architects and city planners from around the world have been trying to create the green ideal: an entire city built to strict environmental standards- highly functional while still retaining aesthetic value.
Here’s a look at some green building and community design that caught our attention in recent months and may (or may not) become reality in the next several years. Their physical footprints may be large, but by using features such as wind power, solar, rainwater recycling and advanced air quality controls, their carbon footprints don't have to be... Via Lauren Moss, Digital Sustainability 
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This is going beyond Mazdar in Dubai. The reality is that we need to transform existing cities since starting from scratch is rare. We need to retrofit cities more than build new ones, but still it is interesting. Delete the scoop?
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"So in a sense, the Chinese bubble – as much an intellectual and political bubble as an economic one – has burst. As China’s economic deceleration exposes its structural vulnerabilities and flawed policies, the much-hyped notion of “Chinese exceptionalism” – that China can continue to grow without the rule of law and the other essential institutions that a modern market economy presupposes – is proving to be nothing but a delusion."
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Millions of tons of household rubbish painstakingly sorted by families for recycling is being dumped abroad. Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill. In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12million tons of 'green' waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.
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Last week’s announcement by China’s Ministry of Finance that the country will introduce a carbon tax, probably in the next two years, did not dominate the international headlines. Via Frank Kusters, Amanda Ford Delete the scoop?
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Tony’s Farm is the biggest organic food farm in Shanghai, which produces certified vegetables and fruits. But it's more than just a place for vegetable production. The vision is to integrate the consumer and therefore promote a natural lifestyle.
To link the activities of the working people with the visitors of the farm, playze developed a building complex, which combines the main reception, a lobby, (working also for the future hotel rooms) and a vip area, with the new offices and an existing warehouse, where the fruits and vegetables are being packed. The building provides transparency within the manufacturing process. Thus it supports the vision of integrating the visitor and helps to reinforce the consumer confidence in the products of the farm. At the same time the building design is driven by the concept of sustainability, combined with it's iconic qualities, it communicates and promotes the core concept of the Farm... Via Lauren Moss, Digital Sustainability 
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An interesting project that incorporates relevant social issues and educational opportunities within the context of a working farm... Delete the scoop?
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MAD has unveiled plans for a towering village of apartment blocks beside the Huangshan Mountains in eastern China.
Inspired by the topographical layers of the landscape, the buildings will have organically shaped floor plates and will emerge from amongst the treetops on a site beside the Taiping Lake. Via Lauren Moss, association concert urbain, Marion Caillol - MIPIM /MAPIC Press Officer , Duane Tilden 
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As the world continues to experience the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, it is increasingly turning towards China. The outsourced ‘workshop of the world’ has become the world’s great hope for growth, and the source of the capital the West’s indebted economies so desperately need. Simultaneously, and in the United States in particular, commentators and policymakers have increasingly voiced concerns that the economic clout of a communist superpower might pose a threat to the liberal world order. These contradictory impulses – China as opportunity and China as threat – demonstrate one clear truth, exhibited in the Obama administration’s much-trailed ‘Asian pivot’: that China is important. Via James S Bown Delete the scoop?
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