8 July 2011 – An entertaining and mildly illuminating slideshow of China’s tentative steps into the green building world is revealed by Foreign Policy magazine. Whatever you think of progress to date, the sure thing is that this has got to be... 
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30 March 2011 – China Reform Commission Vice Chairman Xied Zhenhua, spoke at a media conference at the Australian National University, Canberra on climate change today. Following are highlights of the transcript from the office of Federal Climate Change... 
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From the China Daily – 4 October 2010 - NEW YORK – Ming Yang Wind Power Group Ltd, a Guangdong-based wind power turbine manufacturer, priced its initial public offering (IPO) of 25 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs) at $14 per ADS on... 
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Tony Arnel” “China is presently building 2 billion square metres of new buildings each year. According to the United National Environment Program, UNEP, more than 80 per cent of the construction in China is categorised as high-energy buildings” By... 
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By Lynne Blundell In the six years since Melbourne-based LAB Architecture Studio started working in China the sustainability landscape has changed dramatically. Other Australians too have found the country moving fast on its sustainability agenda-... 
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From The Age – 18 August 2010 - The Chinese government last week ordered its most outdated, carbon-intensive cement works and steel mills to shut down by the end of September, told 22 provinces to stop discounting the price of electricity to aluminium... 
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By Andrew Starc 28 July 2010 – Design team Woods Bagot and Buro Happold have launched a zero energy, carbon neutral sustainable development project to be piloted on China’s Yangtze River. Zero Emissions Design (Zero-E) is designed as a new model... 
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Brief – 25 July, 2010 – Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum have agreed to embark on a project to create up to 20 low-carbon model cities using energy-efficient technologies including smart grids and renewable power generation. Announced... 
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The Sydney Morning Herald – by John Garnaut – 18 June 2010 – Sledgehammer policies to curb energy use and upgrade China’s economic structure pose a new short-term challenge to Australian mining industry profits. Chinese leaders... 
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START OF TRANSCRIPT Early this year leading Sydney planner and vocal advocate for planning reform in NSW Julie Bindon joined The Fifth Estate on a mini scouting expedition to Melbourne to see if the Victorians could shed any light on better planning systems. As... 
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From the New York Times -1 February 2010 - According to The New York Times China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even... 
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From the Guardian – 30 December 2009 – Mark Lynas was an eye witness at Copenhagen when China flexed it’s muscle, insulted US President Barack Obama and single-handedly stopped a world agreement on climate change. Here’s what... 
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From the Guardian – 30 December 2009 – Mark Lynas was an eye witness at Copenhagen when China flexed it’s muscle, insulted US President Barack Obama and single-handedly stopped a world agreement on climate change. Here’s what... 
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Part 3 of a snapshot view of China’s sustainability challenge by Australian landscape designer, Chris Miller. In my last piece I talked about the extensive landscaping of the tower block development, Huafa New Town, located in the city of Zhuhai... 
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The demise of a planned eco-city in China highlights it is not just global economic woes, but more often political machinations, that threaten such projects in China, according to a report in The Economist. Dongtan, a project located on an alluvial... 
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By Chris Miller FAVOURITES  – 8 April 2009 - China’s remarkable economic resurgence in the last few decades has seen it become the world’s manufacturer. With the enormous outpouring of exported goods has come a rapidly-expanding middle class... 
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