Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in capital and finance, coal, governance, government, smart grid, transportation, urban planning, wind on Nov 26th, 2008
You didn’t think The Green Leap Forward would go on to celebrate its first birthday (next week, folks! December 2nd!) without commenting on the recently announced RMB 4 trillion (US$586 billion) pump-priming package did you?
Of course not.
The basics of the package is that a total of RMB 4 trillion will be spent by the central [...]
Posted in urban planning on Nov 21st, 2008
Yesterday, The Green Leap Forward took to the road to Tianjin again, this time as part of a US-delegation organized by the US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) exploring the green tech potential of Tianjin. One of the stops was a visit the site of the proposed Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city. Not much more to report from [...]
Posted in urban planning, water on Nov 16th, 2008
China has become an international capital and laboratory for eco-city projects. The unprecedented scale of rural-to-urban migration is creating pressing demands on existing urban infrastructure, but also the opportunity for city planners to create new cities based on more sustainable, and even ecological patterns of development.
Rising from above the fray of the multitude of eco-city [...]
Posted in automotive, biofuels, capital and finance, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, governance, government, green buildings, information strategies, innovation, policy, rural development, smart grid, solar, transportation, urban planning, wind on Nov 13th, 2008
The following is the complete transcript, modified and supplemented for completeness and readability, of the closing speech that the author of this blog (pictured below) delivered on November 11 at the JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum in Beijing.
We are at war. A world war. But unlike World War I or II, this is not a war [...]
Posted in automotive, biofuels, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, government, green buildings, green hops, solar, transportation, uncategorized, urban planning on Oct 4th, 2008
BYD Auto/ Warren Buffet Update. Seems like the investment of Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings in Shezhen-based BYD Auto is not just a bet on electric vehicles, but also on the collaboration between MidAmerican and BYD to develop “rapid charge batteries” for electrical grid systems to serve as energy storage for renewable but intermittent power [...]
Posted in CDM, climate change, urban planning on May 31st, 2008
I am really excited.
On May 10 (incidentally, but fittingly, Pangea Day) at the Xiamen Climate Change Symposium held at Xiamen University in Xiamen City, Fujian, I was introduced to an exciting opportunity for Xiamen City to undertake what has potential to be a truly groundbreaking project.
A consortium comprised by CHORA (an urban planning, architectural and [...]
Posted in governance, policy, urban planning on Apr 18th, 2008
Over the past week or so, I’ve had the privilege to get some high level access to some of the leading academics and government officials in Chinese environmental policy and law here in Beijing. I was an observer at a private high-level roundtable discussion on Chinese environmental governance held at Tsinghua University this past Sunday.
One [...]
