China

Tian Yi: Masterplan with optimum housing location

Sidsel Overby Hartlev — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:24:17 +0000

Tian Yi is situated in low-lying wetland surrounded by canals and natural watercourses. The master plan for the new neighbourhood is based on three landscape elements: an outer ring, consisting of wetland with dense vegetation, a green inner ring that will function as a play and leisure area and a central sector with gardens and green oases. The neighbourhood will have homes and businesses, offices, hotels and shops. It will have public functions such as the library, schools, day care institutions, a health centre and municipal sport and leisure facilities.

Copenhagen: Climate learning for all senses

Astrid Svane — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:34:57 +0000

The changing climate is often described in the news in terms of scientific reports or political negotiations. Face the Climate, however, wants to present climate change in a specific, contemporary way, enabling children and young people to relate to the issues in their own everyday lives. The journalists and photographers behind the project have visited nine families in nine different countries to tell the story of how climate change is affecting their lives. The facetheclimate.org website went online in October 2009.

Rizhao: Mainstreaming solar energy on city level

June-Catherina Starling — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:17:37 +0000

The city of Rizhao combines incentives and legislative tools to encourage the large-scale, efficient use of renewable energy, especially solar energy. 99% of Rizhao’s households use solar water heaters. In the suburbs and villages, more than 30 percent of households use solar water heaters, and over 6,000 households have solar cooking facilities. Almost all traffic lights, street lights and park illuminations are powered by photovoltaic solar cells.