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More Reflective Roofs and Pavements Could Help Offset Climate Emissions

http://www.igsd.org/
Washington, DC, February 19, 2010
Increasing the reflectivity or “albedo” of roofs and pavements in urban areas could offset greenhouse [...]

Can China Clean Up Its Act?

BusinessWeek by Adam Aston - May 14, 2009
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_21/b4132040805185.htm?chan=magazine+channel_in+depth
Beijing has big plans to curb pollution and start a cleantech industry. [...]

Tax Break Set For Electric Vehicles

February 25, 2009 - Environment News.gov.hk
The First Registration Tax exemption for electric vehicles will be extended five more years to [...]

Tenants Won’t Pay For Green Office

Olga Wong, SCMP - Feb 20, 2009
More than half of grade A office tenants are not willing to lease green [...]

Those Who Dare May Gain

David Chan, SCMP - Updated on Jan 21, 2009
Investment opportunities remain in the mainland property market despite the effects of [...]

Kwai Chung College Gives Green Light To Solar Power

Colleen Lee, SCMP - Jan 17, 2009
A secondary school in Kwai Chung is to go green and use solar energy [...]

Substation Uses 15pc Less Power With Roof Garden, Sun And Wind

Ng Yuk-hang, SCMP - Updated on Dec 26, 2008
Two windmills on the roof of a grey building in Marsh Road, [...]

On Other Matters …

SCMP - Updated on Dec 17, 2008
I refer to the letter by E. Delannoy (Talkback, December 9), criticising the MTR [...]

Degrees of Comfort

SCMP - Updated on Dec 12, 2008
Of the government’s initiatives to get us to be more environmentally responsible, perhaps the [...]

Energy Law Shows Way To Combat Global Warming

David Chan - SCMP | Updated on Nov 05, 2008
On October 1, National Day, an important piece of legislation known [...]