The Chevy Volt Goes to China (In 2011)

Photo: GM Hopefully It’ll Have More Commercial Success than BYD EVs China will be one of the initial markets to get the Chevy Volt PHEV, and today GM is announcing that the first drivable Volt has landed in the Middle Kingdom. “GM has made a long-term commitment to bringing our industry-leading technology to China,” said Kevin Wale, President and Managing Director of the GM China Group. GM delivered two Chevrolet Volts to the Shanghai Expo for use as VIP transportation

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SOM Announces Opening of LEED Gold Tower, Tallest in Beijing

The China World Trade Tower III celebrated its grand opening today, closing the third and most recent phase of the incredible China World Trade Center development. The 81-story mixed-use tower is now Beijing’s tallest tower, hosting a hotel, offices, restaurants, meeting and commercial space, as well as a street level pedestrian friendly frontage. And if being the tallest wasn’t enough, the stunning new structure designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is also an energy efficient eco-tower aiming for the title of LEED Gold.

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Will Coda’s Upstart Electric Car Outperform the Nissan Leaf?

With Tesla Roadsters already on the road and Americans poised to place their Nissan Leaf orders tomorrow, Coda Automotive is claiming that its electric sedan will hit the market within months — and that it will trounce the Leaf’s performance for a price difference of just a couple thousand dollars.

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High-Flying Solar Robots Designed to Soar Above Dubai

Soaring like robotic birds, these energy generating flying devices were conceived by Carlos Campos Yamila Zynda Aiub Architects for the skies of Dubai. Called Wings, the curious “creatures” use solar cells to store energy, which they then use to illuminate the land below them at night in a flutter of constellation-like formations. Read the rest of High-Flying Solar Robots Designed to Soar Above Dubai http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2010 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition , Carlos Campos Yamila Zynda Aiub Architects robot , choreographies in the sky , dubai , eco design , flying robots , green design , robotic bird , Solar Power , solar powered robots , sustainable design , wing

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Famous Chinese Artist Paints Polluted Waters

Original 12th-century paintings by Ma Yuan (left) and Zhang Hongtu’s contemporary reworkings (right) to show the effects of agricultural pollution (top) and dams (bottom).

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Islands of Garbage Filling China’s Three Gorges Dam

Image via China Daily Torrential rain in China has caused extreme flooding , affecting at least 134 million people in 28 provinces. But many more could be impacted due to another major issue caused by the rain

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Weekday Vegetarian: An Artful Eggplant and Red Pepper Stack for a Hot Day

Photo: Emma Alter The eggplant that I have been growing in my garden has been extremely successful this year. The flowers are beautiful, which is always nice, and each plant is providing a large number of vegetables.

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Resisting Desire to Control Nature Key to China’s and the United States’ Green Future

15th century painting, “Poet on a Mountain Top” by Shen Zhou via The Nameless Blog In an interesting interview over at China Dialogue , reporter for The Guardian and author of the new book When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts offers an important insight into the different tugging philosophical perspectives that have driven, and are now driving, China’s attitudes towards the environment. It all comes down to the difference between

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Today on Planet 100: Shark Finning 101

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NBBJ Unveils Futuristic Qingdao Water City Expo Center

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