Short article describing efforts to go beyond green building standards to green district standards. Examples mentioned for Portland, Seattle, and cities in China.
Article on the failure of the large-scale eco-city projects planned in China that were intended to be models of green urban design.
'This briefing paper provides a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes, looking at preparedness, relief and recovery.'
64Tianwang is a human rights website founded by Huang Qi which has published a number of articles criticizing the poor quality of construction in schools following the Sichuan earthquake.
Article highlighting that just 5 percent of the more than US$20 billion of quake-related damages in Sichuan is likely to be covered by insurance.
