GREEN CITIES
LINKS
- Masdar Initiative-Eco City being built in UAE for 15,000
- Living Planet City
- Eco-Model Cities-Japan website.
- event-China Eco Expo-June 18-20, 2009, Beijing, PRC Ministry of Construction sponsored, International Green Building & Sustainable Cities Exposition.
- event-ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability.
- event-Sustainable Cities & Communities-Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2008, Geneva, 'One Planet Business' conference sponsored by WWF.
- Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company- see Masdar - planning an Eco City for 15,000
- American Electric Power- AEP on NYSE, AEP Foundation- $120M over 5 years to demonstrate green building technologies as part of Clinton Global Initiative.
- Atlanta-Zero Waste Zone in downtown, one of first in USA.
- C40 Cities-a group of the world's largest cities comitted to tackling climate change.
- C40-Tokyo conference on Japan for Sustainability
- Carbon Busters- Energy Efficiency specialists, The Carbon Buster Handbook.
- Carbon Busters- Eco Village, zero carbon sustainable community.
- Dongtan Eco City- in China, by ARUP engineering.
- Dreaming the impossible, practicing the possible building green cities for our world. by CSE director Sunita Narain. at Water, climate change and the development of cities royal collpquium in honour of HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. August 2007.
- Japan- Efforts in Eco-Model Cities in Japan - Part 2, from Japan for Sustainability news.
- LEED-US Green Building Council, LEED building rating system.
- Low-carbon City Index-WWF and a group of city reps from China, India and Denmark. see also-Global indes aims to measure sustainability of cities.
- Smart Economy-Green Buildings.
- "The Green Building Press"-lots of info.
- WBCSD-World Business Council for Sustainable Development study of 'Net-Zero" building.
Appliances
- General Electric- GE on NYSE, WKN 851144 on FSE, March/April 2002 buys Enron Wind (aka Zond + Aeropac rotors) from bankrupt Enron. 130 turbines for Cape Cod project. 3.6Mw turbines in use at Arklow Bank project in Ireland, GE 1.5MW turbine first to reach 2500 installations. #4 turbine producer in the world. 2006 working with NREL on a 5-7MW turbine.
- Indesit-IND on BIT (Milan), appliance co, subsidiary Ariston makes solar hot water heaters.
Construction
- Italcementi SpA-IT on BIT Boursa Italiano, ITALY on OTC Pink, cement company incorporating TiO2 pigments into some products.
- Kansai Electric Power Co-9503 on TSE, green roofs-new tech needs only 10cm of soil + no load reinforcement construction.
- Lafarge Group-LR on NYSE, LG on EuroNext, world's leader in building materials such as concrete and roofing materials. with see United Technologies is leading a World Business Council for Sustainable Development study of 'Net-Zero' buildings.
- Mitsubishi Material Co-5711 on TSE, NOXER paving stones using TiO2 pigment, in commercial use in Japan and at test site in UK. see also- Wikipedia-NOXER
- United Technologies Corp-UTX on NYSE, world's largest supplier of capital goods including elevators, cooling/heating and on-site power systems to the commercial building industry. with see Lafarge Group is leading a World Business Council for Sustainable Development study of 'Net-Zero' buildings.
Engineering
- Acciona Energia-ANA on MC (Madrid), Spanish construction co with a green building and environmental focus.
- AMEC-AMEC on LSE, engineering firm, working with LonWorks tech on city streetlights in Europe.
- Ebara Corp-6361 on TSE, is a total environmental engineering co.
See Also
- Biodigesters
- Smart Grids
- Energy Efficiency
- Bicycles
- EVs
- Earth energy heat exchange systems.
- Solar Street Lights
Water
- Water page
- Hyflux Ltd.-code 600 on Singapore, HYFXF.PK on OTC, desalination, water purification, wastewater cleaning, used oil recycling.
Food
- 100 mile radius food procurement projects
- Ifco Systems NV- WKN 932117 on Xetra, IFCO on NASDAQ, collapsable plastic containers for bringing produce to market + other packaging products.
- Keio Corp-9008 on TSE, additional to their core business of operating an urban railway, Keio has inaugerated a unique total recycling system for restaurant wastes- recycling food wastes into organic fertilizer, and growing organic vegetables. plans to help build food waste recycling systems for others.
- Whole Foods Market Inc.- WFMI on NASDAQ, WKN 886391 on Xetra, organic foods/supermarkets. Also owns (owned?)a piece of Real Goods Trading Co.
Housing
- Harakosan Co Ltd-8894 on Osaka, realestate co that incorporates wind/solar/recycling in buildings.
- Home Depot- HD on NYSE, hardware, no lumber from old growth forest policy.
- Lennar Homes-LEN on NYSE, built largest solar community in USA at Roseville California.
- Misawa Homes Co.-1722 on TSE, building a building a Next Generation Zero-Energy House in Asahihawa City, Hokkaido.
- Sekisui House Ltd-1928 on TSE, building a Carbon Neutral House April 2008.
- Skydome Holding Limited-SKY on ASX, skydomes to let in natural light.
- WFI Industries Ltd.- WFI on TSX, heat pumps and air conditioning units.
BIPV
- BIPV page
- Kyocera Corperation- local code 6971 on TSE, KYO on NYSE, WKN 860614 on Xetra, 350MW PV panels. 2007-building to double production. see also Kyocera Solar Inc. solar business since 1975, world's #2 solar cell co in 2003.'Econoroots Wide' a 10-13kW solar power gen system for gas stations, small business., good looking Solar Grove (TM) system built on parking lots-12 year payback period. 24MW plant in Czech Rep. expanding Mexico module plant from 35MW to 150MW by 2011.
- Sharp-6753 on TSE, Lumiwall- translucent glass wall into which thin film see-through solar cells + LED's built in. + solar powered lampposts. Kameyama Plant-Super Green Factory for making liquid crystal panels.
- Solar Integrated TechnologiesSIT on London-AIM, May 12, 2004 AIM floatation 7.2 M shares @ 1.71p. WKN AOB5U8, symbol TMB, ISIN USU8340P1031 on ETR,FSE; LA co. making flexible thin-film amorphous silicon PV cell BIPV roofing membrane, solar tents, solar carports. strategic alliance with ECD/UniSolar. Stuart Energy is a partner. Buys into Dachland GmbH of Germany, a leading green and solar roofer. $13M contract from Tesco in California to install world's largest solar roofing system.
Solar Hot Water
- Solar Hot Water page
- Indesit-IND on BIT (Milan), subsidiary Ariston makes solar hot water heaters.
- Tokyo Gas Co-9531 on TSE, sells PEFC fuel cell cogeneration systems for residential use 02/2005 with Ebara Ballard Corp + Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. 1kW electrical generator and 200 litre hot water tank.
Wastes to Power
- Waste to Power page
- AgCert International Plc-bought by AES, was AGC on AIM London, UK co with 200 biomass plants on farms, 500 on order. IPO in 2005.
- Kobelco Eco-Solutions-3764 on TSE, has a device capable of turning methane fermented in the process of sewage disposal into biomass fuel for cars.
- Kobelco Eco-Solutions Co-3764 on TSE, has developed a high efficiency thermal storage system- can store heat energy from low + medium temperature waste heat and transport it by truck to a faraway destination where the heat can bring water to 90 degrees again. used erythritol as storage material.
- Novera Energy- NVE on ASX, 79MW at 40 sites in UK, 50% of Novera Macquarie Renewable Energy Ltd which bought out landfill assets of United Utilities Green Energy in UK. TXU owns +20% of Novera. formerly Primergy.
- Viridis Clean Energy Group-VIR on ASX, 31MW landfill gas at 6 sites in Texas, plus 33 landfill gas power plants in portfolio. see also wind.
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