Contents - July 2012

Posted: June 29, 2012
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LIVING CASES
Singapore’s hydrohub draws 100 companies
An update on hydrohub achievements in conjunction with Singapore’s International Water Week
Acid test for Tianjin Eco-City rating system
Results of early assessment on design targets pertaining to energy and water consumption
Tawau Green Energy gets new shareholder, government grant
Latest on Malaysia’s first geothermal power plant
 

COVER

SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS IN ASIA: The long road ahead

By 2050, Asia’s population will hit 5.22 billion. The total impact of our insatiable hunger for connectivity - of people, food, goods, services and ideas - grows more costly to the planet. What are businesses doing to make logistics better for us and kinder to the planet?

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Logistics’ necessary green revolution
“Sustainability in this region has to be about resource efficiency.”

Kevin Bennett, director of Sustainable Supply Chain Centre - Asia Pacific, which is developing the Green Freight Asia Network
Anatomy of a green ship
   
Maritime sustainability deadlines: The incoming tide
“The longer we ignore the problem, the more problematic it will become for the shipping industry to manage and comply.”

Andreas Chrysostomou, chairman of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee
Singapore leads Asia on green shipping  
Packing for the long haul
Learn how one of Ikea’s best-selling products developed an efficient packing solution
Now everyone can be carbon neutral
             
CASE STUDIES
Timar wins contract for wind farm in Vietnam
Solar lanterns light up off-grid rural Laos
NASA’s new ultragreen facility
Green light for Shandong’s corncob ethanol project
Setia City Mall is Malaysia’s first Green Mark Gold-certified mall
Solar power brings hope to Ladakh’s cold desert
 
   
PEOPLE  
Junko Edahiro: Life beyond growth offers new economic ideas as alternatives to GDP  
“We live not for economic growth. We live for happiness in our daily lives & we hope generations to come can enjoy their happiness.”

Junko Edahiro, chief executive of Japan for Sustainability
 
Building passively for sustainability  
“If you have a population that transport itself only using cars, that kills interaction between people.”

Chris Zijdeveld, president of Dutch Passive Housing Foundation
 
 
 
EDITORIAL
China opportunity for Europe’s doldrums
Simple steps to green procurement
Greenwashing, nuclear power and you
   
INFORMATION
Guangzhou plans for Haizhu ecological district
Japan to mine "burning ice" for energy
China’s biomass leader faces fuel, funding pressures
EU-Malaysia launches biomass confederation
Rehda lobbies for more green incentives
35% growth in gas trade to be seen only after 2015
Solar plane flies from Europe to Africa
Record 50% power from the sun over a weekend
News briefs
Homework