[Vision2020] China's Green Evolution

[Chasuk]

Here is an interesting article about a surprising subject:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-07/chinas-green-evolution

An excerpt:


"China's top-down, authoritarian development model-an unyielding
machine greatly more efficient than that of a messy democracy-could
apply to ecological as well as economic progress. In the center of the
former most polluted city in the world, it was evident that if China
wills it, it has the power to impose environmentalism by fiat, to
green the entire country at five times the speed the West ever could.
All the rest of the world has to do is wait."

Look at this photo gallery, making sure to read teh text:

http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2007-07/dongtan-city

A few other links about China's eco-cities:

http://www.arup.com/eastasia/project.cfm?pageid=7047
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongtan

Chas