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Alternative Energy & Efficiency

• Sunlabob Rural Energy System Co,Ltd
• Canadian Professor Develops Plastic that More Efficiently Converts Solar Energy
• Journal: Energy for Sustainable Development
• Vietnam's Coal-Fueled Boom - TIME : Despite the environmental cost, fast-growing Vietnam turns to coal to meet its energy needs.
• Energize America | Energy Security by 2020
• Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
• Energy Efficiency Report--Glossary
• Global Energy Demand To Double By 2030 :: Bernama.com : First attempt to define and measure energy efficiency in the United States in a systematic manner.
• Integrated Design Process - Energy Efficient Development : Integrated Design Process from Bunting Coady Architects focusing green building design, and sustainable development, including institutional and university facilities.
• Standards and Labels Online Information Clearinghouse - The CLASP Website : Homepage of the Standards and Labels (S&L) Online Information Clearinghouse - The CLASP Website, which offers information on S&L rationale, benefits, development, worldwide contacts, the CLASP organization, and useful tools.

Biofiltration and Biocomponent Engineering

• NASA Study - Plants Clean the Air
• List of air-filtering plants - Wikipedia
• Biosphere 2 - Where science lives.
• Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia
• Aquaponics - Wikipedia
• Biofilter - Wikipedia
• Genetron installations
• Green Wall : The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, one of Canada's leading engineering and applied science schools.
• biofiltration site--University of Guelph
• Biowall | Live Building
• Sound barrier living wall
• RAIC Award of Excellence--Green wall
• Air Quality Solutions
• Conceptual study on bio-wall technology--feasibility and process design
• Ingenia Articles -- introducing plants into engineering : Ingenia magazine is aimed at all those with an interest in engineering, whether you work in business and industry, government, academia or the financial community. Complex or technical engineering issues are explained for the non-specialist and confusing jargon is kept to a minimum.
• Biomimicry and Green Building
• Plants cleaning air : How plants cleanse household air
• Air Filtration and Purification with House Plants : House plants that purify, filter, and cleanse our air of toxins can be very easy to grow and care for.
• Top Ten Houseplants for Cleaner Air :: Green Living at Care2 : Don't forget about plants for cleaning indoor air pollution.
• Bioneers | Bioneers

Building in Viet Nam

• Top 10 2006 Awards --BCI most prolific architects in VN
• FuturArc Green Design Competition : FuturArc helps architects, engineers and developers understand change before it is manifest in the built environment. The journal encourages readers to become innovators and early adopters of technologies and design styles. Ultimately, it helps them create better built environments
• VIETNAM | Projects & Construction - SkyscraperCity : VIETNAM | Projects & Construction City/Metro Compilations
• Vietnam Construction Market -- overview:  The following article published by Construction International concerns Vietnam Construction Market Introduced by Vietnam Construction Market.
• VN average construction costs:  Davis Langdon and Seah Asia

Climate Change and Mitigation

• Bill Clinton: Green buildings key to fighting climate change | Tech news blog - CNET News.com : At the Greenbuild conference in Chicago, former president praises sustainable design and presses the need for global efforts to battle climate change.

• Greenland ice sheet melting at record rate : AlertNet provides news, information and analysis for everyone interested in emergency relief.
  
• Problems with the Bali Deal
• Peak Oil and Climate Change Q & A | Inspiring Green Leadership
• 2007 a year of weather records in U.S. - Yahoo! News : When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide, 1.53 degrees above normal. It was the first time since record-keeping began in 1880 that the globe's average temperature has been so far above the norm for any month of the year.
• Glaciers - Melting Ice, Swelling Seas - New York Times : A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world’s most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
• Ice Loss in Antarctica Escalating
• Marshalling Asia to Act
• Planet Ark : Central Vietnam Struggles With New Flood Disaster
• EPA : Sea Level Rise Reports : The EPA Global Warming Site: Sea Level Rise Reports -- presents studies of the economic and environmental implications of rising sea level, and what society needs to do now.
• Global climate model - Wikipedia
• James Hansen on WAIS and SLR : Prominent climate scientist talks about the potential for catastrophic sea level rise.
• Even Before Its Release, World Climate Report Is Criticized as Too Optimistic : The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will moderate its gloom on sea level rise, lowering its worst-case estimate.
• Scientific reticence and sea level rise
• Sea level may rise more than 1m by 2100 : Mail & Guardian Online
• Melting glaciers will dominate sea-level rise - New Scientist Environment : Ice melt from smaller sources will be the main contributors to sea-level rise this century, not the larger ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland
• RealClimate » The IPCC sea level numbers