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    Denmark opens first bicycle superhighway between Copenhagen and Albertslund

    Posted on July 20, 2012 by gavril

    The Danes love their bicycles, so much that a 11 mile bicycle superhighway built between Copenhagen and Albertslund faces regular two-wheeler traffic every day. Uninterrupted by busy main streets and gas-powered traffic, this superhighway passes through nature’s very best and … Continue reading3 →

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    The winner of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, the Copenhagen Wheel turns your cycle hybrid!

    Posted on August 16, 2010 by gavril

    The 2010 James Dyson Award has been hooked up by a team of students at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab who came up with the Copenhagen Wheel, an innovation created to convert existing full sized bikes into a human / electric … Continue reading3 →

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    Copenhagen passes mandatory green roof policy for a city with greener roof-tops

    Posted on June 9, 2010 by gavril

    Copenhagen hopes to go carbon neutral by the year 2025, and in an effort to do so, the city has come up with a novel view way to spread the green around, this time on rooftops. A future aerial view … Continue reading3 →

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    Nordholmene – A sustainable development on the cost of Copenhagen

    Posted on January 6, 2010 by kamakshi

    Sustainability has been the most used word for the last few decades now. To make a sustainable environment involves nourishment of the nature apart from the basic supply of necessities and support. And so Danish architects Cobe, in collaboration with … Continue reading3 →

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    MIT to encourage unfit people into cycling with new motor wheels

    Posted on December 17, 2009 by shvveta

    Copenhagen is not hyped when you say that the number of cyclists here outnumber he car owners. The big environmental conferences take place here, and yet this conscious city still takes measures to go even more environment friendly. Here, where … Continue reading3 →

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    Does Copenhagen summit really practice what it preaches?

    Posted on December 17, 2009 by shvveta

    No matter how many conferences are held at the Copenhagen environment summit, no matter how much environmental degradation we face, no matter the ever increasing warnings and preaches to use less water, conserve energy, turning down the heat, reduce deforestation, … Continue reading3 →

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    Is the Copenhagen summit to save the environment, a waste of energy?

    Posted on December 10, 2009 by gavril

    Copenhagen saw a hoard of visitors arriving for the summit on Monday morning, in vehicles burning up energy every second and polluting the environment. Ironical as it may sound; scores of VIP’s, world leaders and delegates arrived in luxury cars. … Continue reading3 →

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    COP15: Norway Unveils Energy-Efficient Sea Facing Office Building Design

    Posted on December 8, 2009 by madhuri

    Well, Copenhagen Summit is throwing up lot of surprises but the only gloom lifting ones are the new green designs and products that are being unveiled while the debate rages on. Norway for instance has unveiled a complete energy-efficient office … Continue reading3 →

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    Copenhagen summit’s greenhouse emission is equal to that of an African country!

    Posted on December 8, 2009 by gavril

    It may sound surprising and ironical but according to estimates by the United Nations, this years climate change talks in Copenhagen will result in the production of carbon dioxide that equals that produced by an African country! The 12 day … Continue reading3 →

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    WWF reaches out to answer all Queries on the Eve of COP15

    Posted on December 7, 2009 by madhuri

    The most important event of the year, Copenhagen Climate Change Summit has already begun and there are many earthlings who still are in dark about the entire climate change debate, Kyoto Protocol, role of their nation, green technology and all … Continue reading3 →

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