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Alessandro Bisagni, Founder and President of BEE Incorporations, has been named a 2020 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). Alessandro's mission is to leverage business to do good. This includes educating corporations about tangible ways to build, renovate, and operate spaces sustainably while also helping advance sustainability in our urban environment. Over his career, he has managed close to 400 green building projects in more than 30 countries for a combined footprint of over 40 million square feet. Alessandro is the first person to receive all three recognitions of LEED Fellow, Living Future Hero, and IWBI Leadership Award. Show Highlights Asia's impact and philosophy in achieving a sustainable world.  The world's first eco city, Dongtan. Naked Stables, defines  luxury retreats. “Sell” yourself to create desired opportunities in your career. BEE, is the world's largest consultancy focusing on luxury retail.  Alessandro started the GBPP to be a consortium for LEED professionals in China and it became a focal point for the green building movement. Incredible self sustaining eco communities, ground breaking generational projects in both LEED and WELL, and early developer conversations to inspire green building firsts. Technology and innovations that will drive sustainability in LEED and WELL. BEE Sense, works in unison for clients and provides real time tracking that reports back to platforms such as World Portfolio and ARC. Studies in ARC to compare different project type technologies and how the score in ARC changes. What you need to know about Reset and measuring air quality. “Song Saa Reserve, is a small eco community. When I say small, I mean it's over 600 acres, so let's say a small town located in Cambodia near the Angkor Wat Temple. It's basically a self-sustaining eco community that will be hospitality, residential retail, and art space. It will generate its own energy on site. It will source its own groundwater and it is currently the largest living community challenge vision plan certified projects in the world. We'll go on to be the largest, fully certified Living Community Challenge Project at the end.” -Alessandro Bisagni Alessandro Bisagni's Show Resource and Information Sapiens LinkedIn BEE Incorporations  LEED Consulting  | BEE Song Saa Reserve Dongtan Eco-City  Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes.  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast! Copyright © 2021 GBES

Mandy Kat Kitana talks about some cool shit she's doing with the Ataraxia Arts Festival and the Kostume Kults Horned Ball! Surprise guest Robert Franzese IS the real Peter Griffin. A couple is sought for public sex in Dongtan beach Thailand. Facegirl (Kathryn Dunn) gets the secret word again and Faceboy is sleep walker!!! All this and much more on the latest episode of Art Star Scene radio on Radio Free Brooklyn!!!

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Heap investigates whether eco-cities are living up to their promise. In years gone by, Costing the Earth has visited two eco-cities, which both promised that rapid urban development could be green, sustainable and profitable. Dongtan in China was meant to be part of "the quest to create a new world", according to British designers Arup. Masdar in the Arabian Gulf was to have "changed the world", according to British architect Norman Foster. But Dongtan never got built, thanks to Chinese political machinations and corruption, while Masdar has stalled, a victim of the world economic crisis. China is still pressing ahead with over 100 new eco-cities. But does the idea of the eco-city make sense anyway? Critics say that some very ordinary new cities are being branded as "eco" in an attempt to give them a green marketing gloss, and that promoting the idea of the virtuous self-contained eco-city can mask a failure to build sustainably in the rest of the economy. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.

In Anyang, Colin talks with Steve Miller, creator of the Asia News Weekly podcast, and the vlogger formerly known as QiRanger. They discuss whether he notices what goes on on around him has he records himself on video on the streets of various countries; the suburbs of Seoul versus the suburbs of Phoenix; the possible pronunciations of "QiRanger"; why he lives in Asia, and in this moment Korea; whether he researched Korea beforehand or just plunged in; when and why he made his first video ever; how his travel videos came as a natural extension of old family slideshows; the origin of his "walk-and-talk" videos, in which he does exactly that; the usefulness of neighborhood maps in Korean subway stations, especially when they got calorie counts added to them; why he enjoys Korean food in the Philippines so much; his experience as a tall white guy with a shaved head in a homogenous Asian country, and how his youth at a black school prepared him for it; how he got into news podcasting; the cafe street in Dongtan, where he lives, and how business models become brief crazes in Korea; the planning for failure Koreans don't tend to do; his Korean foods of choice; the difference between 신천 and 신촌; his success rate with Mexican cuisine in Korea; how to think about the Philippines; the inevitable video-making that happens on his vacations; what a GoPro actually is; they myth about foreigners in Korea he'd most like to explode; the motivation his Star Trek-watching childhood instilled in him; why he wants to stop teaching basic English in Korea, and why students of English there rarely learn to communicate well; why he thinks Asia is so important, and how he thinks it enriches those who come to it.

The main aim of SUSTAIN is to develop collaborative research proposals to investigate how to improve the development of sustainable cities. This will be achieved by convening a series of 4 workshops; water, energy, synergy and transport, each consisting of two meetings and each pair developing one (or more) collaborative proposals. In August 2005, Arup- one of the world's most respected global design consultatncies - was contracted to design and masterplan the world's first sustainable city, Dongtan, in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC) contracted Arup to work with them on two further eco-cities. SUSTAIN is part of a wider drive to pull together a critical mass of expertise and research to build and design the cities of the future and Arup will play a pivotal role in the network's development, engaging the participants in the growth of Dongtan. Arup approached EPSRC with a view to sponsoring collaborative research and following a series of initial discussions, EPSRC invited a number of UK universities to work with them to develop research networks involving researchers in the UK and China. The cultural, structural and political differences between the academic bodies of China and other western countries has been the focus of much research over time. The work of SUSTAIN will be concerned with identifying similarities and areas of shared concern. The aim of the network is to put in place a structure that will allow a flow of knowledge and information between the parallel researchers involved in the workshops. The objective to focus this work will be a set of fully-developed research proposals. By drawing together not only academics, but also representatives from funding bodies in China and the UK, the workshops will draw on a vast knowledge-base of expertise in identifying subjects, strategies, funding sources and issues. The SUSTAIN Network will design these research project proposals from which a very large number of people will benefit: communities wishing to develop sustainable cities from new or through regeneration or redevelopment; researchers, developers and consultants who will be able to be more familiar with the holistic systems approaches needed to develop sustainable solutions governments who will be able to understand what policy actions they need to put in place in order for a successful sustainable programme to be implemented and of course the people who will be able to live in sustainable environments in the future. As well as the most visible aim of the project - developing substantive project proposals - a more long-reaching and intricate aim of the workshops will be to encourage a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the researchers to lay strong foundations for feasible and productive collaborations. This understanding will be of benefit to other researchers in each country who wish to enter into collaborative research with researchers in the other. However, the main beneficiaries of the SUSTAIN project itself will be, in addition to the network team, the local people with whom the team will connect during its public activities in each location.

By 2010 it is anticipated that half of China's population will have moved from the countryside to the cities. The Chinese Government has recently presented Dongtan, near Shanghai, as their ecological showcase to the United Nations World Urban Forum, but what will tomorrow's new Chinese city be? Our key research concern was to design a more sustainable social and economic community and strike a balance between modernization and environmental preservation. The “ecological life-style” is a global concept, but Guangming Smart-city and its green sustainable policies have to be uniquely “Chinese”. The new urban blueprint for Guangming Smart-city covering 7.97 km2 of Guangdong, China aims to preserve and enhance natural and cultural resources, expand the range of eco-transportation, employment and housing choices, and values long-term regional social sustainability over short-term focus. To prevent urban sprawl, the new city advocates compact land use patterns that are walkable and bicycle-friendly with mixed-use developments and a range of housing typologies for mixed incomes. Guangming Smart-city is a city driven by the principles of slow living, emphasizing a happy balance in life that is firmly rooted in the 21st Century. Slow living is fundamental to the success of this new city especially in the context of China's current culture of speed; it will establish a unique character and lifestyle, setting Guangming Smart-city apart. Guangming Smart-city is ecologically and economically self-sustaining. It uses innovative methods to recycle materials and harness renewable energies, minimises the use of non-renewable resources and implements zero energy building principles. It relates its inhabitants and employment strategies to the natural environment. It promotes technology that protects the environment, preserves culinary and local food production traditions and fosters a spirit of neighbourliness. This philosophy of sustainability will revolutionize the way people in China think about urban living. This research was funded by the Chinese Government and was presented to a panel of design juries, local and national politicians, national planners, and community leaders. The presentations were open to public and reported on national television and newspapers. Also, the proposal was the subject of a public conference with think-tanks consisting of urban planners, architects, traffic engineers, social anthropologists, mayors and environmental agencies from UK, Japan, Holland, Norway, USA, Hong Kong and China, chaired by Arata Izosaki and Rem Koolhaas. The issues raised will influence China's environmental policy and have direct economic impact on the region's ecological policy.