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Village green

17 November 2022

Construction is one of the most environmentally damaging industries and, it insists, there will be no greenwashing. In the Danish capital, one developer is trying to lead from the front – and swell its coffers in the pro…

Radio

The Bulletin with UBS - Green bonds

19 August 2018

This week we look at the sustainable-investment landscape and put green bonds in the spotlight. We reflect on the move by UBS to join the Climate Bonds Programme; consider the ways in which some new and innovative instru…

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Stars in their eyes

21 November 2014

Inside the European Space Agency complex on the Dutch coast, engineers and scientists are wrestling with big ideas. But for them, where we come from and whether we are alone are not philosophical questions: they are the…

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Making an entrance: Nott Architects

18 January 2016

Meet the architecture firms that put a premium on coming up with elegant solutions for interiors that reflect their owners’ personalities. Their work in Bangkok, Christchurch and Vienna imbues hotels, restaurants and bars…

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Growing green

3 March 2016

Responding to the decimation of green space in his hometown of Ho Chi Minh City, architect Vo Trong Nghia is known for creating sustainable architecture with bamboo. This week Vo kicked off the 2016 Asia Pacific Architec…

Monocle Minute

Green house

18 March 2016

This year a clear theme at leading real-estate event Mipim has been how climate change is registering in the property market, so it was perhaps fitting that Cannes’ typically sunny trade show turned to heavy downpours and…

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Clean and green

23 April 2016

The Don Valley, which traces the Don River on the western edge of Toronto into Lake Ontario, has been a casualty of the city’s industrialisation. For most of the 20th century, factories have been pumping their toxic waste…

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Green room

20 June 2019

The co-founder and publisher of Vienna’s foremost news and reviews magazine likes to dodge the crowds in the city’s public parks.

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Green rooms

12 April 2017

Although rather unremarkable at first glance, the small pitch-roofed former park-keeper’s houses that pepper Vancouver’s public spaces are among some of the most quietly recognisable features of the city’s park system.…

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Green shoots

7 December 2015

Hong Kong kicks off its half of a bi-city architecture biennale this week, held in collaboration with the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The three-month event aims to showcase a vision of Hong Kong in 2050. Yet it will also be…

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Green machine

17 September 2012

Most restaurants boast of using only fresh ingredients but they don’t come much fresher than at De Kas.

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Green wings

20 May 2010

Widerøe is green in both livery and ethos, thanks to its successful carbon offset scheme – just one reason why its customers seem to love the carrier so much.

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Everyone on board

18 August 2011

Air New Zealand’s laid-back chief executive isn’t bothered about business speak and motivational babble. His is a hands-on, direct approach. And that means being able to communicate with everyone from the hallowed customer…

Film

Sweden’s Arctic: green innovation

5 January 2021

Norrbotten in Sweden is blessed with natural resources but more recently has been turning heads because of its growing roster of innovative start-ups. We bear witness to the region's effort to change heavy industries into…

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From red to green

19 November 2009

It builds one new coal power plant every week, and is the largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. But as world leaders gather for Copenhagen’s climate change conference, China is also the nation that could save…

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Green infusion

13 November 2015

Once the lifeline of Singapore’s industrialisation, a 24km strip of disused railway tracks will be given a new lease of life as a “green corridor”. According to plans released this week, Japanese architecture firm Nikken…