Sentence examples for low-carbon communities from inspiring English sources
China has designated and invested in pilot cities for electric vehicles, smart grids, LED lighting, rural biomass and low-carbon communities.
Transition Streets began in Totnes in Devon, after the town was selected as one of 10 low-carbon communities by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in late 2010.
Finally, case studies of designing low-carbon communities are presented.
This article analyses different types of emerging low-carbon communities as a context for individual behavioural change.
On the basis of an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various community solutions, implications are drawn for further research and for the design and support of low-carbon communities.
Together with the Co-operative, we brought together leaders from some of this country's most respected and influential civil society organisations, including the Women's Institute and the National Trust, together with the experts such as Low Carbon Communities Network, Communities and Climate Action Alliance, and PURE Leapfrog.
Transitioning to low carbon communities requires an understanding of community practices and resultant emissions, as well as the technologies, infrastructures and institutions associated with and accessed by communities.
Research to date by the authors and others indicates that a comprehensive socio-technical framework that considers both individual psychological factors as well as the systems, standards and norms under which individuals operate is fundamental to the development of successful strategies to shift towards low carbon communities.
A hydrogen community energy storage (H-CES) system including a PEM electrolyser, metal hydride tank and PEMFC unit was designed, built and tested for a low carbon community.
As an illustrative example, the model is applied to a low carbon community including five buildings (hotel, hospital, office, store and apartment) located in Shanghai, China.
Solar-driven ORC-based distributed energy system (DES) is a potential integration energy solution for sustainable development of low carbon community.
