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Learning from Cities - The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation

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3. Improvement of the Utilization Efficiency of Energy

The most important energy source of Linkรถping is two combined heat and power plants which generate electricity and supply centralized heating very efficiently. Centralized heating started from 1954. Now 95 percent homes are already connected with the centralized heating system. The most distinctive feature of Linkรถping energy supply is resource efficiency, and its energy system can be listed among the most energyโ ก Technology is changing our life

efficient systems in the world. The energy in households and commercial wastes are reused in cogeneration plant to produce

facilities, which are then handed

heat and power for most of local needs.

over to solely state-owned company Tenkniska Verken for operation. In

4. Making Waste Sorting

terms of technology innovation of waste

a Lifestyle and Tradition of

classification and treatment, Linkรถping

Common People

established a municipal Environmental

As the education in childhood

Center co-funded by the government,

and adolescence is extendable for the

university and enterprises, which serves

whole lifetime, the integration of a right

as a scientific research platform based

development value into their elementary

on mutual help for waste treatment

education can both help establish the

companies and research organizations,

sustainable development ethics deep into

making the waste treatment technology

their mind for a lifetime and influence

of Linkรถping forerunning in Sweden. A

their parents and the whole family

proof is that the city is sufficiently capable

lifestyle. This is a best advertisement

of receiving the waste of other countries

mode for sustainable development,

like Britain to both make money out

low-carbon development and green

of treating their wastes but also supply

development.

enough fuel for heating in cold winter.


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