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	<title>Sustainable Manufacturing in China</title>
	<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec</link>
	<description>A weblog about green technologies - not only for manufacturing engineers</description>
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		<title>I am impressed! IMECHE China Mainland Finals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeasterday I watched the Speak Out for Engineering Presentation Competition (for more information on the event click here ).
The three UNNC Science &#38; Engineering students delivered absolutely fantastic presentations in the contest&#8217;s China Mainland Finals. Unfortunately none of them won the competition. However, the jury announced that it was an extremely close call.
A second point, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2010/03/08/i-am-impressed-imeche-china-mainland-finals/</link>
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		<title>Islands of Excellence: Time to Bridge the Gaps? A Guest Comment by Dr Richard Farr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Islands of Excellence: Time to Bridge the Gaps?
Richard Farr
Researchers in ‘green’ manufacturing sometimes encounter a great new idea, or a fantastic piece of technology that might one day contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle. Examples that I’ve seen include business practices that have slashed energy bills, and others where a company uses the waste from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2010/03/05/islands-of-excellence-time-to-bridge-the-gaps-a-guest-comment-by-dr-richard-farr/</link>
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		<title>UK/China Student Awards &#8212;Funding&#8212;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been made aware of the availability of funding for travelling to China to pursue doctoral research or to present at conferences (Science and Technology is mentioned as one of the priority areas):
The Great Britain-China Educational Trust invites applications for its student awards.  Awards are normally granted between £500-£5000.

From their webpage:

Who can apply?

- Chinese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2010/02/26/ukchina-student-awards-funding/</link>
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		<title>Once upon a time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;there was a lecturer at UNNC who used to blog&#8230;
I even had to check when I posted the last article. Anyway, the New Chinese Year of Tiger has just started and my Chinese New Year&#8217;s resolution is to restart blogging  on regular basis&#8230;
Happy Chinese New Year.
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		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2010/02/26/once-upon-a-time/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;[UNNC in] China: A step into the green&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just received an email making me aware of this new 4 minute video placed on Euronews.net. It deals with the research and teaching and learning we provide here at our Campus in Ningbo.



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		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/10/14/unnc-in-china-a-step-into-the-green/</link>
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		<title>IAA &#8211; novel &amp; greener concepts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally I was hoping to get some of my friends who are working in the German automotive sector to provide a report about their experiences made at the IAA. For various reasons none of them went to the IAA this year &#8211; incredible. Anyway, instead of providing a firsthand experience, I have put something together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/10/13/iaa-novel-greener-concepts/</link>
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		<title>IAA &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest automotive fair</title>
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Today the world´s leading automotive fair, the IAA, opens in Frankfurt, Germany. I am going to review a couple of interesting studies and concepts that deal with the environmentally friendlier cars as presented at the world&#8217;s biggest car fair. I will also try to present  one or two news articles that examine the IAA from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/09/17/the-iaa-the-worlds-biggest-automotive-fair/</link>
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		<title>Back online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for not posting during the summer break! 1st I was travelling and 2nd I managed to lose my login-data&#8230;
I am back in Ningbo now and looking forward to writing interesting articles for my blog!
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		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/09/15/back-in-ningbo/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Link for the Weekend&#8217; #2: BestPractices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This week&#8217;s link for the weekend contains case studies published by BestPractices on the bases of implemented and completed projects. BestPractices takes part in projects to demonstrate ways of energy saving in an industrial context:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/bestpractices/case_studies_industry.html 
&#8220;BestPractices is a program area within the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) that supports ITP&#8217;s mission to improve the energy intensity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/07/24/link-for-the-weekend-2-bestpractices/</link>
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		<title>Precision assembly conference &#8211; incl. green topics</title>
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The Precision Mnaufacturing Centre, University of Nottingham is organising the 5th International Precision Assembly  Seminar. Although focussed on microassembly, I found the following topics in the &#8216;Call for Papers&#8217; that relate to green manufacturing:

Life cycle modelling of assembly systems
Processes and systems for disassembly

Additionally there a quite a few advantages in terms of sustainability related to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gus.nottingham.edu.cn/blogs/green-tec/2009/07/16/precision-assembly-conference-incl-green-topics/</link>
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