China NPOs and companies offset carbon footprint in Inner Mongolia
(Image via Small Worlds Magazine) We are all bombarded with information about our “footprint” and how big and bad it is. But what exactly are we supposed to be doing with this information in China, a...
View ArticleChina quake damage even worse than we thought
(Image via BBC News) “China quake toll ‘to top 50,000′“ BBC News May 15, 2008 More than 50,000 people may have died in the earthquake that devastated parts of China on Monday, state media say. The...
View ArticleAge ain’t nothing but a number when it comes to discussing climate change…
(Image via TaylorFrancis.org) The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai welcomes Taylor Francis, the youngest presenter trained by Al Gore for The Climate Project, a grassroots nonprofit...
View ArticleBlog Action Day: Poverty and environmentalism
Here in my time zone, we have just a few more hours left of Blog Action Day 2008, where bloggers all over the world commit to covering one specific topic. This year, that topic is POVERTY. I wanted to...
View Article“Eco-documentaries” during New Beijing International Movie Week
I met with the president of the Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) a few weeks ago and he got the term “eco-civilization” stuck in my head. Ever since, I’ve been sticking “eco-”...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Trash and Environmental Justice
Photo by art_es_anna. The Modern Predicament The amount of material needed to sustain the modern world is somewhat ridiculous– and what better way to understand how much substance we buy is there than...
View ArticleInternational Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change
International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change July 18, 2009 – July 19, 2009 Beijing, China Hosts: Tsinghua University Student Green Association Peking University CDM Club China Youth Climate...
View ArticleThe Rise of Environmental NGOs
Baihua Lake, China. Image via the International Wushu Federation. I’ve recently found two stories about environmental NGOs in China directly taking a stance against the government to improve...
View ArticleEnvironmental Virtue: What Can We Learn From China?
Lu Guang (??) from won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” Image via ChinaHush.com. Previously, I’ve blogged about...
View ArticleHow Did RespChi Represent on 350 Day of Climate Action?
Photo courtesy of Alex Pasternack. Our man Mark Hiew and friends John Romankiewicz (of China’s Green Beat) and Alex Pasternack (of Treehugger) called awareness to climate change on 350.org’s...
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