Perhaps one of the most exciting things about living in China is seeing the speed by which it is willing to leapfrog old technologies and invest in new. and, if true, the article China prepares $29 billion for green car projects, is just another example of how fast leaders in China are willing to react [...]

A recent article at the People’s Daily reports that desertification causes yearly loss of 54 billion yuan in China. Realistically, given the various unmeasurable costs this number is vastly under reported, and where I would like to direct your attention is to the passage: China’s desertified land accounts for 18.1% of the country’s total land [...]

h/t to Go Kunming for introducing us to this recipe! Ingredients 100g of rubing* 1 medium sized floret of broccoli 1 large tomato 2 cloves of garlic 1 tbsp of soy sauce 2 tsp salt Oil for frying See the full preparatoin at the Go Kunming site

In the article Official warns environmental pollution no longer acceptable, I saw the strongest statement to date that officials and agencies are finally understanding the tradoff between economic growth and the environmnet: Yangzonghai Lake, famous for its springs, was found to contain arsenic in June in the Yuxi City section. A local company named Jinye [...]

What do you think of first when you hear the word “sustainability”? Do you think of solar panels?  hybrid cars?  Clean Coal? air pollution? If you are in the US or EU, chances are that you think of those issues (which are legitimate) as that is what the green movement has been able to push [...]

With dozens of cities in China urbanizing all at the same time, and at a pace matched at no time by anyone else, making sure cities are planned and built properly is a must.

For a firm looking to “green” itself, the traditional model has been the costs of brown vs. the costs of green. A simply apples to apples comparison that many used to determine whether the time and money should be invested to develop a product (portfolio or products) that were more environmentally friendly. In areas like [...]

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Returning from their period of Youtube silence, China’s Green Beat has returned with their latest video. Focused onthe Nu River, in Southwest China, this video marks a departure from their hisotrically slap stick based environmental lessons, but the topic is equally as important. To learn more about the conditions of Nu River, and its damming, [...]

Attending 2 cleantech conferences in a week will provide many opportunities to learn, There was a lot to take in, a lot of people to meet, and a lot of issues to face… and work through. Not a specialist in clean technologies, my interest in attending these events was to see the latest and greatest [...]