With China laying more road and building more buildings than anywhere else in the world, I can only hope that policy makers will catch onto this technology and invest. Cement that Eats Carbon Dioxide Invented by British Scientists details the benefits: According to Novacem, its product can absorb, over its lifecycle, around 0.6 tonnes of [...]

Keeping your eye on the ball is one of the first rules kids learn in sports.  It is the key to success. Apparently for China’s scientists looking to lead the way in the areas of alternative energy, we have another breakthrough to follow up on BYD’s recent product release. (h/t Eco Friendly Mag) China’s new [...]

For years, the warnings of a deteriorating environment on the health of the Chinese population have been there, and over the last 2 years it is clear that these warnings have grown in number and in urgency. However, to date, there has been no official release that has directly linked the two. Until now: A [...]

RAdio Television Hong KOng has just released a very powerful series on the impact of China’s environment called China’s New Faces – Give Me Back the Natural Scenery: Produced by Anita Tong, the filming took place in the area around Hangzhou and Nanyang, and if I could somehow require you to spend the 18 minutes [...]

The Flow documentary investigates the most important political, social and environmental issue of the 21st century – as it examines our dwindling fresh water supply on the global level through the lens of multinationals, pollution, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most [...]

Caijing has put together a short article summarizing some of the progress that China has achieved in the past year.  Not all good news, Environmental Targets Slip Further from Reach, the article’s primary focus is on the fact that China was not able to push the service industry or reduce energy intensity as planned. Item [...]

I recently found Bio Farm products in a Huai Hai super market, and was happy to see this was the new brand of one of Shanghai first organic farms that was previously named the O Farm. With their greenhouses located in the south of Shanghai’s Pudong district, this facility was opened in 2004 and has [...]

When it comes to developing sustainable practices, sometimes the best lessons to be learned, are those that have already taught. Sustainable design in its simplest form: Lessons from the living villages of Fujian rammed earth houses is a very interesting study on Xiamen’s Hakka houses. Explained in amazing detail through the 1996 Architectural Review article [...]

There is no denying it.  There are a lot of people in China, nearly 1.5 billion to be exact! The problem is that since 1979 and the implementation of the “one child” policy in China, imbalances in China’s demography have formed and the calls to end the policy are growing. In the China Stakes article [...]