Just received the below from Ellen Carberry, founder of : Thanks to your support in 2008, we successfully launched The China Greentech Initiative! The initiative’s vision of addressing this most pressing sustainability issue for China and the world, while uncovering commercial opportunities within these challenges once seemed an idealistic goal.  Through the leadership of the [...]

With recent news that Long Beach was backed up with unwanted recycled paper, I guess it should come as no surprise that the backup is also hitting mainland recyclers as well.

Protecting nature for the next generation was something I learned early through my yearly trips Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park.  Hiking up to Bear lake, or going through the canyons, there were few activities I have enjoyed more, and so it is with great happiness that I was recently introduced to the people at China [...]

When working with the issues of poverty alleviation, and those at the bottom of the pyramid, I am constantly amazed by how simple it is to make improvements through the use of existing technologies and a little money. World Bank loans money to China for biogas project highlights one of those efforts: The World Bank [...]

Going back a month or so ago, I highlighted an article that linked the lack of carpooling in China to the fear of being fined for being a gypsy cab.  It was an interesting article to say the least insofar as it provided an opportunity for me to consider a hurdle I had not seen [...]

Critical to China’s role as the world’s workshop is its ability to move hundreds of millions of containers full of goods from the factory floor to the market. Recently there have been a some reports that have tied trade to emission growth, and firms like Agility Logistics and Maersk have been working closely with their [...]

The recent JLM Pacific Epoch coverage on a 1GW Qinghai Solar Base may offer some hope that China’s nascent domestic solar market may be turning around. It follows several other deals in the domestic solar space, and unlike many deals in the US that I have seen lately, it is the Chinese government who appear [...]

For me, there have been some clear gains on this year, a lot of the same old same old, and some big dissapointments. Emotionally and intellectually there has been a lot to take in and process, and even with some questioning the real potential of cleantech (and its many variations), I think there is a [...]