Low Carbon Cchina: Disruptic Innovation and The Role Oo International Collaboration by David Tyfield and James Wilsdon The China Policy Institute – The University of Nottingham, is a paper the shows the important role that academics play at the sustainability table. The second paragraph for me sets the stage: It is now widely recognised that [...]

Recently, when looking to understand the issues of sustainability, I have been less concerned with mpg or SOX, but about populations. Specifically, the fact that in 1950 we were a mere 1.5 billion people.. and now we are 6.7billion. One of the more interesting, and concise documents, I found recently comes from the Population Media [...]

I was once tempted to commission students in Shanghai to participate in a photo exhibition that I was going to call “Shanghai is my trash can” where we would capture people simply throwing their trash into the middle of the street. Today, I may have found a winner on Youtube. For more on my thoughts [...]

While attending the JUCCCE conference last year, I began to understand that when looking at clean technologies, or otherwise making the case for “sustainability”, it was important to understand the health costs to remaining brown. That in the end, policy makers and agency officials would eventually connect the dots and begin making investments into sustainability [...]

While visiting the American Forest and Paper office in Shanghai a few years back, the director and I were looking out the window of their Xujiahui office.  It was an amazing view of Shanghai that day, and while enjoying the view a comment was made about how Shanghai has been reforested with 30 story buildings. [...]

Perhaps one of the biggest problems in China’s Organic industry is that there are a number of labels, several certifications, and consumer trust in any of these is poor. So, when visiting the Organic Hotpot on Shanxi road, I was intrigued by the restaurant’s Green N Safe certification. A coalition of three groups, 2 based [...]

Company Est 2001 by Japanese entrepreneur for local japanese community – early financial success wasn’t good. Super markets were fragmented – sold farm and returned to his business – new firm bought in and grew through grocery expansion period – own 2 farms in shanghai – have 4 partner farms in north/ south china ( [...]

The Energy Tribune has published the fantastic article Coal: China’s Energy Pillar. Perhaps the most comprehensive picture of China’s coal industry I have seen under 3000 words, the authors of this article show the complicated relationship that China has with coal – the growing need for coal, the environment costs, the safety of mines, and [...]

It may seen strange that in the middle of a global recession, and in perhaps one of the worst real estate market China has seen in 10 years, that anyone would unveil two new projects. Two MASSIVE Exhibition projects in Dalian and Shenzhen. But, that is just what Coop Himmelb(l)au has decided to do (h/t [...]

I recently came across a very interesting presentation given by Prof. Wu Wenliang of China Agricultural University in 2005 that I think does an excellent job of showing the relationships he is drawing with agriculture within the greater context of sustainable development: Chinese eco-agriculture is a new integrated agriculture system which integrates agricultural production, rural [...]