Recycling scrap materials, and turning them into something of value seem to be something that China can do with just about anything. Including a wetland that used to be a scrap yard. The Shanghai Daily report We have successfully turned the dump into an ecological area provides the good news: REEDS swaying in the breeze, [...]

quickly becoming one of the most successful food writers in the US,  Michael Pollen has been able to change the way many view food. His first book, Omnivore’s Delimma was a New York Times best seller, and on a personal level it was one of those books that provided the first real opportunity for the [...]

China’s Green Beat has recently uploaded a series of interesting interviews with Tsinghua Professor Andreas Oberheitmann (Research Center for International Environmental Policy). In this clip, he talks about CDM in China

To encourage the purchase of hybrid vehicles in 11 cities, the Ministry of Finance has recently announced a subsidy program aimed at taxi, bus, and other transport companies: The government promised to give companies and institutions, which purchase and use such vehicles, lump sum subsidies to offset their extra cost on fueling efficient cars than [...]

A well covered topic on CGC, China is running out of water. It is an issue that we are quite concerned with, particularly in the north of the country, and the Xinhua article Droughts put north China on red alert has only added to the sense of urgency: Henan, China’s major grain producer, issued a [...]

Jonathan Woetzle and his team and MGI have been doing a lot of work to research, analyze, and promote the way that China should urbanize. It is a report I read last year, and it is one I believe anyone who considers themselves as having a role in sustainability should read as it does a [...]

Live in one of China’s East coast cities long enough, and you will have the urge to point your bike towards the nearest environmental exit. It is one of the things many miss in China, some quality time with the environment, but as this Go Kunming post shows, there are ways to get away. Cycling [...]

In the AP article, China to provide clean water for 60 mln in 2009, they quote state media that detail the plan to improve access to safe drinking water by 60 mn in 2009: Currently, more than 200 million Chinese do not have access to safe drinking water, down from 379 million in late 2000, [...]

With the recent posts on Grist and The Atlantic “breaking” the news that NASA found Beijing’s Olympic controls worked, I would like to once again reiterate my point. So What. Both Grist and Fallows seem to follow the same line that: corrective steps can improve even the most hopeless-seeming environmental disasters. It’s worth trying to [...]

While the focus of sustainability is closely linked to “energy usage” and waste, the conversation on the role of design & designers has yet to take center stage. The recent article Design is an Avocado: The Layers of Green Design by Brian Dougherty (an excerpt from his recent book Green Graphic Design) though does a [...]