With some valid questions being asked about the success rates of previously punted Chinese eco-towns, here is an announcement that offers perhaps a change. Where Dongtan, Huangbaiyu, and other were products media and politics – and backed by service firms – this recent headline is of a new platform in Tianjin is different: China’s National [...]

The recently published Green Rich List the the Times Online puts forward 100 names of people who are rich and “green”: The Green List has unearthed 100 tycoons or wealthy families worth £200m or more who have made either serious investments in green technology and businesses or hefty financial commitments to environmental causes. In total, [...]

tomorrow morning, I will be interviewing the Sustinability Director for one of Asia’s largest banks. It is a result of an interesting chat that I had with them about what a “Sustainability Director” does at a bank, and I would like to invite readers to send in their questions. Here is what I have so [...]

When the average consumer thinks of clean transportation, they will think of hybrid cars, pubic transportation, or walking, but for the industrial world it has a whole different meaning. It is a world made possible by carbon as trucks, ships, and airplane move goods around the world from factory floor to retail shelf. You have [...]

h/t to CLEB for reminding me I needed to write up a post on the new e-waste announcement that came out of Beijing last week. Much like banning plastic bags, this is a problem that needed to be addressed years ago, and it is through policies that the foundation to cleaning up this problem will [...]

One of the reasons why I have hope that things can (and will change) is that as citizens face the issues of environmental and lifestyle degradation, they can be motivated to develop a solution that would not have otherwise been developed. In the words of Chris Horton at Go Kunming: Last Friday in Beijing, Yunnan [...]

Bitter to the taste, high in vitamin C, and fun to eat, pomelos have become of my favorite winter fruits in Shanghai and for the last few months that has meant picking one up a couple times a week. Until a couple weeks ago when I picked up this pomelo near my house, cracked it [...]

Job title: Project Coordinator for Eco-Office Audit, a joint project of Roots & Shoots and the British Council This is a full-time position based in Beijing, with a one-year contract signed after a one-month probation period. Responsibilities: 1.Recruit schools, adult volunteers, companies and government organizations in the initiative. 2.Create project plans, budgets and reports on [...]

Last week in Washington, DC, the folks who created the famous carbon abatement cost curve for the U.S. were on Capitol Hill to talk about China’s potential for greening its economy. Jonathan Woetzel, director of McKinsey & Company’s Shanghai Office presented highlights from their recent report, “China’s Green Revolution,” and offered suggestions about where US [...]

ot sure if this story is reassuring, or alarming, but the Guardian has posted the excellent article China plans 59 reservoirs to collect meltwater from its shrinking glaciers. Reassuring me is the fact that the powers that be have identified glacial melt as being a problem they must address, and they have come up with [...]