Was reviewing some old bookmarks when I came across the World Bank Website Toward a Greener China. A Showcase of the projects they have worked on, I encourage everyone to take some time to look through the site. Besides an area to pimping their successful projects, and the progress that they have made, they have [...]

Here is a fun one for you. A guide to building your own yurt, or as they are known in Mongolia. the Ger: The oldest complete yurt yet discovered was in a 13th century grave in the Khentei Mountains of Mongolia. Discoveries at Pazaryk, Southern Siberia indicate that the technology to make yurts was in [...]

Having just finished an article on the need to develop industrial systems that better capture and reuse waste, I found the follow clip interesting. In the article Chinese Vice Premier says recycling can help boost economic growth, Vice Premier Li Keqiang says: Promoting recycling would not only improve the use of resources and protect the [...]

The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club Presents: Old Wang Gets Mobile – Cars, Electrical Cars and the Consumers A Lunchtime Talk with Yale Zhang and Klaus Paur 1 Oz 3 Wednesday, May 6th, 12pm (talk starts at 12.30pm) With the Chinese car market overtaking the US in the first quarter of this year, and the big [...]

Historically, when speaking with people about where China has a leg up in “cleantech”, I would point to battery technologies.  It was an area that was seeing a lot of VC interest 5 years ago, where the US was clearly not interested, and was a space where once perfected could be owned and licensed by [...]

In what is either a groundbreaking form of drip irrigation, or a practice that needs to be nipped in the bud, the article Transplanted trees receive ‘intravenous drip’ in NW China highlights a practice that local official are using to help ensure trees survival: Workers with the municipal bureau of parks and woods of Xi’an [...]

One of the more interesting things about firms in China is just how randomly innovative they can be. When reading through the article Bamboo keyboards expect to bring green life to computer users, I was expecting to learn about a local computer firm who had gone “sustainable” or an accessory manufacturer who was looking to [...]

Following my post on Al Gore’s thoughts on how the US needs to play capture the flag with China for electronic car supremacy, I was alerted to the SF Gate article Electric power-train firm eyes China’s buses by Earth2tech that highlights the efforts of Bay Area firm Adura to cooperate on electrifying China’s buses. It [...]

One of the greatest frustrations of mine is the fact that there is a dearth of environmental awareness in China, and few who are able to develop a program that gets beyond a small group. It is honestly, one of the most difficult things for any organization to achieve, but in China, if you are [...]

As the wheels of the global economy began to spin off, many began to ask what the implications for China’s environment would be. It was only last year that we began to see real strides, strides that were due in large part to China’s success, and its ability to get choosy, but as the manufacturing [...]