Got a text message last night that China will begin offering CFL light bulbs for 1 RMB. 1 RMB!!! There was no number on how many would be sold at this amount, who would be producing the bulbs, or where the bulbs would be sold. If anyone out there has more details on this program, [...]

With the weather of the last week finally stabilizing, I decided it is time to get started on my balcony garden.   It is  a project that is going to take a few weeks to complete as I am waiting for the soil, and preparing some boxes, but I have worms in the compost and half [...]

While doing some research for my latest article in Supply Chain Asia, I came across the aede project site of the Center for Sustainable Design. The Asia Eco-Design Electronics (AEDE) project supports electronics companies in Asia that are required to meet increasingly stringent legal and customer requirements related to environmental and social issues from the [...]

GoKunming has put up a very interesting interview of WWF Kunming Office Head Wu Yusong the provides some interesting insights into their programming in the region. For me the most interesting was when Go Kunming asked about WWF’s Challenges and successed: GK: What are WWF’s biggest challenges in Yunnan? What are its greatest achievements? Wu: [...]

In this month’s Wired magazine, Brian Chen has put together the article Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles.  It is a fantastic article that shows the process by which electronic consumer items make their way through one of the SIMS Recycling Solutions centers. The toured center is a cavernous warehouse that [...]

for me, one of the best things about following my interest in sustainability is finding products that truly are innovative, are developed with a sustainable mindset, and are not citchy… as can all too often be found on a lot of consumer driven “sustainability” sites. So, when I was passed Frog’s Green Gadgets file I [...]

In what is clearly another step in right direction for a program based approach to sustainability, officials have announced that it will extends vehicle limits for another year. Fantastic. further, there are some updates to the program that suggest they have been taking the time to learn and improve the program, another good sign which [...]

Over the last few years as China’s power producers unable to keep up with the surging demand have been knocking up 2 coal fire plants a week, large cities have choked from SOX/ NOX being spewed out from these facilities, and the government has begun to announce a flurry of programs, investments, incentives, and targets [...]

With China’s energy production closely tied to the global economy, it should come as no surprise that Beijing’s skies have cleared up recently as a result of the downturn: In the second half of last year, a period that included the Olympics in August, Beijing recorded its lowest air pollution readings since 2000, according to [...]

It you are believer that the key to the environmental problems we face is education, then there is no better teacher than Jane Goodall. Founder of the Roots & Shoots program, Jane Goodall’s impact is being felt in China as programs in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Nanchang, and Inner Mongolia have developed. Part 1 Part 2