While many focus on bringing in “renewables” to solve our ills, water is one of those resources where it is difficult to renew. We can reduce our consumption or we can run out. Pretty simple equation, but one that is made difficult when the resource is improperly priced and the “average consumer” consumes not as [...]

Perhaps one of te best things about this recession is that fact that commodity pricing and stimulus packages have essentially increased not only the affordability of many things, and for China that means big investments in wind energy. China has set a target for renewable energy consumption of 40 percent of the market by the [...]

While traveling to Chengdu airlines last week on Shanghai Airline, I was inspired. Inspired to vent. It was an inspiration rooted in the fact that the meal was a box of vacuum packed junk (note, the picture above is not mine).  A roll, some dried cherries, peanuts, and something else that I could not make [...]

One of the more interesting groups to follow, no matter where you are in the world, is Greenpeace. Their history of confronting issues is well known, and while some of their tactics might be considered extreme for some, in china their efforts have been targeted, measured, and are done in a manner that I think [...]

Maybe it is the fact that we are coming into Copenhagen, maybe it the fact that the international press loves to chide China, or maybe Pan Jiahua was intoxicated by Australia’s fresh air… but whatever it was, he let the audience have it when answering for China’s record on the environment. Australia’s per capita emissions [...]

A few months back, I purchased a Lenovo projector at the Best Buy shop in Zhongshan park, and while taking the time to do some spring cleaning it hit me just how much packaging went into “protecting” the projector. At the very least, buy removing the external carton, Lenovo would not only save some money [...]

typically when looking for ways that tranportation firms (service providers and equipment manufacturers) look to reduce their environmental footprint, I typically focus on their impact on the supply chain.  Call my myoptic. For Volvo though, they have recently released this Youtube clip (sorry China based viewers) on how they are using software to minimize their [...]

While the rumors over the final green stimulus are flying right now, it is good to see that at least the first 3.4 billion has been allocated: Of the 23 billion yuan spending, 13 billion went to improving urban water treatment facilities, 4 billion yuan to pollution prevention projects on the Huaihe and other big [...]