As part of our first official discussion in the Social Entrepreneur committee, and one in fact that is often had in the wider community, we began a process of finding a way to put our finger on what is a social enterprise vs. what is an NGO. Clearly, it was a conversation hat was not [...]

Once you start looking at charts, you just cannot stop, and following my post last week of , I cam across this interesting chart in the post China Adapts to the Climate Change Fashion Show which plots energy intensities for the US and China. Besides the typically WOW factor of look how much China has [...]

About two hours ago, Shanghai;’s 2nd WWF Earth Hour ended, and I gotta say that while there were a few hold outs (HILTON HOTEL…), overall, WWF did a good job getting the cities building managers to participate this year. Here are some stripes of my view (from the south side of Huai Hai Road).  The [...]

Why shouldn’t one expect to see more companies follow google’s lead? simple.. The people who runs the worlds largest firms are by and large not invested in their firms beyond their pay package.  Executives are commodities whose decisions are made by the short term equation that with profits comes opportunity (for them), and is not [...]

Went through my inbox this weekend and came across an email from a friend who had sent along their list of preferred China environmental blogs and sites,  and thought I would pass it on to you.  A few of them I frequent, but others are new to me, so proceed with caution. If you have [...]

If you have been following China for any amount of time, then you will know that China is good for a chart that will shock and awe readers.  Few, if any, in the cleantech space have as much power as the one above, from the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP study China’s Promotion of the Renewable [...]

Coming up April 10 and 11, the EcoVane Low Carbon Economy forum is a conference that I would highly recommend investors, equipment providers, policy makers, academics, and NGOs consider attending. Besides having a HUGE group of speakers, speakers who are some of China’s decision makers, the agenda for the event has a strong lineup of [...]

If necessity is the mother invention under normal circumstances, then transparency is the mother of all necessity in China. It is something that we have seen over the years as crisis’s propel the media further,something that the recent Yale 360 article As China’s Pollution Toll Grows,Protesters and Media Push Back eludes to: In recent months, [...]

Late last week, when the State Administration of Foreign Exchange released new regulations (right click to download here) governing how China based NGOs register their inbound donations, several media outlets (AP, SF Examiner, and SCMP) put out coverage that would leave many to believe that this new regulation was going to have an immediate and [...]

Last night, Bund Magazine held an Ecohero Award ceremony at the Bund Penisula hotel that highlighted the efforts of 10 people in China.  The first event that Bund Magazine has run, the quality of judges and attendees was quite high, and on a personal level it was exciting to be able to meet some of [...]