Following the recent holiday, I found the above tree that mixed the new (haibao) with the old (a packet of Double Happiness) as a strange reminder of just how far we have yet to go.

While many had their eyes trained on the outcome of the last day at COP15, my eyes were reviewing final project submissions from the recent batch of students at Shanghai’s Raffles Design Institute. A school dedicated to all things design, this class of students was coming from the communications department and were charged with taking [...]

Just received the below job opportunity from PACE: THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Department of Geography and Resource Management Assistant Professor / Associate Professor (Ref. 0910/005(005)/2) (Closing date: September 30, 2009) The Department invites applicants for a full-time Assistant Professor / Associate Professor post in Resource Management and Environmental Studies. Applicants should have a [...]

Anyone following @juccce last month saw a wave of updates from founder Peggy Liu as their first mayoral training kicked off. 18 months in the planning and  formalized at the November 2008 JUCCCE conference, the 8 day session: 50 mayors from all over China gathered in Beijing to learn from worldwide experts about how to [...]

With the WWF China team still on a high from the success of March’s Earth Hour event, their local team pt together a press package (download here) of all the China based events that I think does a great job of summarizing the success they found in China. For me, one of my primary concerns [...]

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

AFP report that China ramps up subsidies for energy-efficient light bulbs is welcome news for a number of reasons: 1) The previous program proved successful 2) The previous program was successful enough to expand on 3) Subsidizing the 150 million bulbs will signiifcantely reduce the power draw from coal plants 4) There is a chandelier [...]

The Scientific American ArticleScientists urge Chinese farmers to use fertilizer better was tipped me off to the recently released study Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems This study examines grain yields and N loss pathways using a synthetic approach in 2 of the most intensive double-cropping systems in China: [...]

I just finished reading the 1997 re-release of Vance Packard’s book The Hidden Pursuaders,  a fascinating book about how through the addition of psychology and sociology, adverting firms were able to become more effective at placing products in the consumer minds. One section focused on how children soaked up advertising, and through this process, the [...]

Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy , through this Poptech clip introduces us to a new way to think about how people view global warming. That rather than one definition for all, we need to look at how people (separated into 4 quadrants) view how global warming affects them. For me, it hit [...]