Often taking a backseat in many international forums to wind and solar power, the issues related to population are the largest there are for China.  Its population, and the management of, are at the core of every issue that China will face, and should be the KEY consideration when solutions are being developed. A point [...]

What do you think of first when you hear the word “sustainability”? Do you think of solar panels?  hybrid cars?  Clean Coal? air pollution? If you are in the US or EU, chances are that you think of those issues (which are legitimate) as that is what the green movement has been able to push [...]

China’s Energy – Challenges and Strategies by Professor Ni Weidou Academician, Chinese Academy of Science “We are running out of the atmosphere faster than we’re running out of fossil fuels” 5 Challenges in China: 1) Huge pressure for energy by 2020. From 2010 to 2020 energy demand will double according to estimates that are under-calculating; [...]

The WWF in China has been in China longer than any other environmental NGOs.  Originally invited by the Ministry of Forestry to assist on Pandas, they have grown across China and now manage a wide variety of programs related to the environmental conditions. In their recent report, Ecological Footprint in China, WWF worked with the [...]

Prior to the games, I wrote the post Post-Olympics: Will China Continue to Green? where I asked threw out the question of whether or not China would continue to take steps forward in cleaning up its environmental issues.. or if it would slide backwards into old habits. When thinking about this, I am forced to [...]