Posted by Eric Young in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Well, what can I say about my trip to a ‘developing’ country with a culture over 5,000 years old? It was one of the most rewarding trips I have ever taken but to say it was fun in would be...continued→
Posted by Jon Coifman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Mark your calendars, folks. This is the week that China starts exporting wind turbines to the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal’s energy blog, Mingyang Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd., has inked it’s first American deal for...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
It's a beautiful day in Beijing today, which made me think about this picture someone sent me a few months ago:This is a photo of Beijing on two consecutive days about a year ago in 2006. This, in a single...continued→
Posted by Apollo Gonzales
I am a geek of the worst kind. I am an electronics gadget geek. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a lover of many other geeky things, like comics and video games, but nothing else comes close to my obsession with...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Pollution is causing rainfall to decrease in certain parts of China. A little noticed study published in Science earlier this year, somewhat opaquely entitled “Inverse Relations between Amounts of Air Pollution and Orographic Precipitation,” found that average precipitation in a...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China , Living Sustainably
It’s no secret that the products that fuel our daily consumer lives in the U.S. are now overwhelmingly produced in China. Try living a year without buying anything “Made in China” and see how you like it (one woman seems...continued→
Posted by John Walke in Greening China , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
What do Chinese Communist Party air pollution officials share in common with Bush administration air pollution officials?Resort to the rhetoric of “averages” when it comes to obscuring and excusing air pollution.A front page story in today’s Washington Post examines the...continued→
Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China
Claudia Deutch has an interesting interview with George Feldenkreis, Chairman of the Perry Ellis clothing label in the Saturday edition of the New York Times (which I am increasingly convinced is a more interesting paper than the vaunted Sunday bundle)....continued→
Posted by Jon Coifman in Greening China
Coverage of the heatlh and environmental challenges that await athletes and spectators at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China is starting to heat up. Chinese officials have been promising significant cuts the country’s famously terrible air pollution, but results so...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
The hot topic in Beijing this week is whether the murky haze of smog that usually covers the city will be lifted when the world's athletes begin to descend on Beijing in August 2008. This summer certainly hasn't been pretty...continued→
The director of NRDC's smart growth program, Kaid Benfield is the author of several books, including Once There Were Greenfields and Solving Sprawl.
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