Monthly Archives: July 2008

Planned Gansu Wind Farm Accounced

CCTV has uploaded a recent report on a Gansu wind farm that is being planned to be the largest in China, and will put out more energy than the Three Gorges Dam The report concludes with the statistic that China … Continue reading

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Post-Olympics: Will China Continue to Green?

With less than a month to go, a lot of international press have focused on Beijing’s air quality, food cleanliness, visa policies, and general foreign friendly clean up. Many in the government have doubled their efforts to make sure the … Continue reading

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McKinsey Test: Managing the Urbanization of a Chinese City

As part of the release of the Meeting the challenges Of China’s growing cities, the folks at McKinsey have put together a fantastic flash based game on managing Chinese cities. Like Sim City for arm chair urban planners, this can … Continue reading

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China to Introduce Consumption Tax on Gas Gusslers

For a few years now, I ahve been saying that if I were President of the United States I would introduce a sliding sales tax scale that would tie a cars MPG and weight to the amount of tax paid. … Continue reading

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Deqingyuan Chicken Eggs

As part of the Market Movers Series, the IFC and sustainability have released a profile of three sustainable enterprises they have been working with.  One of them is the Deqingyuan Chicken farm. Located near Beijing, the Deqingyuan Chicken Farm is … Continue reading

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Yangtze River Algae Blooms

Las tyear, the story of Wuxi’s algae blooms was still fresh in everyone’s mind, and 3 weeks ago it was Qingdao’s. The problem is that there have been dozens of other blooms in other locations, and for me one of … Continue reading

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Volunteers Needed at GIGA

GIGA: Green Ideas: Green Action greening the world we make… Mission statement: We live in a designed world. Everything we make, use and discard has been designed by someone, somewhere. Most of it is unsustainable and designers are the source. … Continue reading

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URBN Hotel: China’s First Carbon Neutral Hotel

Part of the fun of being a “blogger” is “access”, and a couple of months ago I got a couple of friends to sit down in front of the camera to discuss their project, the URBN Hotel. There is a … Continue reading

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Welcome to Cleaner Greener China

Welcome everyone to Cleaner Greener China. This is Rich Brubaker, your host, and I would like to welcome you to my new experiment. This platform will look at products, policies, technologies, businesses, and entrepreneurs who that provide solutions. Think of … Continue reading

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