Cleaner Greener China

One of the things I am finding, no matter where I am, is that people concerned about global warming, air pollution, or other environmental issues have a hard time finding information about how they can help.  In many ways, they are still looking to understand and learn about their relationship to the issues.
It is a [...]

With all the discussion on how bad the cleantech market has been with the financial crisis, it is good to see that both Vestas and Renesola are both still finding markets in China at a time when China’s energy consumption is on the decline.
Perhaps we will see in a couple years, when the demand comes [...]

h/t Inhabitat for highlighting this amazing new building by Studio Shift.
to be built in Miyi County, the Miyi tower is actually being designed to do more than any of its peers.
It will filter water.
The tower will also serve as a bridge that will connect the northern part of the New South Town with the southern [...]

Speak to a few dozen firms, read a couple hundred press releases, or make your way through a few sustainability reports, and you will begin to develop a baseline by which to judge firms.
One of the firms that I learned about through my friends in textiles was the Esquel Group.
Esquel manufactures for the world’s best [...]

Returning to the issue of water, an issue that concerns us more than any other in China, the article Province prepares for prolonged drought fight provides a lot of information about the conditions found in Shanxi:

Shanxi had only received 20.4 millimeters of rain since October 2008, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said.
In [...]

China’s dead seas were the highlight of the Olympic run up as Qingdao Bay caked over in a thick green algae, and unfortuanelty, while the press had a field day with the story, the problem is
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/16/content_10671241.htm

The news that Jiangxi is set to build its first garbage incineration power plant, comes as welcoming news as I spent last week driving by farmland on fire.
The Urban Appearance and Environmental Administration Bureau of Nanchang City recently signed an agreement with the Hong Kong-based Biomax Green Energy Group to build Jiangxi Province’s first domestic [...]

Last weekend, while shopping in City Shop, I came across a new brand of organic goods that I have not seen before.
Green Dot Dot – English Site here
A trading firm of the HK based Kampery group, Green Dot Dot sources goods from around the world for sale into the Greater China region – with [...]

While the US and other countries back away from renewable energy investments, the recent story China blasts through wind energy target, offers evidence that China has put the pedal to the metal:
China’s wind power industry, dominated by the ‘big five’ state-owned electric power companies, increased the country’s total installed wind power capacity to approximately 12.8GW [...]