Cleaner Greener China

Making what seems like regular trips to Beijing these days, I still find the reports that Beijing’s air quality has maintained itself following the Olympics .. curious… and I took out my iPhone this morning while on the way to the airport to show readers just what I am talking about.
The picture is taken from [...]

Over the weekend,  I found the recently release World Resource Institute Report China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge.  As the title suggests, and as has been popular recently, it looked at the relationships and responsibilities of China and the US to address climate change:
discusses the successes and challenges to effective regulation in [...]

For those of you who are looking for a way to get involved on a personal level, come out to this weekend’s 350 event in People’s Square. Irving Steel, organizer of Green Drinks, is leading the charge

What is 350? 什么是350？
We will teach you and others. 我们将会讲授给你们。
When: Saturday 3:50 PM at People’s Park entrance [...]

I am not sure whether it was under the influence of my Econ 101 professor, or my father the energy consultant, but somewhere along the way it was beaten (not literally) into my head the the more expensive an item is on an incremental basis you make something… the less people will use of it.
They [...]

This weekend, I gave my first keynote speech entitled What Sustainability Means to Me at the ecodesign fair.
It was a speech that required a lot out of me, more than most, because I had to not only boil down several years of ranting into 30 minutes.  I had to do it in front of people [...]

While preparing my speech for tomorrow’s ecoDesign fair “What Sustainability Means to Me”, Julian Wong’s tweet from alerted me to the People’s Daily article Hong Kong to step up effort to make the city greener.
It was fortuitous timing as I was just in the section where that was to cover the common definitions of sustainability, [...]

If you are in Shanghai this Saturday, and come out to URBN hotel and see what is going on at the EcoDesign Fair, perhaps the best event for all things green that Shanghai has to offer!
Full details are below:
This Fall 2009, the Eco Design Fair will focus on bringing together a growing eco-conscious community in [...]

Hi Everyone – still in the US and technically on holiday ( I am sitting in a conference room all day), but received this email from Max Henry over at the Supply Chain Council.
Please take the time to fill out the survey!  I was recently having a discussion with Max on the the need to [...]