Cleaner Greener China

Rarely is there a day where I have the joy of pointing out a case of clear cut greenwashing, but today is different.
As reported in the China CSR article Korean Air Issues Environmentally-friendly Bags In Beijing:
Korean Air recently launched an environmental campaign at Beijing’s Oriental Plaza where it handed out 5,000 environmentally-friendly bags to advocate [...]

While the traditional focus of discussions surrounding cleantech uptake have been largely market driven. That, for renewable energies to compete with fossil fuels, the price per KwH had to be below the going rate for fossil, regardless of what the negative economic, environmental, or political externalities were.   It was what seemed to me an unreasonable [...]

For those of you in Beijing Dec 3 adn 4, or have the ability to get there on short notice, I thought you might like to know about the undermarketed 2009 China International Smart Grid Forum being held.
Organized by China Decision Makers, the forum has an impressive list of delegates and speakers, and yours truly [...]

After hundreds of photographs, 2 punctures, mud-soaked shoes and burning quads, I returned home to Shanghai to begin work again after the National Holiday. Over the break, I went on an amazing journey with a group called China Charity Challenge (CCC). CCC aspires to develop a successful model for adventure travel connected to good causes [...]

Following my post on last month’s “improvement” in air quality in Beijing, Shanghai greeted us with what I hope is the last of their Pre-EXPO crappy days.
For those of you who are curious as to what is behind the “fog”, my suggestion would be to take a drive to Zhejiang as this is about the [...]

the first time I was introduced to China’s Hakka houses, I was still a student in Beijing. I literally dragged by Chinese teacher to the TV, and then had her call the TV station to figure out where these amazing structures were.
Years later, while in Shanghai, I was reintroduced to these houses by a [...]

Even with the recent news that the power to be have decided to transform the Copenhagen session to COP-Lite being a let down (I wasn’t surprised.. just arg..) , I am fortunate that for the early part of next week I will be participating at the pre-COP Copenhagen Business School conference Sustainable Leadership in the [...]

Regardless of whether you believe COP15 still has hope, or is a predetermined failure, the fact is that in about 3 weeks a large number of scientists, environmentalists, policy makers, and cleantech funds are going to be in Copenhagen… and the world will be watching.
Even prior to the recent announcements from Singapore though, many had [...]

Tuesday of next week, the Foreign Corespondents Club of Beijing will be hosting an event not to be missed.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have agreed that they have run out of time to forge a treaty on greenhouse gas reductions at next month’s global warming summit in Copenhagen. The summit’s chairman, Danish [...]

Another fine example of how some choose to treat the city as their trash can.