Cleaner Greener China: Clean Technology, Green Products, New Ideas, Clean China

With last week’s congressional fireworks display over the fact that a Chinese firm was going to be receiving TARP money to install the largest wind farm in Texas, and be reaping the majority of the jobs in the deal, it should come as no surprise that Chinese firms are now announcing investments in the US. [...]

Rarely a day passes without a headline like Al Gore praised China and Japan on their climate leadership, which touts all that is great about China’s commitment to green, and how China’s leadership should serve as a model for others. It was a recent topic of conversation between myself and an old friend who has [...]

While getting over the disappointing events surrounding COP15, I thought I would highlight the successes of a single program in Beijing Converting 160,000 homes in Beijing from Coal to electric heaters. This project alone, according to one official in the Biejing EPA: The action could help to reduce sulfur dioxide emission by 190 tons and [...]

An interesting 6 and a half minute clip on two villages in Guizhou and their fuel feed stocks. In the first village (Bird), you have the old way of gathering fire wood and using coal to provide the fuel source for warmth and cooling.  While in the other, you have the biogas separator which takes [...]

…. the COP15 talks, which will try to establish a global action plan for mitigating carbon emissions, are expected to have a positive impact on the global clean technology sector even without a comprehensive global agreement necessarily being reached A few issues with the above quote, from a recent Cleantech Press Release: 1) Are we [...]

Recent news clip on CCTV where 10 coal firms have reportedly signed onto “clean coal”

With less than a month to go to COP 15, Alex Pasternack at Treehugger has loaded a very interesting dialogue he recently had with Yang Fuqiang of WWF. See Part 1 and Part 2 Perhaps one of the most experienced persons on the issues, in China, his background lends his thoughts significant weight: For more [...]

Tianjin’s Economic Development Zone (TEDA) has been one of the premier investment zones in China, and keeping in mind their proximity to the new Singapore invested ecocity, it should come as no surprise that this would lead to some very large cleantech projects for TEDA. Here are three that they recently reported out as part [...]

Following the recent moves in Hong Kong to clean the air, and reduce their footprint, policymakers have come together on another program meant to have a positive impact. As detailed in the People’s Daily Online article Energy efficiency labeling to be a must in Hong Kong: Air conditioners, refrigerators and compact fluorescent lamps for sale [...]

On three separate occasions over the last few months I have spoken to, or worked with, a group in Shanghai who was looking at the opportunity of start up bike sharing programs across Shanghai, and to bring back the bike. These conversations, it seems, are ones that are going on all over China, and there [...]