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

For the last 10 days I have been running a “bootcamp” over at school to wrap up the first semester of the 2009 MBA class. Designed to give the students a last chance to get their green learn on before presentations and papers were finalized, we brought in external experts in green buildings, consumers and [...]

Apologies for the long title. I have just read through the recent piece by William Chandler of the Carnegie Endowment entitled Memo to Copenhagen: Commentary is Misinformed—China’s Commitment is Significant, and left to believe that someone drank a little too much carbon punch at the COP15 preparty. Typically someone I agree with, Chandler goes off [...]

Fresh off several conferences and meetings where discussions centered around smart grid, wind power, and other renewable energies, yesterdays tour of the Shanghai Municipal Waste Facility proved to be a very interesting site visit.  Operational for 3 years now, this facility (one of two facilities in Shanghai) incinerates about 1500 tons of trash a day [...]

Shanghai cyclists keep riding to keep the skies blue On Saturday Shanghai residents turned up in force to show their support for biking as a cleaner healthier transport choice for Shanghai. The launch event for Good to Shanghai; 01 Coolbike started at the Specialized store in Pu Xi, and riders set off in the winter [...]

Less than 6 months away, a lot of discussion surrounding the Shanghai EXPO’s green content has been taking place as the pavilions are close to being finished, and a number of initiatives by the various pavilions have themselves looked to show their “green”. … and there is also the UNEP Expo Report, which spends 150 [...]

Green Drinks will be held this Wednesday 9th December, at the Philia Lounge at 4-8 Arbuthnot Road, Central. It is very close to Lang Kwai Fong, for a map visit http://www.philialounge.com/. We’ll be there around the same time, from 7pm onwards. This month Dr Merrin Pearse will be presenting on ‘Seeing the future of business [...]

One of the graphs that was presented at the Copenhagen Business School conference I attended last week was from Professor Andrew Hoffman of University of Michigan.  Covering both Economics and Environment, Hoffman was able to bridge a number of very important topics related to what we view as “common practices”. … and he had a [...]

Day two at the Beijing smart grid conference: After spending much of the first day of the Beijing Smart grid conference discussing the definition and scope of smart grid for China, the second day of the conference was focused on how smartgrid was going to be rolled out, what some of the solutions would be, [...]

While many in China, and out, have been focused on the impressive speed by which China has been able to grow its economy over the last 15 years, those inside the central party have been focused on ensuring that the economic energy had its energy needs met. Made difficult by the fact that the highest [...]

The recent Wired article China Enters the Carpool Lane highlighted an interesting hurdle that I would have NEVER considered to be an issue for those looking to carpool Despite increasing the ever-present layer of smog in major cities, carpooling has yet to catch on in China. That’s mostly because carpool organizers fear being charged with [...]