Cleaner Greener China

China’s Energy – Challenges and Strategies by Professor Ni Weidou Academician, Chinese Academy of Science
“We are running out of the atmosphere faster than we’re running out of fossil fuels”
5 Challenges in China: 1) Huge pressure for energy by 2020. From 2010 to 2020 energy demand will double according to estimates that are under-calculating; 2) Shortage [...]

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Wang Mengjie, Director of China Centre for Rural Energy Research and Training, in 2002 submitted the 4 page article Biogas Technology and Ecological Environment Development IN Rural Areas Of China (PDF Download Here) at the First International Conference on Ecological Sanitation
While not a technical paper, Wang gives some nice support for the use of biogas [...]

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Steve Papermaster - Powershift Ventures - President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
US Energy issues 2008/ 2009
- volatility in oil markets has highlighted the concept of “global markets”
- investment oil exploration and production resumed, but many projects have been delayed
- ethanol drove food prices up
Trends that are historically not predictable on the short term, [...]

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For me, there are few issues more important than water in China.  It is a resource that is becoming scarce in the North, and for many, its contamination is an issue that threatens economic security and health.
to that end, I want to highlight the recently released World Bank report Water Pollution Emergencies In China, prevention [...]

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Several years back while working in the valuation industry, I learned just how attractive China’s water management/ waste management was to outside investment.
It was certainly an area that we all knew needed help, as some recent examples show, but at the time the deals were still few and far between.  The statistics that 60-70% of [...]

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With a chronic shortage of water plaguing much of China’s north and northwest regions, investment in water technologies like drip irrigation are gaining the attention of local officials who are looking to support their regions.
Previously used in Israel and other areas where access to water is severly limitied, the early tests of Xinjiang’s drip irrigation [...]

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UK Trade & Investment has come out with a guide on Opportunities for Environmental Industries in China (PDF HERE), and I would suggest that anyone who is manufacturing or marketing green products look at this document to learn more about China’s landscape.
At a brief 2 pages, this document gives a couple of paragraphs on Air, [...]

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For China, algae blooms are an issue they have been dealing with for a long time.  In the last 2 years, there has been international coverage of blooms in Wuxi (China’s 3rd largest lake) and Qingdao (right before the Olympics), but the problem is much larger and has a longer history.
When covering the issues last [...]

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Located an hour away from Beijing in the Binhai area, Tianjin has a long history as a port city and a commercial city.  Its 11 million people are know to be strong in industry, and the government has spent a lot of time and energy in creating it as a financial services hub as well [...]

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Developing biomass from cellulose has been a key step for many, and two Chinese scientists (one based in China and one in the US) have developed a way using tungsten carbide to split the cellulose into its sugar components so that those components can be fermented into biomass.
Where this research may yield benefits is (1) [...]

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