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

For anyone looking to come down from 30,000 feet to get their hands dirty with Green Buildings, then I recommend checking out this Saturday’s GIGA event (1:00 – 5:30pm). Full details are at their website (click here), but here is the basics: Schedule: 13:00 – 13:30: registration and networking 13:30 – 13:45: event introduction and [...]

Here are three clips from CNN as part of their Ecosolutions series that I thought readers would find interesting as, for no other reason, these are three CNN videos focused more on what is going right here in China on the issue of sustainability. Clip 1: China’s Green Plans – focused on (as the title [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the subjects that I have grown more interested in, and worried by, is the fact that while developing sustainable economic and environmental models are in everyone’s best interests there are those who wish to look at things in a different light. That, rather that developing technologies with a priority of solving environmental failures [...]