Cleaner Greener China

In yet another example of just how anything is possible in China (especially when you close factories by the dozens), the good folks in Biejing have announced that they have meet their 2008 blue sky air targets a month early.
As part of the clean air program, the authorities shifted most of the high-polluting plants, including [...]

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Being known for its natural beauty, nice climate, and clean air is somethign that th ecity of Kunming is apparently looking to protect. :

The 60-strong police force, formed under the municipal public security bureau on Tuesday, is responsible for dealing with criminal acts in environmental pollution within the city, as well as assisting the environment [...]

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In the article Official warns environmental pollution no longer acceptable, I saw the strongest statement to date that officials and agencies are finally understanding the tradoff between economic growth and the environmnet:
Yangzonghai Lake, famous for its springs, was found to contain arsenic in June in the Yuxi City section. A local company named Jinye Industry [...]

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What do you think of first when you hear the word “sustainability”?
Do you think of solar panels?  hybrid cars?  Clean Coal? air pollution?
If you are in the US or EU, chances are that you think of those issues (which are legitimate) as that is what the green movement has been able to push into the [...]

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Returning from their period of Youtube silence, China’s Green Beat has returned with their latest video. Focused onthe Nu River, in Southwest China, this video marks a departure from their hisotrically slap stick based environmental lessons, but the topic is equally as important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcCHwyPLP2U

To learn more about the conditions of Nu River, and its damming, you [...]

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Even with the recent rise in awareness, and seemingly endless announcements that things were changing at the highest levels, there is yet another sobering reminder of the costs of economic development.
The pollution on China’s Yellow River, mother river, is worsening…
the organization monitored 12,510.8 km of the Yellow River system, of which, 31.1 percent were found [...]

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The Reuters report China cuts key water, air pollutants in early 2008 offers readers some hope that some of the recent actions taken to curb pollution may be working.
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), a measure of water pollution, dropped by 2.5 percent from the same period last year as new sewage plants came online, while sulphur [...]

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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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During last week’s JUCCCE Conference, we were introduced to the new TV Series Red Hot Green China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuwVgFCt9I

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WWF recently released their 2008 Living Planet Report that lays out a compelling case for how interconnected our activities are with the rest of the earth, and the impact we in our process of extracting and consuming the earth’s resources are having.
The Living Planet Report is WWF’s periodic update on the state of the world’s [...]

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