Cleaner Greener China

Seems food is a hot topic these days in greater China, and in reviewing some other materials I came across this presentation by Dr. Guillermo Moreno at Sparks! 2009 Hong Kong event.
Unlike many of the other recent posts we have put up, this one is focused on non-terrestrial food sources – the aquatics.. and the [...]

One of the more recent Asia Society videos caught my eye, Organics in Asia, as it contained within it several bits on China. The first of which was from Stoneyfield CEO (chapter 2) , who says he spent time in China from ‘79 – ‘86 (a true old China hand) who focused on the [...]

Located in Songjiang, Tongchu ‘s farm is about an hour’s drive from downtown Puxi and quite easy to get to. Driving southwest and once you leave the downtown freeways and roads the agricultural fields are suddenly noticeable and a contrast to the other farm areas we’ve visited so far. There are [...]

A bit of a rant here, but why is it that within many of Shanghai’s restaurants it is still considered acceptable to smoke a cigar?  Over the weekend, while enjoying my lunch with a friend in a cafe where the entire menu is “healthy” a patron came in a lite up a cigar, which naturally [...]

Tony’s Farm is located in Nanhui district and by car is just over an hour from downtown Puxi . It’s a large scale commercial operation with 280 acres of organic vegetables surrounded by other farm and agricultural land. Unlike some of the other organic farms this is a huge project and they [...]

Hi everyone, my name is Kimberly and I have recently been asked to contribute to this website in the area of health, food, nutrition & well-being. I’ve been in China for almost 8 and a half years and have always been conscious of our surroundings in terms or air, water, food but [...]

While attending the JUCCCE conference last year, I began to understand that when looking at clean technologies, or otherwise making the case for “sustainability”, it was important to understand the health costs to remaining brown.
That in the end, policy makers and agency officials would eventually connect the dots and begin making investments into sustainability as [...]

For years, the warnings of a deteriorating environment on the health of the Chinese population have been there, and over the last 2 years it is clear that these warnings have grown in number and in urgency.
However, to date, there has been no official release that has directly linked the two.
Until now:
A five-year study on [...]

WWF, Greenpeace, and The Energy Foundation have just released the 74 page report The True Cost of Coal (PDF Here) that looks at the role of coal in China’s society.. and its toll on the society.
To introduce the topics of the report, Greenpeace has loaded the video below that runs through a number of the [...]

Earlier this year, I was introduced to Goji berries by a friend in Shanghai who had established operations in Ningxia, and from Essential Living Foods we are given a little more insight into the collection and production of the berries
you can learn more about the benefits of Goji berries at Alternative Medicine