Cleaner Greener China

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 many maintain their eyes on the growing cleantech war that is “being waged” between the US and China, Christina Larson has kept her eye on the prize in her latest work for Circle of Blue, Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep: The Freshwater Crisis in China’s Karst Regions.
Based in Yunnan province, the 9 minutes [...]

For a city that has been so aggressive to increase water supplies, I am often surprised that so little is done to reduce demand.
It would seem that action is now being taken.
According to the Xinhua article  Beijing holds public hearing on water price hike, the city is now looking to raise the price of water [...]

For many, the terms Global Warming and Carbon are terms that stir up emotion and calls to “do something”. That, in the words of one friend, it has become a near religious belief in intangible proofs that we are now asking governments to invest billions, consumers to start thinking, and corporations to start sharing [...]

For those of you who have grown weary of all the “talk”, and are looking for a tangible program that has the potential for big things, then I encourage you to read this article, read this speech, and learn more about IBM’s recent partnership with Shenyang to monitor its water use.
Not the first water management [...]

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During a conversation last week between myself and the strategic director of a global eNGO, the topic of industrial based programs came up. It was a conversation that she and I had had in the past as part of a project to help them target [...]

When discussing “sustainability”, the topic of populations is one of those topics that can quickly lose out to solar panels, cap and trade, and biofuels.
The problem is that population is a core consideration not only in looking back in history, but in plotting the path forward, and it is the subject of a recent study [...]

In what I belive is one of the first steps in teh right direction to relieving the pressure of China’s water table, reservoirs, and Hebei province itself, officials in Beijing are now looking to increase the price of water.
According to the China.org report Beijing looks to dampen demand for scarce water, the primary catalyst [...]

Following Greenpeace’s report on the usage of pesticides in China, I was alerted to a video Greenpeace posted on the same topic where members of the Greenpeace team go out to the farm to capture some footage of what goes on inside the green houses.
Needless to say, I am glad to be meeting with members [...]