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Beijing Olympic Village is world’s first green neighborhood

Read the original press release here. The Beijing Olympic Village is the first Olympic Village to achieve certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system.  The 42 buildings that housed 17,000 athletes from around the world earned a Gold rating, one step below the highest Platinum rating. The residential complex is [...]

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Responsible Roundup: Yao Ming the champ, costly clean air, a new library, sustainable Olympics, green dragon, and fancy footwear

A roundup of this week’s interesting and important stories, brought to you by ResponsibleChina.com. YAO MING IS A CHAMPION IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. Sure, he’s China’s most famous superstar athlete. But did you know he’s also the UN Environment Programme’s first-ever Environmental Champion? Found this scoop via China Crossroads. Maybe that cute little kid Yao walked [...]

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AmCham Shanghai: Sustainability Conference

Please see my 30 Boxes Calendar for this listing. Enter the Green Dragon China’s Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green AmCham Shanghai’s Sustainability Conference Thursday, September 11, 2008 Grand Hyatt Shanghai Tickets Now on Sale at the AmCham Office! Shanghai Centre, Suite 568 1376 Nanjing Road West Shanghai, China 200040 Phone: (8621) 6279-7119 Fax: (8621) 6279-7643 E-mail:amcham@amcham-shanghai.org Website: www.amcham-shanghai.org How does building “green” in China [...]

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Op-Ed: Chinese environmentalism

An essay by my friend and former classmate Timothy Gutmann, who currently teaches English in Beijing and studies Chinese.  A Boston University graduate, he hopes to return to America to study East Asian and Islamic modern philosophy. ===== By Timothy Gutmann Environmentalists have felt justly skeptical of China’s claims of a “Green Olympics.” Quantitatively, greens can find [...]

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Green Olympic sponsor: ExxonMobil

I’ve been watching Olympics coverage on NBC like a fiend. It’s an addiction. Those dramatic intros, that heart-pulsing music, those bite-size pieces of sports footage and that occasionally dorky commentary by Bob Costas–it’s pure entertainment. And let’s face it, I have Phelps Phever. I even friended him on Facebook. And those commercials! I practically shed a [...]

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RespChi: Work in Progress

Notice anything different about our blog? Well, it's been just over a year since I started this site, and I think it's time for a bit of a makeover. You'll notice some snags and glitches and inconsistencies as I tweak some design elements...so please bear with me. In the meantime, be patient and stay tuned! Thank you!

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• Want to work in Paris? Applications are being accepted from now until August 9 for a Project Assistant position at the International Energy Agency's Division for Asia Pacific and Latin America (DALSA) in the IEA's Office of Global Energy Dialogue. Apply through www.oecd.org. Or check out our job board listing.
• Have you seen EPCBU, yet? It's a new website that compiles case studies of CSR initiatives in China. Check out RespChi blogger Sophia Mendelsohn's write-up of General Electric's Ecomagination strategy.
• In case you didn't notice, ResponsibleChina.com is now being hosted through a "carbon-neutral" Web host, called Dreamhost. Read more about it here.
• Are you interested in China's sustainable development? Want to work on energy efficiency and renewable energy policy development? Check out this job listing on my ResponsibleChina.com JobThread job board: Program Officer, Electric Utilities and Renewable Energy.