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July 31, 2007: Responsible Bloggers

A take a look around the blogosphere to see who’s writing about China’s environment (in the natural and corporate world…)

Entrepreneurial researchers from the world’s largest giant panda research base in Sichuan Province have put the 300 tons of droppings produced by 60 giant pandas each year to good use - making photo frames, bookmarks, fans and panda statues out of them and then reselling them.

Does criticism of China’s environment border on racism?

The China Anti-Corruption Culture Gaming Net, sponsored by the Ningbo government, is about to launch a new online game that fights official corruption in its many insidious forms.

Two American bloggers based in southern China’s Guangzhou city are gearing up for a year’s worth of blogging trips which will take them through all twenty-two provinces in mainland China and see them raising funds for charities, offering scholarships for Chinese students to go study in the West as well as raising funds to cover medical costs for people struggling with cancer back in the heavily-industrialized Pearl River Delta, where cancer rates run high.

The biofuels boom continues and its most recent beneficiary is UK-listed China New Energy, which has raised up to $20m of new funds via the issue of convertible bonds.

China New Energy, based in Guangzhou, makes turnkey ethanol production equipment and it has supplied over 30 projects in China, producing not just fuel ethanol but also edible ethanol and acetic acid.

China’s coal consumption for generating electricity soared nearly 18% in the first half of this year from a year ago despite rising concern about pollution and the government’s much-vaunted desire to promote cleaner energy sources.

The conclusion is grim but, I have to agree, accurate: many of the efforts to close down polluting factories are cosmetic, short-term fixes.

It’s not the protests or activists that will create an Olympic crisis for China. It is a bungled response to such protests that would do it. People expect protests, and they’re not going to be shocked to see them. What will shock them is a poorly thought-out or brutal overreaction to such protests

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One comment for “July 31, 2007: Responsible Bloggers”

  1. Boycott the 2008 games, untill China stops supporting the Sudan Goverment.

    Posted by s.blanchfield | July 31, 2007, 10:16 pm

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