Cornell student: ‘IP is Green’

Heard it from IP Dragon:
Matt Perkins, who studies sustainable energy and Chinese at Cornell University, writes this post, “Intellectual Property is Green,” on his blog for The Cornell Daily Sun:
a critical component of solving China’s environmental issues (and protecting both the U.S.’s and China’s economic vitality), is greater IP enforcement.
Read the full article here.

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Dirty Water, Water Everywhere

(Photo via China Digital Times)
Thank you to IP Dragon for alerting me to this…
Jamil Anderlini and Mure Dickie from the Financial Times write about China’s water problem (see: algae blooms, chemical spills, polluting companies)
“Taking the waters“
Financial Times
By Jamil Anderlini and Mure Dickie
July 24, 2007
Across large swaths of China’s rapidly industrialising countryside, polluted water is [...]

July 23, 2007: Responsible Round-Up

Some of the top news stories of today…
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Office workers finding it harder to breathe easy
China Daily
July 23, 2007

Pent-up office workers dissatisfied with not enough money and free [...]

Facebook’s goin’ green!

Facebook added yet another application to its growing arsenal of personalization tools. This time, it’s about being “green.”

I Am Green
When we commit to doing something good, we inspire each other to do that, and more. We’re creating a powerful, virtuous cycle of Green action.
So far, “I Am Green” is used by only 17 [...]

Cakes + photos + flamingoes = Luo Hong

(Photo credit: Luo Hong, via China Daily.)
Chinese photographer Luo Hong was featured in the People’s Daily Online for no particular newsworthy reason other than that he is “hopelessly” in love with flamingoes and dedicated to saving the environment through his art. (See a gallery of his images at the China Daily site.)
Flamingoes are the [...]