Introducing the ResponsibleChina Podcast: Doug Ross, CapitolEcoWatch.com

I’m experimenting with podcasts now!
Check out my VERY FIRST EPISODE, an interview with Doug Ross, an environmentalist and producer from CapitolEcoWatch.com, a new Web site that posts video and podcasts from Washington D.C., covering environmental investigations, legislation, links to governmental agencies and NGOs, and daily news related to green issues.
I was first introduced to Ross [...]

NYT: China ‘Choking on Growth’

The New York Times presents “a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis.”

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
By Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley
August 26, 2007

Summary: China is either unwilling or unable to make changes to improve the environment. As a result, public [...]

Oh, YouTube, you make Mondays better…

ResponsibleChina is taking a break from regularly scheduled programming to bring you this hilarious video clip of two Scots in a hot air balloon flying over somewhere in Yangshuo. And then crashing.

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Hot Air Balloon Crash in China
01:09 - March 13, 2007
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WSJ: Textile industry ravages China’s rivers

We know the story by now. Chinese factories are churning out cheap goods and harmful pollutants, all in the name of explosive economic growth and competition in the global marketplace.But not too much is said about the role multinationals play in the country’s pollution problem.
Jane Spencer from The Wall Street Journal writes about the high [...]

Evan Osnos: U.S., China, addicted to each other

…heard from Danwei.org….
Evan Osnos, Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, talks to Stephen Colbert about cashmere farms and their detrimental effects on the environment and the global economy.

According to Osnos, the demand for cheap cashmere from China is speeding up the desertification of grasslands in northern China, where cashmere goats trample around the land, [...]