Welcome to contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn!

We’ve added another person to our team!

My name is Sophia Mendelsohn, which the Chinese translate into “Su Fei.”
I am living in Shanghai and have been for three years. Each year we watch as the city grows increasingly international, but becomes a little grayer up above our heads. It is no doubt that you can [...]

The Economist: China is a hungry dragon

Anyone see this week’s issue of The Economist?

Read the introduction for a good overview of what the 14-page special report entails:
China is bound to consume enormous amounts of raw materials as it develops. But given how polluted the country already is, and how much unrest that pollution is causing, it should curb its hunger for [...]

The Library Project: Winter newsletter

(Photo courtesy of The Library Project)
A letter from Tom Stader of The Library Project, an initiative that has helped establish 20 libraries in rural elementary schools throughout China.
“Over the past three months The Library Project created twenty libraries in rural elementary schools throughout China. More than thirty thousand books were donated with each school receiving [...]

The China Business Network: URBN Hotel & Resorts

Christine Lu of The China Business Network brings us another great podcast about URBN Hotels & Resorts, an eco-friendly boutique hotel and resort company based in Shanghai. The company’s first luxury hotel, a 28-room property catered to design-focused “urban world travelers,” bills itself as being China’s first carbon neutral hotel.
URBN Hotels’ vision is to expand [...]

February APECC newsletter

I know, I know, it’s a bit overdue. But still relevant.
Check out these highlights from the February newsletter of the Auto Project on Energy and Climate Change (APECC):

Beijing to build energy stockpiles for the Olympics
New emission standards postpone auto price wars
Building starts on gas pipe

Polluters [...]