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Sophia Mendelsohn

Sophia Mendelsohn has written 8 posts for ResponsibleChina.com: Environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship in China.

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Green Olympic Sponsors: Coca-Cola…going blue?

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ July 18, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

There isn’t a blog out there who hasn’t reminded us that green is the color of money and trees, can be turned to ‘gold,’ or found in ‘red’ China.
Green isn’t enough anymore, though, because now we have a new color scheme to overuse—blue, like the color of water. Coco-Cola, and other companies, like General Electric, [...]

Ape Goes Extinct in China: Missing in the forests and in the press

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ July 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Image via Science Daily)
The white-handed gibbon, which used to live in Yunnan Province, has been declared extinct after not having been seen for twenty years. Scientists are calling the loss particularly tragic since the sub-species was unique to China.
It joins a long list of long-gone (or almost gone) monkeys and apes in China.
What I find [...]

Green Olympic sponsors: General Electric

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ July 9, 2008 ⋅ One comment

“On television the Olympics looks like an athletic event, but on location it’s a big business convention,” says president of a brand research firm to the New York Times, explaining why corporations are putting so much money into the 2008 games.
Sponsoring the Olympics is a long-term, expensive deal for companies, but they do it because [...]

Whoa, baby, organic clothes in China!

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Chinese products have been called “toxic” and created mass consumer unease recently, so China is not the obvious place to start looking for organic baby clothes. Still, with the population’s buying power and manufacturing capacity, baby clothes could be one of the most important markets for China’s economy. Sherry Poon, founder and owner [...]

China NPOs and companies offset carbon footprint in Inner Mongolia

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ May 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Image via Small Worlds Magazine)
We are all bombarded with information about our “footprint” and how big and bad it is. But what exactly are we supposed to be doing with this information in China, a country where “green” can be few and far between?
Two groups, Shanghai Roots & Shoots and SCMC, a Coca-Cola vendor, are [...]