Beijing Olympic Village is world’s first green neighborhood

Read the original press release here.
The Beijing Olympic Village is the first Olympic Village to achieve certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system.  The 42 buildings that housed 17,000 athletes from around the world earned a Gold rating, one step below the highest Platinum rating. The residential complex is [...]

The Beijing Olympics are greener than you think

I can’t help but open this post with a scientific fact: the Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games kicked some serious sit bone.
Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony Video Links:

United States coverage

China coverage

With 5,000 years of rich culture to draw upon, the Opening Ceremony was thoughtful and mesmerizing.  I was transfixed, really, just STARING as the scroll [...]

Chinese copycats: pirates or hero innovators?

A note from Erica:
Here’s an interesting departure from our regularly scheduled blogging about the environment and the Olympics, which often dominates the coverage here on RespChi.
Beijing-based blogger Van Yang writes about CSR in the context of intellectual property rights, something which I briefly mentioned last year, in response to an article by Cornell University Matt [...]

China Mobile starts Green Packaging

News alert via China CSR:
China Mobile Ltd. has initiated a green packaging system adopting recyclable wood substitutes in the packaging process of its communication products.
Eleven GSM and TD-SCDMA mobile communication equipment providers — Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Datang Telecom Technology, FiberHome, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, China Potevio, New Postcom, and ZTE Corporation — were [...]