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How Did RespChi Represent on 350 Day of Climate Action?
Our man Mark Hiew and friends John Romankiewicz (of China’s Green Beat) and Alex Pasternack (of Treehugger) called awareness to climate change on 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action on October 24 by rapping at the Roots & Shoots China Summit and Climate Action Carnival in Beijing.
From Treehugger:
…dropping green knowledge was legendary Beijing green rapper [...]
Environmental Virtue: What Can We Learn From China?
Previously, I’ve blogged about environmental justice as a framework of looking at environmental protection and why we should act. In the past few years, a new form of environmental ethics has been gaining momentum - environmental virtue ethics (EVE). Aristotle saw moral virtue as a reflection of a certain state of character, rather than our [...]
The Rise of Environmental NGOs
I’ve recently found two stories about environmental NGOs in China directly taking a stance against the government to improve environmental policy.
The first is a landmark case in which a court accepted a lawsuit brought on by a charitable organization, The All-China Environment Federation. They are suing the government for allowing the construction of a ice [...]
International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change
International Youth Summit on
Energy and Climate Change
July 18, 2009 - July 19, 2009
Beijing, China
Hosts:
Tsinghua University Student Green Association
Peking University CDM Club
China Youth Climate Action Network
To learn more, visit the official Web site:
http://www.iysecc.org/en/index.html
Executive Summary
The International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change (IYSECC) will bring together 300 Chinese and international students from over 35 universities around [...]
The Ethics of Trash and Environmental Justice
Photo by art_es_anna.
The Modern Predicament
The amount of material needed to sustain the modern world is somewhat ridiculous– and what better way to understand how much substance we buy is there than looking at the trash we produce? For example, in 2005, the United States produced 246 million tons of trash.
This is an extremely large amount [...]
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