(Editor’s note: Please welcome our first post by contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn about some of the benefits of luxury consumption and “lifestyle” publications in China!)
China’s public is receiving a mixed message from mainstream media. On the one hand, they are told development is destroying the environment. On the other hand, the messages equate luxury [...]
(Photo credit: Luo Hong, via China Daily.)
Chinese photographer Luo Hong was featured in the People’s Daily Online for no particular newsworthy reason other than that he is “hopelessly” in love with flamingoes and dedicated to saving the environment through his art. (See a gallery of his images at the China Daily site.)
Flamingoes are the [...]
Can music save our planet?
Probably not, but hopefully it’ll get people in China thinking about saving the planet.
The Live Earth concert in Shanghai features nine acts, who will perform on the steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower, which is hardly the most environmentally friendly building in the world, or China, or even Shanghai, for that [...]