Greening the Beige 3 is currently running for a week from November 21-November 28th! This year’s festival is based around the theme “Re-energize Beijing” and features an eclectic variety of events, live performances, film screenings and community activities.
I met with the president of the Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) a few weeks ago and he got the term “eco-civilization” stuck in my head. Ever since, I’ve been sticking “eco-” in front of anything that’s environmentally friendly. Upon a quick Google search though, I found that “eco-documentaries” is actually a term in [...]
(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 [...]