RespChi on Twitter, new jobs, recent reports, and other housekeeping tasks

I lost an hour over the weekend (btw, did you know Daylight Savings Time is a waste of energy?) but gained some motivation to do a little virtual housekeeping on ResponsibleChina.
First order of business: Follow me on Twitter.
I vowed I’d never overextend my social networks, leverage my online relationships for self-indulgent purposes, and speak in [...]

Call for papers: China and global climate change

A notice via the University of California, Los Angeles CHINAPOL listerv:
Call for conference papers (Deadline February 8th, 2009)
CHINA AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE:
Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Conference Dates: 18-19 June 2009
Location: Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Website: http://www.ln.edu.hk/caps/conference.php
The Centre for Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS) and the Environmental Studies Programme (ESP) at Lingnan University, [...]

Welcome, Responsible Blogger: CC Huang

We have a new member of the RespChi family. Please help me welcome CC Huang, born in Hubei, raised in Iowa, and currently residing in Beijing.
Stay tuned for her first post!

CC Huang, Beijing correspondent
cc.huang2 [at] gmail.com
My name is CC Huang and I am an international affairs major with minors in philosophy and Chinese at George [...]

RespChi applauds Obama’s “new era of responsibility”

Tonight, at the end of Barack Obama’s first full day as President, I am proud to be an American and excited about my country’s renewed commitment to transparency and accountability.
I was there Tuesday - along with 2 million other people - by the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., about a mile [...]

Asia Foundation and GEI launch environmental entrepreneurship program in Beijing

A note from Lijian Zhao, environment program manager for The Asia Foundation:
The Asia Foundation and Global Environmental Institute has jointly launched an environmental entrepreneurship training project in Beijing, for those interested in business solutions to environmental problems. For more information please visit the program webpage (in Chinese): http://www.geichina.org/eco-training
Please spread the word to those who might [...]