British Council hosts youth climate change leaders in China

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It seems the British Council these days is busy cultivating youth climate change leaders in China.
This past Saturday evening at the Bookworm Chengdu, a cultural events center in central Chengdu, several youth ambassadors spoke to an audience of largely grade school students on climate change action, as well as their own involvement [...]

Ecomagination and Environmental Laws Make Money for GE in China

Big money, big change: General Electric pushes for environmental laws and revs up Ecomagination in China
The Wall Street Journal recently hosted a special event, ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital, that focuses on a “CEO-level view of the rapidly developing relationship between the environment and the bottom line.” Program participant Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of [...]

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship: Why China Will Define the Future

Christopher C. Pinney, director of executive education for the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, recently wrote about his CSR-focused trip to China, in “Why China Will Define the Future Corporate Citizenship.” He argues that China needs to continue to embrace corporate social responsibility to solve some of the biggest problems facing the country and [...]

Welcome to contributing blogger Sophia Mendelsohn!

We’ve added another person to our team!

My name is Sophia Mendelsohn, which the Chinese translate into “Su Fei.”
I am living in Shanghai and have been for three years. Each year we watch as the city grows increasingly international, but becomes a little grayer up above our heads. It is no doubt that you can [...]

WWF China and the Olympics

I received a message from Xiaowei Su, the Project Coordinator for WWF China’s Go for Gold campaign, an initiative targeted at encouraging Olympic athletes, National Olympic committees (NOC), and individual tourists to offset the carbon emission from their Olympic air travel before the Beijing Games.
Please be sure to check out these Web sites, according to [...]