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 [...]

Jeremy Carl on China and “clean coal”

(Photo via Market Sense)
Wired magazine interviews Stanford University’s Jeremy Carl, a research fellow in the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development.
Here’s what he has to say about China’s role in the coal industry:

All We Are Saying Is, Give (Clean) Coal a Chance
By Alexis Madrigal
November 6, 2007

Wired News: Can you give us an idea [...]

Revisiting Burtynsky

(Thanks to my friend Oki for alerting me to this video!)
Back in July, I wrote about photographer Ed Burtynsky’s journey through China in the documentary, “Manufactured Landscapes,” directed by Jennifer Baichwal. See my original post here. And check out Burtysnky’s personal Web site here.
In a follow-up to that original post, here’s a video from February [...]

Spotlight on the Trib’s Beijing correspondent, Evan Osnos

As someone who won a scholarship from the Overseas Press Club, I have always admired foreign correspondents, especially those who are not only talented writers, but who are also sensitive enough to pinpoint the nuances of a complicated story and smart enough to draw out the bigger picture.
Evan Osnos, the Chicago Tribune’s Beijing bureau chief, [...]