Green Glam in China

(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 [...]

Introduction to readers from RespChi’s “Sichuan office”

By Mark Hiew, contributing blogger

Hello ResponsibleChina readers!
Greetings from Chengdu, the famously laid-back capital of Sichuan province, here in Southwestern China. Given that a lot of the existing blogging on China comes from the economic powerhouse centers along the East Coast, I plan on bringing some alternative voices of people working on sustainability issues here in [...]

What’s more important: poverty or global warming?

(Photo via WorldRevolution.org)

Chinese officials are attempting to relieve themselves of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, blaming developed countries, such as the United States, for global warming, instead.
Developing countries (i.e. India and China) must focus on reducing poverty as their primary objective, according to Chinese state official Zhang Yesui.
Guess you can’t really argue with that - [...]

China’s youth: Me, Me, Me!

Just came across this July 2007 article today, and I think it’s worth a look-over…
TIME magazine’s Simon Elegant writes about China’s self-obsessed and materialistic “Me generation,” the under-30-year-olds who are more concerned about money and status than democracy and equality.

(Photo for TIME by Ian Teh)
“China’s Me Generation“
By Simon Elegant
TIME magazine
July 26, 2007
There are roughly 300 [...]

WorldChanging: Responsibility rests on local governments

Mara Hvistendahl from WorldChanging comments on the impending shifts of power in China as the National Party Congress convenes in Beijing this week.
“National government gets most of the attention outside China, inside the country policy enforcement is mostly the responsibility of local governments,” she says. “When the central government unveils a forward-thinking policy (and [...]