China’s Green Beat: New site, new episode

Check out the fancy new Flash-animated site (designed by Eggplant Studios) for China’s Green Beat (which I’ve written about here and here.)
They also have a new episode, posted on their blog, too, about wind power in China.

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Think public transport is boring? Check this out!

China’s Green Beat released a hilarious new episode about public transportation in Beijing. It is quite a departure from its previous three documentary-style episodes, which I reviewed in my previous post here. Apparently, the Green Brothers are preparing to launch a new design soon, complete with more info and episodes, so stay tuned!
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China’s Green Beat is Awesome!

I highly recommend China’s Green Beat, a new video podcast about the “greening” of China. I’m trying to recruit these guys (affectionately known as the “Green Brothers“) to contribute to ResponsibleChina because I think they’re AWESOME. Plus, co-founder John Romankiewicz is a fellow Northwestern University graduate, so I gotta give him extra props. Their first [...]

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 [...]

Inflation, pollution and pork

The inflation rate in China this year rose higher than expected to 4.2 percent, the highest its been since 1996, mainly because of rising food prices, according to the Asian Development Bank.
One reason for the spike was the outbreak of blue ear pig disease that caused pork shortages, thus driving up the prices of pork. [...]