Environmental Virtue: What Can We Learn From China?

Previously, I’ve blogged about environmental justice as a framework of looking at environmental protection and why we should act. In the past few years, a new form of environmental ethics has been gaining momentum - environmental virtue ethics (EVE). Aristotle saw moral virtue as a reflection of a certain state of character, rather than our [...]

International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change

International Youth Summit on
Energy and Climate Change
July 18, 2009 - July 19, 2009
Beijing, China
Hosts:
Tsinghua University Student Green Association
Peking University CDM Club
China Youth Climate Action Network
To learn more, visit the official Web site:
http://www.iysecc.org/en/index.html
Executive Summary
The International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change (IYSECC) will bring together 300 Chinese and international students from over 35 universities around [...]

New Ventures: Disruptive Green Innovation

Announcement from my colleague at the World Resources Institute, Ray Cheung:
Disruptive Green Innovation
New Ventures China 2009 Forum
July 24th, 2009
Beijing, China
For more information and to register:
http://www.new-ventures.org.cn/forum2009/intro_en.html

INVITATION
The World Resources Institute and the DAO Institute of Environment and Development cordially invite you to the New Ventures China Disruptive Green Innovation Forum on July 24th, 2009.
The global financial crisis [...]

TheCityFix.com: E-Bike Boom in China

Originally posted on TheCityFix.com.

From TIME.com:
On the Streets of China, Electric Bikes Are Swarming
June 14, 2009
By Austin Ramzy
In China, electric bicycles are leaving cars in the dust. Last year, Chinese bought 21 million e-bikes, compared with 9.4 million autos. While China now has about 25 million cars on the road, it has four times as many [...]

The Ethics of Trash and Environmental Justice

Photo by art_es_anna.
The Modern Predicament
The amount of material needed to sustain the modern world is somewhat ridiculous– and what better way to understand how much substance we buy is there than looking at the trash we produce? For example, in 2005, the United States produced 246 million tons of trash.
This is an extremely large amount [...]