TheCityFix.com: Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo Exposes Challenges for China’s Cities

Originally posted on TheCityFix.com:
Cities in China are “becoming ever less habitable,” and their future will depend on an “urban awakening” that includes the Chinese government’s support of public participation in urban planning and decision-making, says Zhang Song, a professor at Tongji University’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning, in a two-part interview on chinadialogue.
China is [...]

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 [...]