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 [...]

TheCityFix.com: Will China Dominate the Electric Car Market?

Originally published on TheCityFix.com:

Chinese car designer Tang Hua unveiled this peculiar electric concept car, named “Detroit Fish,” at the North American International Auto Show in 2008. Photo by GmanViz.
Step aside, Japan. Don’t even try, Detroit. China has plans to corner the electric car market.
From the New York Times:
Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at [...]

Call for Papers: 2009 Wuhan International Conference on the Environment

Call for Papers:
PACE (Professional Association for China’s Environment) is hosting the 2009 Wuhan International Conference on the Environment (WICE, 2009) from June 27-30, 2009 in Wuhan, which is the first experimental city for the development of a “Resource-Saving and Environmentally-Friendly” Eco-Society in China. The aims of this conference are to serve as an interdisciplinary scientific forum [...]

March 27: PACE “Environmental China” newsletter

Environmental China
Published by PACE (Professional Association for China’s Environment)
A weekly update of China’s environmental news and analysis from PACE (www.pacechina.net)
By CC Huang
Welcome to Environmental China, PACE’s e-mail newsletter devoted to giving interested readers a comprehensive update of news concerning China’s environment. This newsletter will be sorted first with an Opinion section, and then a [...]

TheCityFix.com: Is There a Future for Human-Scale Chinese Cities?

(Originally published on TheCityFix.com)
James Fallows of the Atlantic recently blogged about “today’s enormous, expanding Chinese cities,” comparing the more intimate architecture of Shanghai to the sprawling concrete slabs in Beijing.
“This is not a ‘which do you like better?’ discussion,” he emphasizes.
Rather the question is why the look and feel of Beijing seem so clearly to [...]