Our man Mark Hiew and friends John Romankiewicz (of China’s Green Beat) and Alex Pasternack (of Treehugger) called awareness to climate change on 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action on October 24 by rapping at the Roots & Shoots China Summit and Climate Action Carnival in Beijing. From Treehugger: …dropping green knowledge was legendary Beijing [...]
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 [...]
I lost an hour over the weekend (btw, did you know Daylight Savings Time is a waste of energy?) but gained some motivation to do a little virtual housekeeping on ResponsibleChina. First order of business: Follow me on Twitter. I vowed I’d never overextend my social networks, leverage my online relationships for self-indulgent purposes, and [...]
This post is written by Carolyn Gou, special contributor to RespChi. Carolyn is a junior at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she is majoring in English literature. She says she has a passion for NGO promotion in China and wants to further her studies in public affairs. She is currently interning at the World Resources [...]
***This post is a continuation of PART ONE: “China’s Environmental Crisis,” by Kenneth Lieberthal.*** Kenneth Lieberthal, visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution, spoke last night about “China’s Environmental Crisis and Prospects for the Future” at the The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. ACTION and [...]