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Asia Foundation and GEI launch environmental entrepreneurship program in Beijing
A note from Lijian Zhao, environment program manager for The Asia Foundation: The Asia Foundation and Global Environmental Institute has jointly launched an environmental entrepreneurship training project in Beijing, for those interested in business solutions to environmental problems. For more information please visit the program webpage (in Chinese): http://www.geichina.org/eco-training Please spread the word to those [...]
PACE Election: Last call for suggestions!
A note from the Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) Election Committee: After careful confirmation, we are pleased to announce the nominees of this PACE Board Election (listed alphabetically by the last names): Jimmy Chen, Ph.D., Engineers, USEPA Yuyang Gong, Ph.D., Managing Director, ESD China Limited Co. Jie He, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Sherbrooke [...]
The ABCs of pollution: Atmospheric brown clouds threaten environment, quality of life in China
This was originally posted on December 11 at TheCityFix.com: By Erica Schlaikjer Man-made clouds of pollution, stretching from Beijing to New Delhi, are threatening the water and food security in Asia, according to a recent report from the United Nations Environment Programme. These massive brown plumes of smog – known as atmospheric brown clouds or [...]
What Obama’s win means for China
YES, WE DID! And I was there! Here’s a shot of the rally at Grant Park in Chicago, where an estimated 125,000 people showed up to support the Obama-Biden ticket: Obama’s decisive and historic victory in the U.S. presidential election brings many hopes and promises. What could his tenure in the White House mean for [...]
Op-Ed: Chinese environmentalism
An essay by my friend and former classmate Timothy Gutmann, who currently teaches English in Beijing and studies Chinese. A Boston University graduate, he hopes to return to America to study East Asian and Islamic modern philosophy. ===== By Timothy Gutmann Environmentalists have felt justly skeptical of China’s claims of a “Green Olympics.” Quantitatively, greens [...]
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