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 [...]

Blog Action Day: Poverty and environmentalism

Here in my time zone, we have just a few more hours left of Blog Action Day 2008, where bloggers all over the world commit to covering one specific topic. This year, that topic is POVERTY.
I wanted to examine the cross-section between poverty and environmentalism. And I won’t just focus on China because I believe [...]

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.
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By Timothy Gutmann
Environmentalists have felt justly skeptical of China’s claims of a “Green Olympics.” Quantitatively, greens can find [...]

Live Earth in Shanghai

Can music save our planet?
Probably not, but hopefully it’ll get people in China thinking about saving the planet.
The Live Earth concert in Shanghai features nine acts, who will perform on the steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower, which is hardly the most environmentally friendly building in the world, or China, or even Shanghai, for that [...]