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 [...]
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, [...]
As a follow-up to my previous post, I wanted to point out a few more blog posts and articles that I think are worth a read. First of all, most people might not even know this, but the 4 trillion yuan stimulus has been tweaked. Props to Charlie McElwee from China Environmental Law for noticing [...]
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 [...]
I met with the president of the Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) a few weeks ago and he got the term “eco-civilization” stuck in my head. Ever since, I’ve been sticking “eco-” in front of anything that’s environmentally friendly. Upon a quick Google search though, I found that “eco-documentaries” is actually a term in [...]