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The Ethics of Trash and Environmental Justice

By CC Huang ⋅ May 11, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

March 27: PACE “Environmental China” newsletter

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ March 27, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

More on China’s stimulus plan: Mixed messages, doubts and…at least a little hope?

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 the [...]

RespChi on Twitter, new jobs, recent reports, and other housekeeping tasks

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ March 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 speak in [...]

“Eco-documentaries” during New Beijing International Movie Week

By CC Huang ⋅ March 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

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