Please see my 30 Boxes Calendar for this listing. Enter the Green Dragon China’s Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green AmCham Shanghai’s Sustainability Conference Thursday, September 11, 2008 Grand Hyatt Shanghai Tickets Now on Sale at the AmCham Office! Shanghai Centre, Suite 568 1376 Nanjing Road West Shanghai, China 200040 Phone: (8621) 6279-7119 Fax: (8621) [...]
Last March I connected with a global team from Kaospilot, a group of mostly Danish students from the international school of new business design and social innovation. One of the projects they were developing during a three month stint in Shanghai focused on social innovation. I was sniffing their trail, tracking down the same social [...]
Sooooo, we added another one to the team! Please welcome our newest contributor, Carla Fernandez, recently returned to New York City from Shanghai, where she was working as an intern with my sister Amena Schlaikjer at ?What If! Innovation Co. in Shanghai. Stay tuned for her first post about social entrepreneurs, coming soon. Read more [...]
(Image via TaylorFrancis.org) The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai welcomes Taylor Francis, the youngest presenter trained by Al Gore for The Climate Project, a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis. Francis, who has been featured in the New York Times and TIME magazine, will be discussing climate change and [...]
Christine Lu of The China Business Network brings us another great podcast about URBN Hotels & Resorts, an eco-friendly boutique hotel and resort company based in Shanghai. The company’s first luxury hotel, a 28-room property catered to design-focused “urban world travelers,” bills itself as being China’s first carbon neutral hotel. URBN Hotels’ vision is to [...]