Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Steven Q. Andrews, a Washington DC-based environmental consultant, has written a very revealing piece in the Wall Street Journal suggesting that the official air pollution statistics for Beijing are both misleading and artificially low. Andrews points out that in 2006, the State Environmental Protection Agency stopped taking air quality readings ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
I came across this rather strange news story while I was writing briefs for next month's magazine:
Chinese drivers may have to pay an emission tax by 2010 as the government is beefing up its efforts to curb pollution, a news report said on Monday.
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The Ministry of Finance, State Administration of Taxation ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Due to having a long day today, and knowing an opportunity when I see it, I've decided to outsource today's blog post to my sister who is visiting from the states. Her qualifications involve working with inner city youths in San Francisco, and being generally spiky (the latter being the ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
I love this article in The Science Daily: China's Demand for Recycled Wastepaper: A Blessing and a Curse for the World's Forests.
It's a perfect little microcosm of the wacky, self-sustaining/self-perpetuating system of mutually dependent relationships that is globalism. In a nutshell, China buys recycled wastepaper from the United States to ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Barely a day passes without a story in the Western media about China’s environmental problems. From Beijing’s fume-clogged air, which was so bad last Friday that it forced the closure of a number of highways, to China’s toxic rivers and lakes, the overall picture is one of ecological meltdown. As ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
By Matthew Plowright
Last Thursday, a PR executive I had arranged a meeting with was one and a half hours late. When she eventually arrived, she was extremely apologetic, recounting with horror her two hour cab ride from Zhongguancun, Beijing’s IT district in the north-west of the city to her firm’s ...
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