Archive for 'China'
Worry About Air Pollution, Not Just Climate Change
Yes, global warming is a big deal and a big challenge. But sometimes I get so frustrated by conservation and environmental NGO’s for not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time — in other words, for failing to appreciate the real lesson of greenhouse gas emissions.
The real lesson is there is [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Animals, Asia Pacific, Birds, China, Climate Change, North America, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: air pollution, Arctic haze, asthma ozone, Climate Change, Copenhagen, dust storm West, EPA greenhouse gas, global nature, global pollution, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, mercury, mercury baby, mercury healthy, mercury wildlife, National Academy air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, Nature Conservancy air pollution, Nature Conservancy climate, organic pollutant health, ozone, particulate matter, particulate matter health, persistent organic pollutants, Peter Kareiva, pollution agreement, pollution biodiversity
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From China: Entrepreneurs, Conservation and the Future of the World
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
Who’s going to lead the way for conservation in China? Local grass-roots groups? International NGOs? The government?
Here’s another thought: What about [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Business, China, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Charles Bedford, China SEE, China business environment, China business nature, China capitalism environment, China capitalism nature, China Central Television, China conservation, China democracy environment, China environment, China green business, China nature, China philanthropy, China philanthropy environment, civil environment China, grassroots conservation China, grassroots environment China, Society-Entrepreneurs-Ecology, Wang Zhi
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Bangkok Dispatch: Elephants Take Over Climate Talks
We are headed into Week Two of international climate negotiations here in Bangkok. Progress is slow…but there is some progress. I asked Andrew Deutz, The Nature Conservancy’s director of international government relations, to provide some context on what’s going on…and what it means for a climate-change agreement in Copenhagen this December:
Q: What progress has been [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2009 under China, Climate Change, Policy, Rainforests, Uncategorized, United States.
Tags: Andrew Deutz, Chrissy Schwinn, climate agreement, Climate Change, Climate Week, cop15, Copenhagen, deforestation, REDD, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, UN Bangkok, UN Climate Week
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Yellowstone in China?
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
How are U.S. perceptions of China sadly out of date? One example lies in how China’s first national park was created.
China [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2009 under China, Conservation Issues, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Charles Bedford, China, China national park, China nature, China park, Diquing park, Great Sand Dunes Alamosa, Great Sand Dunes Allard, Great Sand Dunes Salazar, Potatso park, Pudacuo, Pudacuo park, The Nature Conservancy China, Yellowstone, Yunnan nature, Yunnan park
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From China: Earth First–Mine the Other Planets Later
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there for Cool Green Science. Read all his posts.
Everywhere I’ve been outside of the United States in the last few years has a property system [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2009 under China, Conservation Issues.
Tags: biodiversity private property, China, China conservation, China property system, China wildlife, conservation property, Hardin, Indonesia, Indonesia conservation, Indonesia land rights, Indonesia wildlife, mongolia, Mongolia animal, Mongolia conservation, Mongolia wildlife, property rights conservation, Tragedy of the Commons
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, September 24
“Coywolves” in the neighborhood? Death panels for pandas? Monarchs in need of a women’s lib movement? It’s all in a day’s news here at Cool Green Morning.
BBC wildlife expert Chris Packham makes a statement that could send shivers down your spine: Giant pandas should be allowed to die out. His argument? The money put toward breeding [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Animals, China, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Environmental Science, Policy, United States.
Tags: BBC, Chris Packham, Climate Week, Copenhagen, coywolf, giant panda, Greenpeace, habitat protection, monarch butterfly, The Vine, Treehugger
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, September 14
OK, so it turns out that you can’t get solar power from human hair, as we reported last week. But you can track a gorilla in Uganda online now, OK? Is that good enough for you? Read all this morning’s vetted and triple-fact-checked hot green news, only in Cool Green Morning:
That story about a Nepalese [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Deserts and Aridlands, Green Living, Green Technology, Media.
Tags: Bright Green Blog, China carbon emission, China greenhouse gas, Climate Change, climate change desert, desertification, Environmental Capital, Geophysical Research Letters, Green Revolution, India carbon emission, India greenhouse gas, Journal Watch Online, Nepal solar human hair, Nicholas Stern, Nicholas Stern China, Norman Borlaug, Sustainablog, Uganda gorilla conservation, Uganda gorilla tracking, Uganda online gorilla
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, September 1
If you could only recapture your car’s waste and use it for electricity…if you could only hoard all the Earth’s rare metals…if you could only keep Greenland from melting…then you wouldn’t need to read today’s Cool Green Morning. I bet you have to, though…
From the Sounds Like a Perpetual Motion Machine Department: CleanTechnica reports that [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2009 under Arctic, China, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fish, Green Living, Green Technology.
Tags: Andrew Revkin, Arctic sea ice, China, CleanTechnica, Dot Earth, EcoGeek, Environmental Leader, Fish, fishing, Greenland, Hank Green, Heidi Tolliver-Nigro, hybrid car, Mongabay, precycling, rare earth metals, recreational fishing, recycling, renewable energy, summer ice melting, sustainable fishing, The Inspired Economist
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 20
Tiger populations, suburban lawns, clean energy, green universities and a rice plant that will outgrow a flood… read on for today’s Cool Green Morning news round-up.
Suburban lawns and gardens are an uncounted source of water pollution, says new research. Water run-off from these neighborhood fixtures can pick up chemicals and toxins and wash them into rivers and [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fresh Water, Green Living, Green Technology, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: China, clean energy, dead zones, food production, Green Technology, green universities, Indian tigers, rice production, snorkel rice, suburban lawns, The Vine, United States, water pollution, water run-off
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, August 7
What’s the best song about climate change? Grist’s Dave Roberts has his picks (see below), and we have ours (see video above), which we’re sure will get your weekend off to a silently rolling (if not flying) start. It’s all in another edition of Coolness:
Jobs, jobs, jobs — that’s what it’s down to for the [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Business, China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Europe, Green Living, Media, Policy, United States.
Tags: carbon tariff, cash-for-clunker, Casual Mafia, China, China climate, China emission, climate change song, Dave Roberts, Environmental Capital, global warming song, green tech, Grist, In My Prius, jobs climate, Martin LaMonica, Obama, Planet Ark, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict climate, Prius rap, Senate climate, Swiss glacier climate, Swiss glacier global warming, The Vine, The Wall Street Journal
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