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Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics Got a hankering for lard made from sewage and industrial oil? Look no further than the mean streets of China's cities. Such "fake food," along with real food contaminated by pollution and pesticides, is showing up on shelves -- and turning the stomachs of urban denizens. As a result, according to state-conducted research, mo ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

D, None of the Above Nations squabble over who's responsible for solving climate change		07 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
D, None of the Above Nations squabble over who's responsible for solving climate change Last week, more than 100 countries approved a report saying humans are causing climate change and it's time to find solutions. Remember that show of harmony? Well, cherish the memory, because now some of those countries are rushing to explain why they can't be the ones to find a fix. As U.S. officials publicly balk at emissions caps and Ge ...
Topics: Brazil, China, climate, news (all these topics)

On the Ball: Olympics and more Beijing, London, and more on the Super Bowl	Sarah K. Burkhalter	02 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Because it's Friday, I'm going to get a little crazy and bring you the green sports news in reverse chronological order. Brace yourselves. London has released a sustainable development strategy for its 2012 Olympics hosting, and it's being billed as the greenest games in modern times. 'The prize for hosting the 2012 Games will be to transform one of the most derelict and disadvantaged parts of Europe into a revitalized, sustainable, new urban quarter fit for t ...
Topics: China, London, Olympics, sports, United Kingdom (all these topics)

On the Ball: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Super Bowl! Football's biggest day will be carbon neutral	Sarah K. Burkhalter	24 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I don't really like football, but I love the Super Bowl. Chips, dip, friends, commercials, man-hugging -- it's one of my favorite days of the year. And this year, it'll be extra-super, as it'll be carbon neutral. Thanks to the planting of hundreds of trees, the event might even be carbon negative, says the NFL's environmental program director, Jack Groh. Score!And checking in on Olympics updates: Construction in Beijing will continue through the 16-day Olympic ...
Topics: carbon neutral, China, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

Baoxing Match Fast-developing China to push for $200 billion energy-efficiency investment		19 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Baoxing Match Fast-developing China to push for $200 billion energy-efficiency investment China will try to nudge its burgeoning economy in a green direction by prompting building owners to spend some $200 billion by 2020 on energy efficiency for apartments and office buildings, Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing announced yesterday. Construction makes up 27 percent (and rising) of China's total energy consumption, and inef ...
Topics: China, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Year of the Draggin' China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S.		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Year of the Draggin' China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S. In China, officials are assessing their 2006 eco-successes. The short version: there were none. The somewhat longer version: the country saw a pollution-related accident roughly every two days. Officials got 600,000 environmental complaints, 30 percent more than in 2005. Goals to improve efficiency by 4 percent and cut emiss ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

PHEVs on the Orient Express? Chinese company to make plug-in hybrid	Adam Browning	09 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I've long (at least 6 months anyway) said that the best thing that could happen to jumpstart the production of plug-in hybrids by American car companies would be for a Chinese car company to announce its intentions to build the same. My reasoning? It would be a perfect wedge product into the American market. Where consumers might be skeptical about buying a traditional Chinese car, people would line up to buy a PHEV, provenance notwithstanding, because they got no p ...
Topics: business, cars, China, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics)

On the Ball: Eat, drink, and be wary Chinese food quality a concern as 2008 Olympics approaches	Sarah K. Burkhalter	19 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In 2000, when Beijing made its bid for the 2008 Olympics, it promised to get all cleaned up if it could please, pretty please, be the host. Its wishes came true, but China's goal of throwing a green Olympics seems ever out of reach. To quote ourselves: China has promised to throw a 'green' Olympics in Beijing in 2008 -- but simple livability may be the megacity's bigger challenge. Beijing has 15.2 million inhabitants; if current trends hold, that number could ...
Topics: China, food, health, Olympics, sports, toxics (all these topics)

The Great White Hopeless Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct		18 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
The Great White Hopeless Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct The baiji, a white dolphin found only in China's Yangtze River, appears to have gone extinct. Lipotes vexillifer has been swimming China's longest river for some 20 million years, but in the end it was no match for China's surging economy. In the last few decades, the Yangtze's shallows have been dredged for shipping, many of its fish have been caught or driven away, ...
Topics: China, marine life, news (all these topics)

Homeland Insecurity World's energy future looks dim, says new report		07 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Homeland Insecurity World's energy future looks dim, says new report A report issued today by the International Energy Agency says global demand for power could surge 53 percent by 2030 unless governments push clean, efficient energy. "The energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure, and expensive," says Claude Mandil, IEA's executive director. The agency also says C ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, news (all these topics)

Huanhe or Another China adds two more industrial accidents to the ledger		02 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Huanhe or Another China adds two more industrial accidents to the ledger If it's Thursday, it must be time for a story about an industrial accident in China. And while we're at it, why not go for two? An ammonia leak at a fertilizer factory south of Beijing yesterday killed one worker, sickened six residents, and caused the evacuation of 20,000 people from their homes. Firefighters sprayed the area to fight the fumes, a creative soluti ...
Topics: China, news, toxics (all these topics)

Xi'an Marks the Spot The state of China's student activist movement	Dongli Zhang, Nathan Wyeth	17 Oct 2006	Soapbox
By Dongli Zhang and Nathan Wyeth 17 Oct 2006 "Watch out." That's what one student leader, Hu Kunzhu, told us in a sweltering university dining hall in Xi'an this August. We were in this ancient capital of China for the College Environmental Groups Forum, which brought together students from more than 60 universities across the country. These included representatives from the far-flung wealthy provinces of the east c ...
Topics: China, education (all these topics)

Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S.		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S. To protect their citizens from dangerous chemicals, the European Union, Japan, and other nations have tightened their environmental standards for hundreds of manufactured products in recent years. Meanwhile, the U.S. EPA hasn't restricted any industrial compounds since an unsuccessful attempt ...
Topics: China, European Union, Japan, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

It's the Environment, Stupid China's first-of-its-kind 'Green GDP' report finds pollution hampering economy		03 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
It's the Environment, Stupid China's first-of-its-kind "Green GDP" report finds pollution hampering economy The Chinese government is exploring an innovative way to assess economic growth with a new "green GDP" report, released last month. The report found that air and water pollution cost the nation $64 billion in 2004, equivalent to 3 percent of gross domestic product; it suggests that China's true growth rate i ...
Topics: business, China, news (all these topics)

Romance, made in China The Times a bit too flowery on China's growing rose industry	Kate Sheppard	25 Sep 2006	Gristmill
China is positioning itself to take the lead in world rose production. Government leaders hope investing in the flower industry will bring capital and jobs to southwestern China, and florists in the U.S. see it as an opportunity to obtain cheaper products, thereby increasing profits. Workers in the burgeoning rose industry are mostly young women, earning an average of $25 per month, which the NYT article at least points out. Missing from the piece, though, is any thou ...
Topics: agriculture, China (all these topics)

Fool Me Rice Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Fool Me Rice Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores A variety of genetically modified rice from China has made it into Asian specialty stores and Asian restaurants in the E.U. -- and the Europeans ain't too happy about it. A new report from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth claims that some rice noodles imported into France, Germany, and Britain contain a strain of ...
Topics: China, European Union, Friends of the Earth, GMOs, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Pulp Non-Fiction Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village		05 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Pulp Non-Fiction Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village Here's China's environmental situation in a nutshell: In 2004, after a toxic spill into the Yellow River, two Chinese paper mills were fined $300,000 and ordered to install water-recycling and treatment equipment. They didn't. Instead, city officials built temporary wastewater containment pools beside the river. An environmental official orde ...
Topics: China, news, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics)

Wrong as Rain Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Wrong as Rain Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong One-third of China's landmass was hit with acid rain last year, according to a government report, posing a grave threat to soil health and food safety. Fast-growing China is the world leader in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide emissions, which rose 27 percent in the country from 2000 to 2005; coal-burning factories and power plants are largely to blame. B ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, toxics (all these topics)

Hu's Fine Is It, Anyway? China considers fining media outlets for disaster reporting		24 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Hu's Fine Is It, Anyway? China considers fining media outlets for disaster reporting Advancing their reputation as fun-loving goofballs, Chinese officials are considering a new law that would allow local governments to fine media outlets up to $12,500 for reporting on environmental disasters and other emergencies without permission or in a way that "causes serious consequences." Officials have been embarras ...
Topics: China, land degradation, news, toxics (all these topics)

Costs of convenience While demand for frozen food booms, processing plants head to China and Mexico	Tom Philpott	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Farmers markets may be fashionable, but the U.S. appetite for convenience food remains insatiable. 'Retail sales of frozen foods in the U.S. in 2005 reached a record $29 billion, up from nearly $26 billion in 2001,' declares a news report. Meanwhile, the U.S. food-processing giants are shuttering domestic plants and heading to Mexico and China, where labor and produce costs are cheaper than California's central coast, once the U.S. frozen food capital. In an age of b ...
Topics: China, food, Mexico (all these topics)

Gun in 60 Seconds China to protect rare animals by killing them		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Gun in 60 Seconds China to protect rare animals by killing them How do you say "cognitive dissonance" in Chinese? This Sunday, Chinese officials will be auctioning off licenses to kill rare wildlife -- including some endangered species -- to raise funds for ... wildlife conservation. Due to the country's gun laws, only foreigners can bid for permits at the auction, which will be supervised by the State Forestry Administrati ...
Topics: China, news, wildlife (all these topics)

China's shrinking farmland As China's exports boom, its farmland shrinks and food imports rise. Coincidence?	Tom Philpott	04 Aug 2006	Gristmill
The philosopher Slavoj Zizek once remarked that the United States does still have a working class -- it's simply in China. With the U.S. manufacturing base shriveling (Ford Explorer, anyone?) and imports from China booming (set to surpass a quarter trillion dollars this year), it's hard to contradict that trendy Slovenian academic. China's manufacturing miracle means (among many other things) that even in a period of stagnant wage growth, U.S. consumers can march into ...
Topics: agriculture, China (all these topics)

Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Dalai Drama China plans massive diversion of Tibetan river water The Chinese never met a problem they couldn't solve with a few billion dollars and a massive engineering project out of scale with anything ever attempted before by humanity. The latest is a $37 billion undertaking which would divert water from rivers in the high reaches of Tibet -- which, when you think about it, don't really need all that ...
Topics: China, news, Tibet, water conflicts, Yellow River (all these topics)

Cotton a Trap GM cotton doesn't cut pesticide use long term, new research indicates		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Cotton a Trap GM cotton doesn't cut pesticide use long term, new research indicates Biotech giant Monsanto touts its genetically modified cotton seed -- spliced with the bollworm-killing Bt toxin -- as money- and earth-saving, because it lowers the need for pesticide use. Funny story about that: a new study found that cotton farmers using the seed soon fell back into heavier pesticide use. Researchers from Cornell University followed 481 ...
Topics: China, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Move Thyself: "Kingdom of bicycles" experiencing identity crisis	Todd Hymas Samkara	15 Jun 2006	Gristmill
So, in case you haven't heard, China's economy has been growing a wee bit. The boom has fueled growth in incomes and is largely responsible for the attendant explosive growth in auto sales and use. Huge growth. The number of cars has grown over 20 times since 1978 and is expected to balloon another five times still by 2020. Meanwhile, bicycle ridership has fallen at roughly the same rate as auto use has grown, and city planners and officials, eager to keep the b ...
Topics: bikes, China, placemaking (all these topics)

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