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A Great Leap Forward, Without All the Famine China passes its first renewable-energy law		02 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
A Great Leap Forward, Without All the Famine China passes its first renewable-energy law The Chinese legislature on Monday passed a bill aimed at increasing the country's use of renewable energy by mandating that power-grid operators get a portion of their electricity from local renewable sources and by providing financial inducements such as tax incentives, discounted loans, and a national development fund. When it takes ef ...
Topics: China, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants A nearly $5 billion proposed loan package from the U.S. government to British-owned Westinghouse Electric Corp. to build four massive nuclear reactors in China is encountering a flurry of objections. The objections are not about the nuclear waste that would result, or reactors' vulnerability to te ...
Topics: business, China, Dennis Kucinich, news, nuclear power, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

It Takes a Pillage to Raze the Wild Illegal logging operation in Indonesia feeds China's appetite for wood		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
It Takes a Pillage to Raze the Wild Illegal logging operation in Indonesia feeds China's appetite for wood A three-year investigation of some of the last remaining intact tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region has revealed an enormous international smuggling ring, possibly the largest in the world involving a single type of wood, says a report from two enviro groups. In a billion-dollar-a-year operation, the criminal ...
Topics: China, Indonesia, logging, news (all these topics)

Reversal of Fortune Cookies China passes U.S. as reigning consumerism champion		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reversal of Fortune Cookies China passes U.S. as reigning consumerism champion America, for years the world's largest, proudest consumer, has been dethroned. Say hello to China, now the world's most consumingest nation, according to a recent survey by the Earth Policy Institute. China now beats the U.S. in consumption of four out of five basic commodities, including grain, meat, steel, and coal. The fifth, howe ...
Topics: China, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

The God of Small Savings Ex-millionaire surrounded by trees, little else		04 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The God of Small Savings Ex-millionaire surrounded by trees, little else Former real-estate mogul Xing Yiqian is well-known on the Chinese island of Hainan for his dedicated conservation of the area's dense rainforest. Called the "tree god" by locals, Xing spent his fortune -- once valued at $24 million -- paying individual landowners not to cut down their trees, financing expensive transplants for unwanted ...
Topics: China, land stewardship, rainforests (all these topics)

The depopulation bomb, or, 40 million guys with no one to date	Chip Giller	02 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Not sure if anyone else noted this story in The New York Times early this week: 'Fearing Future, China Starts to Give Girls Their Due.' The piece says the powers that be in China just might be considering a shift from the controversial one-child policy (enacted in the 1970s to help control population growth) to a two-child policy. Why? Well, for one, there's a grave shortage of girls in the country, due to selective abortion (or worse):In early January, the government an ...
Topics: China, France, population (all these topics)

China	David Roberts	20 Jan 2005	Gristmill
Here's a worthwhile David R. Francis editorial about China's growing demand for oil. It's another reminder that environmentalists who really care about the fate of the earth -- the entire earth, not just their favorite camping spot out West -- can do nothing more valuable than trying to make sure that China does not follow the same development path as the U.S. and Europe. This means lobbying the Chinese government not only to adopt aggressive conservation and renewable ...
Topics: China, energy, oil (all these topics)

The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution China's economy, as we report with obsessive regularity, is growing like gangbusters, and with it grows the country's need for energy. One response to this need is an aggressive push to develop nuclear energy: Conservative estimates project the commissioning of two new reactors a year through 2020, quadrupling nuclear output to 16 billion kilowat ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

Take It E.V. Electric vehicles catching on in China; Smart cars coming to U.S.		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Take It E.V. Electric vehicles catching on in China; Smart cars coming to U.S. All the talk these days is about hybrid and hydrogen cars, but in China, where air pollution is an ongoing crisis, they haven't given up on electric vehicles. Improvements in battery technology are making electric cars, scooters, and buses a viable option, with shorter charging times and traveling ranges that rival t ...
Topics: cars, China, electric vehicles, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Hot Oil Treatment China's wide-ranging quest for oil may bring about clashes with U.S.		16 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Hot Oil Treatment China's wide-ranging quest for oil may bring about clashes with U.S. China is desperate for oil to fuel its booming economy, and it's got plenty of cash to pay for it and few of the humanitarian scruples that still (occasionally) restrain the U.S. Some analysts worry that these circumstances will lead to conflict between the two nations. Most alarmingly, China recently cut a $70 billion deal with Iran that ...
Topics: China, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species		07 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species Many Chinese believe that wild game improves health. Whether or not that's true, the country's enormous market for rare and exotic "delicacies" is not improving the health of endangered species. "Just in the last two years, 12 to 13 species have had to be CITES-listed because of China's food trade," said Gail Cochr ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Re-Orient-ing China pressing forward with renewable energy		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Re-Orient-ing China pressing forward with renewable energy Faced with energy shortages and endemic air pollution, China is moving aggressively to develop renewable-energy technologies. Last summer, it announced it would seek to get 12 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020. As it strives to meet this goal, the government is eschewing central planning and instead subsidizing public and private companies, wai ...
Topics: China, European Union, renewable energy (all these topics)

If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars Attempting to combat its growing dependence on oil imports, China is set to establish fuel-efficiency standards for cars, SUVs, and vans for the first time. The standards are identical to those in a draft circulated last November, about which the auto industry strenuously complained, claiming they were too strict. ...
Topics: air pollution, China, placemaking (all these topics)

Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse A Washington Post exploration of China's environmental problems confirms all the sorry tales you've been hearing. The country contains at least six of the world's 10 most polluted cities, experts say, leading to respiratory problems for millions of citizens. Deforestation in north and central China means deserts ...
Topics: China, deforestation, desertification, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants China's economy is expanding faster than Bruce Banner with road rage, straining against the limits of its current capacity for creating or importing energy -- and pumping out some of the world's worst air pollution. The plan? Go nuclear. This year China announced its intention to build 30 new nuclear power facilities by 2020, and a team of Chinese scientists told B ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

China 'R' Us China's Skyrocketing Energy Needs Threaten Environment		15 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: China China "R" Us China's Skyrocketing Energy Needs Threaten Environment China's booming economy is straining the country's energy resources to the breaking point. Last year its oil imports rose by a third, it became the world's largest steel importer (surpassing the U.S.), its domestic coal production rose by 100 million tons -- and still there were intermittent blackouts as electricity consumption jumped by 15 percent. With energy needs expected to more than double ...
Topics: China (all these topics)

Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem A massive dam project planned for the Nu River in southwestern China threatens to wreak havoc on a region that contains one of the world's least-disturbed temperate ecosystems. The area, designated by the U.N. as a World Heritage Site, contains old-growth forests, 7,000 species of plants, and 80 rare or endangered animal species -- all to ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates Asthma rates are climbing around the world, and though scientists can't say precisely what's causing the increase, pollution is thought to be a serious contributor. The respiratory disease has become a particular problem in Asia, where terrible air quality, rapid u ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, China, health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a sta ...
Topics: Africa, Algeria, Asia, China, energy, European Union, Gabon, globalization, green living, Japan, Middle East (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Bicycles Shanghaied Shanghai Bans Bicycles from Major Streets		15 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Bicycles Shanghaied Shanghai Bans Bicycles from Major Streets Shanghai, China, whose streets once teemed with peddling people, will ban bicycles from most major thoroughfares beginning next year. It's a dramatic (and, many say, depressing) shift for a city that was home to some of the nation's earliest bicycle factories. Now, Shanghai has become a center of China's burgeoning auto industry. Though bicycles are still ...
Topics: China, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hubris on the Yangtze	Worldwatch Institute	24 Nov 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: Friends of the Earth International. 555 -- height, in feet, of the Washington Monument, the tallest structure in Washington, D.C. 575 -- height, in feet, of the new Three Gorges Dam in China (which is also wider than 100 Washington Monuments standing edge to edge) 4.3 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Panama Canal 26.4 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Three Gorges Dam 80 -- number of cr ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Next Thing You Know, They'll Have a Better Human-Rights Record Than the U.S., Too China to Adopt Fuel-Economy Standards Stricter Than Those in U.S.		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Next Thing You Know, They'll Have a Better Human-Rights Record Than the U.S., Too China to Adopt Fuel-Economy Standards Stricter Than Those in U.S. Intent on reducing its growing dependence on foreign oil, China is set to impose vehicle fuel-economy standards that will be markedly stricter than those in place in the U.S. The rules, expected to go into effect in 2005 and become more stringent in 2008, will require all smal ...
Topics: China, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

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