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Beijing Blanketed by Freak Government-Made Snow
When we awoke on Sunday, we were shocked to find Beijing draped in snow. It was a gorgeous white Halloween, and the earliest snowfall in a decade -- the result in part of an unusually strong cold front that had a few of us thinking
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"Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?
The buzz around the green blogosphere today is another record-setting Chinese wind farm, with 240 turbines producing 648 megawatts. But this one isn't in Inner Mongolia -- it's in Texas.
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With Words, Hip Hop and Hundreds of Bicycles, Beijing's Youth Call for Climate Action
The resounding call for climate action that capped a series of talks in Beijing this week between the US and China didn't come from top officials, but from a more unusual constituent: young Beijingers.
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How Beijing Cleans Its Air, and Fakes It Too
As savvy moves by officials in China are pushing its state-run English-language news outlets to start sounding a bit more like their Western counterparts, did a New York Times article over the weekend about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear
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Is China, Once Climate Scapegoat, Now Our "Sputnik"?
Not two years ago China was often decried as the world's environmental waste land.
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Hoarding As An Art Form: Song Dong's "Waste Not"
Something worth checking out this holiday weekend if you're in New York: Chinese artist Song Dong's "Waste Not," an installation at the Museum of Modern Art made up of most of the objects obsessively collected by the artist's
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China Tightens Grasp on Rare Earth Metals Vital for Green Technologies
China is famous for mining one of the yuckiest, costliest and deadliest natural resources. But it's also home to 93 percent of global production
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What's the Real Cost of Cheap Chinese Solar?
Photo: Ryan Pyle / New York Times Cheap Chinese Photovoltaics Are Hurting China Too The sinking price of solar panels may be good for consumers looking for good solar deals, like this guy profiled by the Times who paid a cut-rate $77,000 to cover his
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Beijing Slams Pepsi and Coke As "Dirty" For Using Too Much Water
This week Coca Cola and Pepsi -- two of the biggest multinational companies in China, and self-professed leaders in corporate social responsibility -- found themselves teamed up: on a list of the top 12 factories causing water
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Beijing Adds More Than 1,200 Cars to Its Roads Daily in First Half of 2009
Between January and July of 2009, Beijing streets were graced with an 1,231 additional cars per day on average, according to the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau (via: Economic Times). All those new cars add up to an
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China's High Speed Rail Will Leave U.S. in the Dust
While it attempts to kick-start its struggling auto industry, the U.S. is talking about building a high-speed rail network with an initial $8 billion in stimulus funds. Meanwhile, China is investing over $300 billion in high-speed rail
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China Speeds Up Its Drive to Close Inefficient Coal Plants
Taking advantage of a slowdown in electricity demand, China has sped up a campaign to close small, inefficient coal-fired power plants, a major source of the country's pollution.
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Greening China's Mayors: A Q&A; with Dr. Steve Hammer of the Mayoral Training Program on Energy Smart Cities
"There are lots of questions" To meet its ambitious goals -- a 20 percent increase in energy productivity and a ten percent decrease in emissions compared to 2005 levels by the end of 2010 -- China will need to rely on strong national policies, like the
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Beijing's Olympic Pollution Solution: Luck + Data Manipulation
At last summer's Olympics, Beijing came out on top in the medal count and on the balance sheets. But as the city's air pollution again pushes dangerous levels, two new reports point out that pollution during the Games was
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As U.S. Cities Waver on Plastic Bag Tax, China's Bag Ban Saved 1.6 Million Tons of Oil
A ban on super thin plastic bags cut the use of 40 billion bags, reduced plastic bag usage by 66 percent and saved China 1.6 million tons of petroleum, according to recent government estimates, Worldwatch reports.
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How Development is Hurting, Not Helping, China's Poor (Video)
China's biggest defense of its massive greenhouse gas emissions is its need to develop like West has, mostly in order to lift its people out of poverty.
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Video: How Geothermal Is Heating Up in Beijing
Plus Rapping In the latest episode of the eco-rap-documentary series China's Green Beat, Sustainable John explores one of the most abundant but least-recognized renewable heating-and-cooling sources, lying deep beneath the feet of Beijingers:
