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By: Subsidizing zeppelins - November 18th, 2009 - China Economic Review

Subsidizing zeppelins - November 18th, 2009 - China Economic Review — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:36:30 +0000

[...] zeppelins. Innovation, especially when steered by governments, is not a panacea, or so argues the Green Leap Forward. After all, energy conservation doesn’t require much in the way of invention, just changing the way [...]

By: The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Senate Foreign Relations Hearing: China will not accept caps, but must be pushed to MRV

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:03:43 +0000

[...] system and economic system is there to support it [GLF note: sound familiar? See previous post "Technological innovation as a panacea? Bah hambug!"] When I speak with U.S. companies…what they talk about in their dealings with China is [...]

By: The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » U.S.-China: Cooperate we must, but please, no G2!

Sat, 30 May 2009 17:34:09 +0000

[...] Perhaps some of the more interesting U.S. initiatives we have seen recently are the mayoral training program by the Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) and the training of environmental managers under the Guangdong Environmental Partnership program run by the Institute of Sustainable Communities (ISC). The JUCCCE and ISC program are civil-society led initiatives that creates real impactful capacity building beyond (A) the rhetoric at the government-to-government level, and (2) technological solutions (solar, cleaner coal, blah blah blah…) but instead looks at “software” and “heartware” (as opposed to just “hardware”), which is a much more difficult but absolutely necessary task to embark on. See previous post “Technology as a Panacea? Bah Hambug!“). [...]

By: The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Electrifying Singapore: Drivers and Roadblocks

The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Electrifying Singapore: Drivers and Roadblocks — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:05:56 +0000

[...] oil and putting their faith on “technology” to find new sources of black gold, as if technology were a panacea, then you know the transition won’t be [...]

By: The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Blog Archive » The Best of 2008

The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Blog Archive » The Best of 2008 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:08:33 +0000

[...] posts, but it was still five bullet points. And I will cheat further with a special mention for “Technology Innovation as a Panacea? Bah Hambug!” (Mar 24), a post that set the tone for my philosophical approach to Green, and was (and [...]