Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution to green China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2008
Organizers of the Beijing Olympics are boasting of all the renewable energy and water conservation technologies that are incorporated into the Olympic infrastructure, as well as the recent opening of the 680 hectre “green lung” in the form of the Olympic Forest Park.
But this wasn’t what anyone had in mind when Beijing pitched the [...]
Posted in climate change, green hops, transportation on Jul 4th, 2008
Happy Fourth of July to our American readers. As Thomas Friedman, renown New York Times columnist and cleantech convert, likes to say, “Green is the new Red, White and Blue.” US energy security and indeed economic development through the creation of green collar jobs depend on a thriving cleantech industry. In the international [...]
Posted in water on Jul 2nd, 2008
Last week, Singapore International Water Week was held together with two other high profile conferences—the World Cities Summit and the East Asia Summit Conference on Livable Cities—in Singapore. With the focus on Asia and water, China water issues naturally took center stage. The Green Leap Forward takes a look at China’s unique water challenges, and [...]
