Its been a HUGE week for solar. Bidding details on the first solar farm concession were announced, while a new solar roofs program to popularize photovoltaics (PV) in rural and urban areas has been launched. The Green Leap Forward discusses the details both developments and their implications to China’s domestic solar market.
Over the past weekend, [...]
A guest post by Heather Chi on the promise (and potential perils) of small-scale organic agriculture in China.
Given the urgent need to reform China’s agriculture and food production infrastructure in the context of rising concerns about the country’s ability to feed its growing population, the need to ensure food safety for locally grown and [...]
We don’t usually announce every event but this one’s gonna be interesting…We (the Beijing Energy Network, of which GLF is a founder) are hosting Lynn Price and Zhou Nan of Lawrence Berekeley Lab’s China Energy Program at the Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER) this Thursday, March 19 at Blue Frog Bar in Sanlitun Village [...]
This edition of Green Hops is dedicated to Andrew Symon, a Singapore-based journalist specializing in energy and whom I have had the pleasure and honor of making an acquaintance of as a result of his writings at Asia Times Online. He passed away unexpectedly on February 24, 2009. Andrew’s generosity, sense of mission and powerful [...]
It’s been a while since we had a post dedicated to renewables, so let’s me divert you to two articles on solar. The first, the cover feature “Here Comes the Sun” of The Beijinger its green issue this March, speaks to the general state of China’s solar industry and concludes that despite the tough times [...]
