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Guardian names @GreenLeapFwd as one of “Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow”

My blogging has been irregular as of late due to heavy commitments with my day job, but to compensate, I hope my blog readers have also been following my regular tweets at @GreenLeapFwd. Today,The Guardian named me among the “Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow“, and #4 among climate bloggers. A great honor!
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May 11th, 2010 | Tags: China, energy, environment, twitter | Category: information strategies | Comments (1)

High-Tech Transportation for a Growing Nation

A Look Under the Hood at China’s High-Speed Rail Investments, originally published here.

We took the high-speed CRH3 train that runs between Beijing and Tianjin. Technology for the CRH3, assembled in China, was originally derived from Siemens’ Valero line of train technologies.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower put a down payment on the U.S. [...]

May 4th, 2010 | Tags: China, energy, environment, high-speed rail, highway infrastructure, mobility, transportation | Category: transportation | Comments (1)

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What is the Green Leap Forward?

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. It is now widely seen, both within and outside of China, as an major economic (and environmental) disaster.

By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.