About the Author
Dec 1st, 2007 by Julian
Until recently, Julian Wong was a private equity mergers & acquisitions attorney in New York and Hong Kong and a member of the New York City Bar Association Energy Committee. Julian holds a B.A in Biology from Pomona College, a M.A. in Environmental & Energy Policy from Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, and a J.D. from Duke Law School. Julian is currently a Fulbright Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing where he is writing extensively on China’s renewable energy industries in the form of this blog. Julian is also the author of “The Solar Coaster,” a blog dedicated to solar energy policy and technology. He would really like to hear from anyone who would like to exchange ideas about greening this world. He can be reached at julian [at] greenleapforward.com.
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Hi there. Really interesting blog you have there. Will be coming back for more of your juicy articles. Do add me in your blogroll : http://www.maple3.com/. Cheers!
Hey Julian. Thanks for the addition on the blogroll.
There is this event called lights out happening in Shanghai and Beijing.
You can cover it too. I will be covering my event at my blog. Cheers.
http://www.maple3.com.
Hello Julian
Most of us are only being shown half of the picture when looking at global warming. Nearly all of the discussion is about reducing future emissions – next to none is about dealing with the fact that we already have too much CO2 up there in the atmosphere and how to get it back out of circulation. We have been sending out the following for the past 18 months or so and are now starting to get some traction.
There are 2 critical aspects to addressing global warming and reversing desertification.
1 – reduce future emissions – for this TECHNOLOGY is absolutely essential.
2 – absorb the current excess legacy loadings already in circulation – for this BIOLOGY is absolutely essential.
The simple truth is that probably half of the current problem has been directly caused by inappropriate human management of our land. Changing this management can have an immediate impact as the presentation linked to below shows.
There is growing concern for significant action within the next 18 months to avoid catastrophic climate change. Please take a few minutes and look through the presentation on Soil Carbon. Very few people are aware of Soil Carbon and the critical role it can play in helping to reverse the impacts of global warming.
Did you know that just a 1% change in soil organic matter across just one-quarter of the World’s land area could sequester 300 billion tonnes of physical CO2?
Recent Australian studies have shown that a 1% change can occur within a few years – and in fact up to 4% changes were measured in some areas. The management changes required to achieve these increases are very readily implemented. I hope you find the attached presentation of interest. There are Spanish, Mexican, Italian, English, Portuguese, Japanese and German versions on our website.
http://www.soilcarbon.com.au/case_studies/index.html
Boosting soil organic matter levels is one of the only real ways to deal with the existing excess legacy load of carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere.
Hey Julian, I have published your interview on our blog. Thanks a million for taking time out to answer those questions.
http://www.socialbridges.org/2008/08/25/exclusive-an-interview-with-julian-wong-the-man-behind-green-leap-forward-chinas-top-green-and-sustainability-blog/
Best,
Saad