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Green Hops: Solar Irrigation, MEP Hall of Shame, Beijing Traffic

Nuclear is Hot. Big 5 power company China Huaneng Group has signed contracts with suppliers to equip its first nuclear power plant in Shandong province. The plant, planned for 200 MW in its first phase with a 2013 start date, will boast “high temperature, gas-cooled technology” (HTR-PM), which is supposed to be safer and simpler [...]

October 12th, 2008 | Tags: Asian Development Bank, automotive, Beijing, blacklist, China, China Huaneng Group, CHina Solar & Clean Energy Solutions, energy efficiency, governance, green hops, Guangxi, information strategies, Jiangsu, Ministry of Environmental Protection, pollution, recycling, rural development, Shenzhen, solar, transportation, water, water pollution, Xinjiang | Category: automotive, governance, green hops, nuclear, policy, recylcling, rural development, solar, transportation, water | Comments (1)

Green Hops: Emissions Exchanges, Nuke Dreams, Siemens

More on the Green Olympics. Just one more day to the opening ceremonies! In our last post, we examined some of the stopgap measures that Beijing embarked on to deliver on its Green Olympics promises. Louis Schwartz, one of my favorite commentators on China’s clean tech scene, provides some juicy details of the kinds of [...]

August 7th, 2008 | Tags: capital and finance, China, clean coal, energy efficiency, gasification, Green Olympics, Nationael Energy Administration, nuclear, policy, Siemens | Category: capital and finance, coal, energy efficiency, green hops, nuclear, policy | Comments (2)

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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.