Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution to green China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in CDM, Uncategorized, capital and finance, energy efficiency, policy on Jun 12th, 2008
If China’s Green Leap Forward fails for whatever reason, it won’t be because of the lack of cash. Generally speaking, it has never been better to be a clean tech entrepreneur or project developer. Investment dollars are pouring in globally from hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, multinational corporations and development banks. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2008
The Green Leap Forward joins the people of China and the rest of the world in these few days of mourning over the victims of the Sichuan earthquake (see all the coverage on China Daily here). We also join arms with our brothers and sisters in Myanmar who are dealing a horrific natural catastrophe of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
The Green Leap Forward is just over six months old. First formerly introduced to the China blogosphere by ResponsibleChina, GLF was also recently featured as an editor’s pick by the China Economic Review. In addition, GLF has today made it to both the China and Green lists under Alltop, the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki.
I am [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, automotive, government, transportation, urban planning on May 3rd, 2008
Gridlock in Chongqing: Is this what they call progress?
While one can take heart that what seem liked unabated proliferation of SUVs just a few years ago is giving way to a range of smaller, more fuel efficient passenger vehicles (see last post on my review of the Beijing auto show), the fact remains that China [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, automotive on Apr 22nd, 2008
Today is Earth Day. Happy Earth Day.
Today is also the opening ceremony of the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition 2008, which runs all week.
This ironic confluence of Earth Day and the Beijing Auto Show is perhaps iconic of the economy versus ecology juggling act that China has had to deal with. China is experiencing an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, biofuels on Apr 15th, 2008
In the wake of the looming food crisis, biofuels are becoming more and more suspect as a sustainable long term substitute for oil, and in fact, are viewed as one of the chief culprits in the soaring prices of corn, soybean and other agricultural commodities that are feedstock to biofuels production. The diverted demand of [...]
