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JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum–Closing Summary

The following is the complete transcript, modified and supplemented for completeness and readability, of the closing speech that the author of this blog (pictured below) delivered on November 11 at the JUCCCE Clean Energy Forum in Beijing.
We are at war.  A world war.  But unlike World War I or II, this is not a war [...]

BYD Auto Hits the Buffet Line

Legendary investor Warren Buffet has had a busy, busy, busy week.  (That’s one “busy” for each of the high profile deals he has made and he certainly deserves to take a seat after that, as pictured, if even for a brief moment.)
In the midst of a financial meltdown in Wall Street, Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway made [...]

Is Michael Vick a Fan of Formula One?–The Case Against Motorsports

Consider this fact. March 29, 2008 was Earth Hour, a global campaign in which 50 million people across 370 cities and towns and 35 countries, including Singapore, switched off their lights for one hour starting at 8:00 pm to demonstrate a collective concern on the paramount issue of climate change. And guess what organizers of [...]

Electric Dreams–BYD Auto Brings Electric Cars to Israel

Earlier this spring this blog identified an upstart Chinese auto company called BYD Auto that is, despite is short operating history in the auto industry, introducing one of the most innovative automobile makes in the industry—a fully commercial electric car—ahead the likes of established auto giants like General Motors (and its flagship electric car make—the [...]


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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.

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