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Happy Second Birthday!

Today marks the second anniversary of The Green Leap Forward.
Its been a real honor to bring news and analysis on China’s energy and environmental situation to the English-speaking world. GLF’s second year saw 65 new posts, roughly the same as the first (62) despite two major geographical relocations (Beijing -> Singapore -> Washington, D.C.) on [...]

December 2nd, 2009 | Tags: China, eco-infratructure, energy, environment, Happy Birthday, water | Category: uncategorized | Leave a comment

Happy First Birthday!

It was 366 days ago (yes 2008 was a leap year, and what a Green Leap year it has been!) that this blog was born. But as Cityweekend Beijing says in its green issue last week:
To call the green roundup on [The] Green Leap Forward ‘blogging’ is to ignore the depth and seriousness of Julian’s [...]

December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: China, energy, environment, Happy Birthday | Category: uncategorized | Comments (17)

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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.