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Is China ready for climate change?
Once again, China’s ability to handle a changing climate is being tested. In 2013, rainfall in south China’s Yunnan province dropped 70 percent below average levels. This, combined with similar rainfall decline over the past three years, has turned the once water-abundant region into a much drier place. China is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change. An extreme weather event like Yunnan’s years-long drought is just one of many problems it faces. Sea level rise threatens coastal…
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MARKETS: China nears launch of large emissions trading pilot programs
SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation’s regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world’s second-largest emissions trading market. Four out of seven Chinese pilot regions — Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Hubei — have issued their versions of cap-and-trade plans for greenhouse gas emissions. While Beijing and Shenzhen have yet to unveil their final plans, major parts of them were…
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Do you know what goes into making ONE shirt?
Do you know what goes into making ONE shirt? Few people consider the underlying natural and human resources embedded into our clothing, including water, energy, chemicals, labour, and transport. Check out this Fashion Lifecycle video by Redress to see what goes into making your shirt. You’re sure to think twice the next time you design, devour or discard a garment … Watch the video here The Fashion Lifecycle 時尚生命週期
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SMART Sale Good Deals for Green Drinkers
Fairglobe is pleased to offer SMART special in accordance with the coming World Fair Trade Day on May 11, 2013. ALL products in the SMART special are fair trade certified. Many of the products are also organic certified, which is good for your health while nurturing a healthy, sustainable society. Nine Special Offers! Sale products are as follows: Divine Chocolate from UK FAIRTASTE coffee freshly roasted in Suzhou TOHI organic chocolate from Belgium Equal Exchange…
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The EcoChic Design Award 2013
Cutting waste out of fashion The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition challenging emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. The 2013 cycle is open to designers in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK, France, Belgium and Germany. Following months of inspired design and rigorous judging, eight finalists will compete for career-changing prizes…
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Living with Danger
Living with Dangerliving with danger China is the world’s largest phosphate fertilizer producer. In its current state it is at serious overcapacity. By the end of 2011 this colossal phosphate fertilizer industry has left the country with 300 million tons of phosphogypsum, an industrial by-product that contains a variety of harmful chemicals.Living with Danger China is the world’s largest phosphate fertilizer producer. In its current state it is at serious overcapacity. By the end of…
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Ugly food: the truth behind chemical fertilisers in China
When thinking about food the first image that comes to our mind might be the so-called ‘food porn’ photography that the marketing industry relies upon when advertising food products. But there is also an ugly side of food the industry is not willing to portray and it involves chemical fertilisers. Greenpeace East Asia initiated an investigation to uncover the ‘ugly side of food’, focusing on the Chinese province of Sichuan where major phosphate fertiliser production…
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2013 fourth session of China’s modern agricultural industry investment summit is coming in Beijing
2013 fourth session of China’s modern agricultural industry investment summit is coming in Beijing. Click here to get more details.
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Hydrogen energy : Interview of Darrel SMITH co-founder of Hydrostar
Company: Hydrostar / I interviewed: Darrel SMITH (Co-Founder) - CleanTuesday : What is Hydrostar? Darrel Smith : Hydrostar is a Hong Kong Corporation that is focused on a clean energy solutions that can be used in many ways to improve energy usage, improve emissions and essentially allow anyone to be an energy producer. The technology is a low-cost hydrogen technology that utilizes simple and readily available components and a green, sustainable electrolyte. - CleanTuesday : How did you come up with this idea? Darrel Smith : My business partner and I had been exposed to a similar idea some years…
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Box outside Media
Box Outside Media, in addition to producing videos for businesses (product intro/demo/testimonials, marketing and sales videos) is currently working on a new television series for international markets titled THE GREEN DRAGON. It details the amazing work a number of companies in China and Shanghai in particular are involved in while helping to sustain green living. If you, or your company helps to keep China and our world clean and green , whether directly or…
