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Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Horrific images of pollution in China
Green Inc. Column - Tempers Flare Over Chinese Involvement in Wind Farm Planned for Texas - NYTimes.com
"News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation."
Obama and Hu agree on a successful climate conference - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
"US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao commit themselves to strive for a wide consensus and a successful Copenhagen climate change conference. "
Chinese Town's Response to Poisonous Lead Factory: Move the Town : TreeHugger
"Increasingly, concern over environmental health in cities and towns across China has led to angry public protests that have halted construction on or closed a number of factories. But after outrage over lead poisoning in a town in central China, authorities aren't turning off the smelters at fault. They're moving the whole town. "
The New Sputnik
Most people would assume that 20 years from now when historians look back at 2008-09, they will conclude that the most important thing to happen in this period was the Great Recession. I'd hold off on that. If we can continue stumbling out of this economic crisis, I believe future historians may well conclude that the most important thing to happen in the last 18 months was that Red China decided to become Green China.
Warming will cause wheat price to triple
China and a few other nations will see better conditions for growing wheat, but on a global scale production will shrink dramatically as temperatures increase, new study shows. Rice and corn also affected
China unveils plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines
China has announced plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines over the next three years.
In a breakthrough, China has developed trains that can run on both high-speed and normal lines, said railway official Zhang Shuguang.
A 500km/h train will be tested by the end of next year, Mr Zhang said
IBM Press room - 2009-09-16 IBM, Shenyang, and Northeastern University Collaborate to Create Smart, Eco-City - United States
IBM, the City of Shenyang, and China's Northeastern University announced they are embarking on a major "smart city" collaboration effort focused on enabling Shenyang to improve the lives of its citizens by meeting its environmental responsibility goals.
Wind power could cut China's emissions by 30%, US study finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk
China's energy needs are expected to double by 2030, but a study in the journal Science says the country could produce 30% less CO2 if it uses wind power to meet them
Australia overtakes US as worst per-capita carbon-dioxide polluter : Environment
Australia has overtaken the United States as the country that produces more carbon dioxide per person than any other, the British risk assessment company Maplecroft Ltd said Friday. Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out Maplecroft's list of the top five per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.
2GW Power plant capable of powering over 3 million Chinese homes being developed by First Solar
China will soon possess the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant, which will have the capacity to power up to 3 million Chinese homes with a whopping 2000MW of solar electricity. The $6 billion power plant will be constructed by US-based First Solar and construction is expected to commence next year.
China villagers riot over polluting plant: residents - Yahoo! News
Villagers in southeastern China attacked police and took local officials hostage in protests over a wastewater treatment plant they accuse of pollution, residents and state media said Tuesday.
Police had to intervene in a bid to rescue two officials taken captive in the unrest in the city of Quanzhou in coastal Fujian province, residents told AFP.
They said anger over a foul smell emitted by the plant and suspicions that it was polluting the local environment had been building for years.
Student worker at Coca-Cola plant beaten after seeking wages in arrears | CLB
A university student-worker at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was threatened and beaten by the managers of a labour supply company after he sought wages in arrears on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the Hong Kong-based pressure group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) reported today.
NewNet News - ReneSola to begin 150MW on-grid solar power project in China
Chinese solar energy company ReneSola has been granted the right to develop a 150MW on-grid solar power project in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of Wuzhong City.
China to control emissions by law - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
The world's largest emitter will draw up new laws and regulations to provide a legal basis for combating climate change. A Chinese draft resolution on climate change, which has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), proposes to include emissions control by law.
Water pollution sickens thousands in north China - Yahoo! News
Contaminated drinking water has sickened more than 2,600 people in northern China, including 59 who were hospitalized with fevers, diarrhea, stomach aches and vomiting, state media reported Wednesday.
Heavy rains caused contaminants to seep into a water supply in Chifeng city in Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, without saying what the contaminants were.
On the apparent Apple suicide
Every once in a while you get a story so strange and horrible that it takes a while to sink in. I’m talking about the suicide of a Foxconn employee who was caught doing something with an “iPhone prototype” and jumped out of the window.
China promises solar subsidies to boost industry - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Over the next two to three years the Chinese government will pay up to 50 percent of the price of solar power systems of more than 500 megawatts. In remote areas it will pay up to 70 percent of the cost.
China offers big solar subsidy | Green Business | Reuters
China has launched an unprecedented plan to offer hefty subsidies to independent solar power projects, a move that sparked a rally in the sector on Tuesday.
Department of Energy - US-China Clean Energy Research Center Announced
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Chinese Minister of Science Wan Gang, and Administrator of National Energy Administration Zhang Guo Bao today announced plans to develop a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. The Center would facilitate joint research and development on clean energy by teams of scientists and engineers from the U.S. and China, as well as serve as a clearinghouse to help researchers in each country.
Priority topics to be addressed will initially include building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles. The U.S. and China together pledged $15 million to support initial activities.
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