Blue Green Planet

There was a nifty article in The New York Times today on electric bikes: An Electric Boost for Bicyclists By J. David Goodman (Jan 31, 20...

Hong Kong, you make me sad sometimes. But according to this piece by Philip Bowring in the IHT , at least you haven't given up complete...

I can hardly write these lines. I still feel a sense of tremendous sorrow, a terrible chill, when reading works about the Cultural Revolutio...

Grist post asks "Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?" A little far-fetched ... b...

The New York Times editorial board is calling on President Obama to forge ahead with a climate bill, despite the loss of the Democrats...

Awesome commentary on Chinese architecture and urbanization from Ma Xiaowei, founder of AGER Shanghai , a landscape and architectural design...

The Asia Society has published an interview with Liu Jianqing, a journalist and environmentalist. Liu former senior investigative reporte...

Google's move is brilliant simply because it might be the only one that can pull it off. Where Chinese people do not simply have a nat...

Here are a couple of interesting analyses． I can't wait to get the SJ Mercury tomorrow. From James Fallows at The Atlantic : "I...

Google is showing us there is not only one approach, not only one way forward in China. There are legitimate options aside from capitulation...

Wow, just absolutely, wow. Google's "new approach to China" must be lighting up the blogosphere around the whole world. Here...

Recent statistics reveal China's sustained growth , which is breaking new records, even in the face of last year's worldwide economi...

Why do we destroy everything that is good and connected? Why can we not recognize the beauty and value in existence, co-existence, tranquili...

From one Embarcadero, to another Embarcadero -- and then back again. This evening, we went to watch the fireworks in San Francisco and rin...

  Wanted: Someone with a strong sense of responsibility, tough, brave and physically strong. Ability to oppose and deal with forces of evil...

An article with this headline was in the Straits Times: Fight for Chinese characters http://www.straitstimes.com/ BreakingNews/Asia/Stor...

Taiwan plans to apply for World Heritage status for traditional Chinese characters, which have existed in this form since at least the Tang ...

I just just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Wow. I bought the book when it first came out 18 months a...

I am in Taipei, Taiwan right now, and I have just visited the most wondrous bookstore.   You enter from the ground floor, passing by a parc...