Blue Green Planet

Stanford Tzu Ching participating in a food distribution to low-income families in San Jose.

For Evan, who passed quals.

On Thursday, we're screening a Discovery Channel documentary on Tzu Chi 慈濟基金會 ("Compassion & Relief"), the largest NGO...

A balance has to be achieved between preservation and upholding living standards for residents. It seems that the city of Djenné, a UNESCO s...

Credit to Dan Maas and Tzu Ching Indonesia

  今天是中華民國建國一百年的元旦！中華民國萬歲! 台彎加油！ Go Taiwan! Today marks the start of the 100th Year of the Republic. Long live the Republic of China! The dr...

Some additional commentary on the subject: The way Facebook would spread in China is through "your friends having it." It's ...

My friend Kai Lukoff notes on Quora : A Facebook that appeases the Chinese government might be a net positive for Chinese netizens, but I t...

It'd be awesome if the U.S. military became the most mobile military in the world, less dependent on fossil fuels than our competitors, ...

Already popular in Europe, the Passive House standard for energy-efficient buildings is "gaining ground with U.S. designers and archite...

As reported in the New York Times : "Beijing has pressed for a boycott of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, which will recognize the imp...

If you haven't, you might want to take a look at this op-ed in the IHT today. A Color Revolution in China? Keep It Red http://www.nyt...

I think I ruined someone's interview in the new Science & Engineering Quad this afternoon. I was walking on the grass, thinking abou...

Hilarious. But somehow not so funny. Friedman's column today hypothesized what China's diplomatic cables might say if they were W...

On Monday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu warned that in the global clean energy race, "America still has the opportunity to lead"...

Food safety reform may take a big step forward when the Senate votes on the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization bill this week, write Michael P...

Thanksgiving is not yet 48 hours past, and everything already feels like Christmas. Yesterday was "Black Friday", a day when hor...

Ouch, American history can bite, LOL. A hilarious reenactment of the first Thanksgiving. The situation is tragic, but the kids are great...

Article in Reuters on the priority of environmental thinking in Taiwan, where it's really recognized as a key advantage in order to com...

Guys, don't be douchebags. Girls, don't be b-tches. It's really unbecoming. How can kids be exposed to literature (including ...