It has been my habit over the ten years or so to accumulate stories and writings and put them together every month or so (it has been much more infrequent lately) into eight volumes of Dispatches from China. It has been a year with no new Dispatch so I have decided to share some recent articles and presentations.
I will soon be posting the following while also trying to get another Dispatch off soon.
Recent Articles and Presentations:
“China can Lead the World on a Soft Path,” submitted to Beijing Review
“Will we have enough Leaders in time?” with Cyrille Jegu
Published in “Sustainability Tomorrow,”Vol. 4(4), October-December, 2009)
“Implementation is the Key to the Green Leap Forward”
As appearing in Shanghai Daily, Jan, 22, 2010. [bad link] http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=426511&type=Opinion
“What is Sustainability”
Presentation to Shanghai Customs College faculty and students.
“Towards Sustainable Cities,” with Cyrille Jegu
Written for book on Eco-Cities being published by glObserver (in press).
“You are Here”
Maps at the World Expo leading in the wrong direction as appearing in China Daily, 5/28/10. [bad link] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010expo/2010-05/28/content_9908649.htm
“Sustaining Youth”
Presentation for “International Children’s Day Program” at World Expo 2010, sponsored by UNESCO, Soong Ching Ling Foundation and Beautiful Life Development Plan Foundation.
“This is China”
Guide for first time visitors to China and the World Expo (in press).
“Primer on Eco-City Innovations”
Documentation of notable examples of sustainable design and practice at the World Expo 2010 (in preparation).
“Fake or Real, Expo Passports all about Image”
As appearing in Shanghai Daily, June 23, 2010. [bad link] http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201006/20100623/article_440746.htm
Expo Passport Stamps
Monday, June 28, 2010
DEAR Editor,
I would like to add some perspective to your reporter Jia Feishang’s comments – “Man tries flimflam with Expo stamps.” (Shanghai Daily, June 12, 2010). The trouble…
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Sustaining Youth
Saturday, June 26, 2010
We are here to celebrate a new generation of young environmentalists. With each generation we vest our hopes in them to do it better than we have done before. It is a joy to be with kindred spirits again – with the budding idealism and unbridled enthusiasm and the faith in human nature of youth. It is, indeed,…
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“You Are Here”
Saturday, June 26, 2010
I like maps. It is all about feeling in context, I suppose. I want to have an idea where I fit in space. I like History too, it puts you in the context of time and Ecology because I want to know where I fit in the real scheme of things – in the process of life, if you will. These are all good topics for other essays, but here I want to focus on the work of the cartographer – who…
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Towards More Sustainable Cities
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Approximately 600 million now live in China’s cities representing about 45 percent of the population but the scale and pace of China’s urbanization promises to continue at an unprecedented rate. If current trends hold, China’s urban population will expand from 572 million in 2005 to 926 million…
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The Business Response to Climate Change
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Business response to climate change varies greatly. Some businesses don’t even acknowledge the existence of climate change and therefore the necessity to do anything about it. Others acknowledge it, but do nothing about it either because they don’t really take it seriously, they…
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