Back to Part 1 or Part 2 The third major shift that is coming in the next several decades is the rise of the rest of the world. For all of our recorded history, the West has dominated the world. Greece and Rome, the Norse and the Celts, the colonial powers, the British Empire, the…
Roundup: What people are saying about Trump’s executive order on climate
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that rolls back many of Barack Obama’s climate policies, including those aimed at meeting the targets of the Paris climate agreement. The full text of the order is available at PBS, the full text annotated by an expert in environmental law is available at Vox.…
China Considers Pollution Data a State Secret, Canada Agrees
A post on Global Voices* today says that “China Considers Pollution Data a State Secret“. “China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has rejected a Chinese lawyer’s request for the details of a national survey on soil protection after deeming the information a state secret. The public and media are now pressing the Ministry to reverse its…
China Considers Pollution Data a State Secret, Canada Agrees
A post on Global Voices* today says that “China Considers Pollution Data a State Secret“. “China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has rejected a Chinese lawyer’s request for the details of a national survey on soil protection after deeming the information a state secret. The public and media are now pressing the Ministry to reverse its…
China’s Zero-Carbon City Dongtan Delayed, But Not Necessarily Dead, Says Planner (Treehugger)
Last year, I wrote a post mourning the demise of one of the world’s most exciting construction projects: an ecologically sustainable city for half a million people off the coast of Shanghai called Dongtan. The idea was ambitious: a city without a landfill or cars, producing its own renewable electricity and generating zero carbon emissions. Originally…
Woodhands Bring Back Love From Beijing
The Woodhands China Blog The Woodhands recently visited China along with Daniel Wesley, You say party! We say die! (who can’t get into the US but can tour more open countries like China), Buck 65 and Champion. The Woodhands kept a blog of that visit, cataloguing some of their interesting findings which you can check…
cbc.ca Returns to China
Last Week CBC President Hubert T. Lacroix asking China to unblock the CBC and allow their citizens as well as Canadians in China for the Olympics access to CBC Web Content. Today it would appear that the CBC, along with BBC and Wikipedia have been unblocked by the Chinese.
CBC President asks China to unblock websites
Via Tea Makers. New CBC president Hubert T. Lacroix has written to the Chinese ambassador asking that the CBC’s websites be unblocked and allowed to pass through the ‘great firewall of China’. From CBC News: “Access in China to CBC’s French-language website Radio-Canada.ca has been blocked for six months, while access to the English site…
Tibet
Normally I don’t delve into international politics on this blog. I should also say that as much as I believe that China should remove itself from Tibet I don’t see how that will happen. China is now fully a military and economic superpower and the global economy generally and most countries individually are dependent on…
Breaking Links: Monday, December 3, 2007
Michael Geist has a list of things you can do to fight DCMA: The bill was bought from the Canadian Republican (aka ‘conservative’) party by US lobbyists and would essentially align Canadian copyright laws with those in the States. “First, the bill is likely to include provisions (the anti-circumvention provisions) that have been proven to…