Tag Archives: 自然资源
The Yin and Yang of GDP and Environment Posted by Stephen on Sep 21, 2011
Anyone looking for a lesson in both climate change and sustainability (持续性 chíxùxìng) needs to visit China. In a country full of contradictions or 矛盾 (máodùn), it only makes sense that some of the worse environmental degradation is contrasted by very progressive attempts at conservation and sustainability wherever possible. China is unique because nowhere else…
Recycling (回收利用) Posted by Stephen on Aug 24, 2011
Growing up, I was always told: “waste not, want not”. I would recycle, turn off lights and save water whenever possible. Yet after living in China, I realized that there was more to it than that. In my first weeks living in China, I soon found myself wasting more than your average 老百姓 (lǎo bǎi…