Happiness Index in China

Following our presentation pls see below an extract from the English version of People’s Daily on-line.
China introduces “happiness index” into regional development evaluation system
A new economic index, that goes beyond reporting reams of hard industrial data, is emerging from annual meetings of regional legislatures that recently wrapped around the country. It’s called the [...]

A government initiative that could be effective

Following is a news that I got this very morning :
China promises solar power subsidies in effort to develop clean energy industry
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090722/business/as_china_solar_power
In light of yesterday’s discussion where Jian was proposing government’s deep pocket could be effective to which I argued against. But I think I was looking at the picture from the points of views [...]

Manufactured Landscape

Thinking of sustainable development, I recall an exhibit of a famous canadian photographer.  Edward Burtynsky, did an exhibit entitled “manufactured landscape” focussing particularly on China.  This one in particular is very powerful of the coal in Tanggu port.  Very troubling in the context of sustainable development.

Global Food Supply

In this article in MacLean’s Magazine the problem of SD is nicely tied in with the current problems in global food supply.
It talks about a couple of (interrelated) issues:
1. An increasing demand for oil – we’re all aware that this resource is becoming scarcer and harder to find, and therefore (part of the reason) causing oil prices [...]

China’s pollution crisis

Hello everyone,
when we made some research on the pollution crisis in China this afternoon, I discovered a  very interesting serie of articles, videos and interactive graphics on the website of The New York Times. It has 10 parts and illustrates quiet well how everything is related one to the other- pollution, water&food supply, health problems, employement, quality of life, [...]