China

The US and China, the two countries who produce and consume the most will largely determine our environmental future. The effects of our choices will probably be felt most and most immediately in Africa.

See also Globalization and Entrepreneurship

Consumption

Sustainability

and Third World Development

Mark Hertsgaard writes extensively on China in his excellent book Earth Odyssey see also Google book. This article is based on the book.

People

List of Chinese environmentalists

Madame Jiaman JIN, Executive Director of China's Global Environmental Institute COP15 video

Wang Canfa, director of the Beijing-based Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims.

Wang Yongchen, a journalist with China National Radio, co-founded Green Earth Volunteers, one of China's first environmental NGOs.

Pigpenning Mindi's blog, who is "currently dissertating on the Chinese pig industry while living in Sichuan Province. I write about pigs, agriculture, development, politics, agribusiness, and my experiences in the Middle Kingdom."

Video

China tries to combat pollution, while keeping up with its phenomenal industrial growth. 4/11

Up the Yangtze explores lives transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history, a hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle. Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic locales will be submerged, and 2 million people will lose their homes and livelihoods.

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall The world's largest shopping mall, in Guangzhou, China, is almost entirely empty. POV PBS

Photographer Edward Burtynsky documents how humans alter the world, and to a lesser degree the people engaged in doing the work [1]. A video, Manufactured Landscapes, (trailer) was made about his trip to China and its factories and the Three Gorges Dam. Excerpt from Manufactured Landscapes.

Design: e2 - China: From Red to Green. The series moves to China, whose soaring population and rapid industrialization have created a boom in urbanization that is unprecedented in human history. In an attempt to tackle this global issue, the episode explores design solutions in both theory and practice, including Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid Project, which when completed will be the largest residential, geothermal heating/cooling and greywater recycling system in the world. Also featured is architect, designer and winner of three U.S. Presidential Awards William McDonough. Recognized by Time magazine as “Hero of the Planet,” McDonough talks about his innovative plans to make China an entirely sustainable country and how it will demonstrate the ways architecture can be both profitable and environmentally intelligent.

Great Wall Across the Yangtze. To China’s leaders, the Three Gorges Dam is the most significant engineering feat since the construction of the Great Wall, but to its critics worldwide, it is a social and environmental disaster. As the debate rages on, GREAT WALL ACROSS THE YANGTZE tells the complex story of extraordinary sacrifice in the face of modernization.

Economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China Rules the World," he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers three building blocks for understanding what China is and will become. TEDtalk 10/10

Books

Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River: Nature and Power in the People's Republic of ChinaR. Edward Grumbine is the author of Ghost Bears (Island Press, 1992). He teaches environmental studies at Prescott College and directed the Sierra Institute, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, for more than a decade.

China's environment and the challenge of sustainable development Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005 McH Stacks - HC430.E5 C43 2005 Online

Articles

China is build large numbers of dams, which could lead to conflict in the region. 4/11 The world's largest is is the Three Gorges Dam images also NPR story 2008 (text and audio).

China's new eco-city 1/11

Air Quality 3/10.

UCSC Research

R. Edward Grumbine is the author of Ghost Bears (Island Press, 1992). He teaches environmental studies at Prescott College and directed the Sierra Institute, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, for more than a decade. He has written a new book on China, Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River