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Xi’an Marks the Spot
The state of China’s student activist movement
Dongli Zhang and Nathan Wyeth, Grist
“Watch out.” That’s what one student leader, Hu Kunzhu, told us in a sweltering university dining hall in Xi’an this August.
We were in this ancient capital of China for the College Environmental Groups Forum, which brought together students from more than 60 universities across the country. These included representatives from the far-flung wealthy provinces of the east coast and the relatively impoverished desert west, together for the first-ever national conference of the country’s quickly emerging — and much needed — student environmental movement.
A moment after Hu had issued his warning, he continued with a smile: “Because our goal is to outpace environmentalists in the U.S.”
Coverage of China’s environmental problems by international media has been extensive in recent years. Less widely reported is the valiant work being done quietly across China by as many as 5,000 grassroots environmental organizations that have sprung up over the last decade to clean rivers, plant trees, recycle, and put China on a cleaner path of development. Among these organizations, one can find, as we did, hundreds of university associations and the passionate, energetic students who run them.
(17 Oct 2006)
Energy security and sustainability in China
(Original: Harvard’s Gallagher says U.S. automakers have not allowed for clean tech in China) (Video)
E&E TV
As China’s energy consumption continues to increase, the country is battling intense pollution in its major cities. During today’s E&ETV Event Coverage, panelists at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discuss the future of China’s energy security and sustainability. Harvard University’s Kelly Sims Gallagher and World Resources Institute’s David Jhirad weigh in on how the United States can affect China’s energy policy. Gallagher discusses China’s automobile industry and its foreign joint ventures with DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and Ford. She discusses how these relationships have contributed to China’s high emissions.
(17 Oct 2006)
China to Start Filling 2nd Oil Reserve
AP, Houston Chronicle
China will begin piping crude oil into tanks at its second oil reserve by the end of the year, reports said Monday, a move likely to raise demand further following record oil imports in September.
The first phase of oil reserve facilities at Zhoushan, an archipelago south of Shanghai, will have storage capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters (about 7.5 million barrels of oil), the state-run newspaper Economic Observer and other reports said.
(16 Oct 2006)
