Rob | July 14, 2009
China went headlong into globalization after Deng Xiaoping’s speech in 1978, and has been one of the major builders and beneficiaries of globalization since that time. However, there is a somewhat strange relic of the old, paranoid approach to the world that is risking unravelling all that progress that China has made along those lines.
National [...]
Rob | May 19, 2009
Well, now I don’t feel nearly so lonely out here in blogland — it seems that any website on blogspot.com has been blocked in China.
This blockage is causing huge problems for bloggers inside China – particularly some of the best blogs on the environment such as
, which is blogspot based. Not only is it [...]
Rob | March 12, 2009
The recycling market in China has collapsed, meaning that your recyclables don’t have anywhere to go anymore. Turns out recycling isn’t that great – and reduction of trash is going to have to be the way to go.
Rob | February 19, 2009
I know I’ve been negligent in my China-Canada relationship posts – or any posts at all, but I received a copy of the California Green Innovation Index report from a colleague today, and after looking at it, I thought – geez, they only talk about energy and climate change in here. Has the Colorado River [...]
Rob | January 14, 2009
This blog has been blocked in China, to my great frustration, for quite a long time, so I have decided to remove the Chinese language posts. I hope this will remedy the situation and get my blog online here.
This frustration has prevented me from posting easily, and I think posting is much more important than [...]
