The world’s population has grown by 34% to 6.3bn in 20 years73,000km2 of forest is lost across the world each year – 3.5 times the size of Wales 60% of the world’s major river have been dammed or diverted Source – The Times, taken from the UN
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She’s back – our Greenbang China blogger Yan Yan has returned from a vacation and is fresher and fitter than ever. We thought we’d have a China day on Greenbang because she’s been working so hard looking at all the eco news out there. So big it up
CHINA WATCH “Made in China” goods may rise in price, due to severe environmental-protection policies coming into force in China. There is no free lunch in this world. “Made in China” products are so cheap not only because of cheap labour but poor enforcement of environmental and pollution laws. It
CHINA WATCH Director Chen Kaige was named 2006’s ungreen-person-of-the-year for reportedly destroying the natural environment at Shangri-La in Yunnan province while shooting for his previous movie. He has now returned to the limelight to be “green” when shooting his new film in Beijing’s Forbidden City this time, according
CHINA WATCH The Yellow and Yangtze rivers are called the Mother Rivers of China, and now they are probably like the Thames in the 1950s. Greenbang China once looked at the Yangtze River from a plane, and found out the water seemed shiny because of the greasy pollutants in the
CHINA WATCH A Chinese official stepped up to deny any environmental disasters caused by the Three Gorges gigantic dam project, as Greenbang reported one week ago. Wang Hongju, mayor of Chongqing Municipality said, “The Three Gorges project has not deteriorated the environment in Chongqing.” cited by Chinadaily. Chongqing Municipality and
CHINA WATCH A friend in Shanghai strongly recommended Greenbang China to write about its airport – the Shanghai Pudong International. Okay, so it’s an airport – not exactly friend of the Earth. Though this project is not yet finished, the energy-saving plan sounds promising. The airport is going to use natural
Yup, that’s right, check out Tom’s MySpace site and his videos: one on his new film, one on his electric car. You know, pretty much like anyone else’s site… My Electric Car – Part 1 Add to My Profile | More Videos
Greenbang had thought (and hoped) that email would kill off the need to use up so much paper and letter-miles to deliver post around the country every week. But in fact, mail has effectively just become the delivery arm of the web (think Amazon, etc). But now, a new, greener
One of Greenbang’s mates in South Africa alerted him to this amazing story about a Brazilian city called Curitiba. Ever heard of it? No, neither had we. But it turns out that the city is a showcase for excellent urban planning in all kinds of ways. In a poll
Greenbang’s just spotted some of the new ‘Starve your bin’ adverts while out for his jog. The ads are aimed at getting Londoners to recycle more. We think they’re pretty cool. The campaign kicked off last week with this note from Ken: The Mayor of London has called
