One of my New Year’s resolutions in 2008 is to fight pessimism. Anyone else fed up with BAD news about the environment? Why is it always BAD news when there are pockets of resistance all over the world fighting for the environment against something much more dangerous and insidious than the build up of greenhouse [...]
China’s Environment Posts
Ribbed hair bands, for her pleasure
What can I really say to this, other than: if necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is her sick and twisted evil half-sister. BEIJING (AFP) – Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday. In the [...]
Carrier Bags ? Just Say 不要了
Under the influence of Thomas Newman’s haunting theme, something twirls and dances to the whim of the breeze and for a few minutes of movie history a white carrier bag is beautiful… However, anyone who’s spent any time wandering down any streets in China can tell you that whilst a single carrier bag might be [...]
