Results tagged “environmentalissues”

Multimedia enterprise China Green has been using some very well produced short films to document China's ongoing environmental issues. In this one, they take a look at Sohota Electric, a small Guangdong firm that has been making a big profit helping the country's various giants (including CCTV) retrofit their offices to become energy efficient. Considering that reports by China’s Ministry of Construction have deemed all buildings constructed before 2000 energy inefficient, it looks like Sohota will have a lot of work on their hands in the near future.

Shanghai Scrap has a great analysis of the differences in mentality between recycling in China and recycling in the West. While in Europe and North America recycling is a moral act done almost as a penance for overconsumption, in the developing world it's done because it's economical.