Here's a good new way to help out a local charity, and avoid paying the scandalous prices some businesses are now charging for carrier bags (we're looking at you Waga's...) Helping Hand SH is offering a series of products with all profits going to one of four local charities. Their first product is a re-usable shopping bags featuring logos of four local charities and is on sale now. The bags cost 50rmb for 3 units......

During his discussion with Kerry Brown and Duncan Hewitt at the recently held Shanghai International Literary Festival, Paul French quoted British environmentalist Jonathon Porritt as saying that "the biggest problem with the environment in China is that nobody in China could care less about it". China's environmental woes are well-documented and, despite attempts to convince the world otherwise, the country is still rarely seen as a leader on environmental protection. Having twenty of the world's......

(Roots & Shoots video about Jane Goodall...and gnomes) Shanghaiist loves any reason to go out, and usually the prospect of catching a great band play is enough for us. So the fact that the ticket sales from this weekends Rock for Roots and Shoots will go to one of our favorite charities ( ">Roots and Shoots) makes this a must see event. For the measly sum of 50RMB (which equals 2 trees planted by R&S......