China's waste-to-energy incineration facilities collectively emit 100 million tons of CO2 a year and is yet considered a "carbon saving" industry encouraged to expand to the point of overcapacity (not enough garbage to be burned). Does this make sense? insearchofgreenchina.com/solid-waste-...

Thanks Calvin and @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for introducing the book!

China just lost one of the leading figures of environmental science. She reminds us of women's role in greening the country insearchofgreenchina.com/the-women-in...

My interview with the NCUSCR on China's recent environmental history with a special focus on the important US-China interactions throughout that journey

Thanks @bertiehb.bsky.social for a great conversation about my book and China's environmental politics. @landclimate.bsky.social is one more great green podcast on my listen list! www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...

China's 1.6% YoY reduction of emissions from its power sector in Q1 2025 just provided an interesting case in point for the "energy transition" vs. "energy addition" debate. Here is my take insearchofgreenchina.com/is-energy-tr...

My new blog on recent developments regarding the Tiger Leaping Gorge Dam and a key figure who mobilized opposition to it twenty years ago. This is to continue the conversation started in my book In Search of Green China (Polity, 2025). insearchofgreenchina.com/the-son-of-j...

Per Reuters on Jan 8: BYD will be fined for each worker found in the labor rights scandal in Brazil. All 163 workers will return to China (some already have). My digest of Chinese online discussions on the case: pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2025/01/06/b...