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Updates in Sustainability – Shanghai Expo, Juccce, Vancouver

About half a year ago, I joined an non-profit in China – JUCCCE – Joint US-China Colloboration on Clean Energy. They are quite an interesting group in the sense that they are not focusing too much on grassroot movements, but more on influencing the policy makers. [...]

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Some suggestions for Vancouver's Translink System

After coming back to Vancouver, I had a great aspiration to be more green in my life.  One of the areas in focus is the transportation.  Having lived in Beijing the last few years, and without a car, I am very used to traveling by public transit.   Of course, it also helps that the [...]

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Some ways to reduce transportation footprint

Transportation is a big part of a city’s carbon footprint, responsible for over 25% of total carbon output.

There are some ideas about how to reduce the transportation footprint:

Idle-free zone –  Vancouver started the program a few years ago. It is now illegal to have your car idled for over 3 minutes.
Electric vehicle incentives – newly built apartments built in [...]

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Steps to Create a Green Business

Some people had asked me before, how to make my business more “Green”? There are numerous articles on the web, and they can be summarized into a few steps.
1. Dedicate personnel/Green team; 2. Develop a Goal; 3.Work out the Plan; 4. Communicate [...]

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