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Hummer Fades Away

Back in 2008 we wrote here that the SUV is dying and now in 2010 the Hummer has met its doom. You ready for this?
General Motors has stopped making Hummers and selling the brand is really hard.
Now that’s good news!
General Motors Co. failed to win approval from Chinese regulators to sell its Hummer brand [...]

February 25th, 2010
Topic: Transportation Tags: , , ,

Renewable Energy in China is Booming

When most people think of China and energy coal generally comes to mind, indeed China is the world’s biggest user of coal for energy. That may not change anytime soon but what the Chinese government is doing now is expanding their renewable power and becoming the world’s largest exporter of renewable technology. We can all [...]

February 2nd, 2010
Topic: Energy, Technology Tags: , , ,

Google Stops Censorship in China

Google has changed how it approaches its business in China due to China trying to spy on some gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. THey have removed censorship from their search engine so now you can search for “Tiananmen Square” in China and get the same results the rest of get.
It’s a good day [...]

January 13th, 2010
Topic: Freedom Tags: , , , ,

1,000 Chinese Youth Educating People About the Environment

The United Nations and China have started a program this summer that will employ 1,000 youth to talk about the environment. The youth will teach people how to be more conscious about the environment and what individuals can do to protect it.
Through a new training program called “One Thousand Environment-Friendly Youth Ambassadors Action,” eight Chinese [...]

July 3rd, 2009
Topic: Direct Action, Environment Tags: , , , , ,

China Building World’s Most Efficient Skyscraper

Guangzhou, China will have the world’s most efficient skyscraper when it’s completed in 2010. The country that is known for bad air quality in its cities is realizing that things need to change and they’re working on it.

The Pearl River Tower, now being erected in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong province, is being billed [...]

May 28th, 2009
Topic: Good Fact Tags: , , ,

China Rules the Air

We just saw that Mexico has a huge wind farm, well it’s apparently nothing compared to what China is up to. China is now the world’s largest producer of wind energy, and this is only in a couple years of installing wind-powered generators.
China last year doubled its wind energy capacity – for the fourth straight [...]

February 5th, 2009
Topic: Energy, Environment Tags: ,