China community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across China. Community resources China is a separate page.
News
Siberian crane recovering from 'near-extinct' thanks to habitat protection, news.mongabay.com (Jan 09, 2025) - How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)
- On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)
Video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Friends of Nature FON, Friends of Nature FON (En)
- Friends of the Earth (HK) (Hong Kong), wikipedia:Friends of the Earth (HK)
- Global Environmental Institute (GEI)
- China Green Drinks, listings for 7 cities
Community and voluntary action
Climate action
- The Carbon Brief Profile: China, 2023, added 11:15, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Climate change in China, China Carbon Forum
Biodiversity
Environment quality
Desertification is causing a crisis in China and neighboring countries. Desert storms from Central Asia are causing destruction across large parts of northern Asia. Every spring, dust from China's northern deserts is blown eastward, into Beijing and other cities, even as far as Korea. A blanket of particles coats buildings, cars, and people, and hospitals are inundated with patients suffering respiratory problems. The dust threatens to shut down the city, getting into machinery, closing airports, and damaging crops. It can carry pollution and even potentially infectious disease.
Overgrazing, deforestation, and drought combine to turn vulnerable arid lands to desert, with a loose topsoil easily transported by wind. The dunes are now around 250 km from Beijing.
The Green Great Wall of China is an attempt to reverse the desertification.
Open spaces
Wetlands
Cycling activism
Citizens data initiative: China has the greatest number of bike share systems for a single country (237 in total) (September 2015)...Sustainable Cities Collective
Social inclusion
Sustainable transport activism
Urban sustainability
About China
China is the most populous nation on Earth. It covers a massive land area There is both great poverty and great wealth there. It is a nominally communist nation - largely free market in practice, but access to information is restricted and government regulation is extensive in many areas, notably the one child policy for reducing population growth.
China is investing large amounts in sustainable technologies such as solar energy, as well as low-carbon technologies such as carbon capture and storage. However, it continues to build large numbers of coal-fired power plants.
External links
- Hong Kong: Conservation in Hong Kong, Ecology of Hong Kong, Nature centres in Hong Kong, Transport in Hong Kong, Water supply and sanitation in Hong Kong
via List of Ashden Award winners, winners in China from 2006 - 2008
wikipedia:List of Ashden Award winners, winner from USA/China in 2009