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April 28, 2015 by Jason Li

Check out chinadialogue’s Kickstarter campaign to set up this year’s Citizen Journalist Award for environmental reporting in China.

Hong Kong’s First Online Petitions Platform

October 14, 2013 by Jason Li

Full disclosure: I worked on the design for this project.

Online petition platforms have taken off in the English speaking world, but what about a Chinese petition platform? In the US and UK, the government both run official petition platforms (remember the Death Star petition to the White House?) and there are a whole…

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The (Un)Life of Pig: Shanghai River Filled with Pig Bodies

June 10, 2013 by The Editor

Editor’s note: This article has been reposted with permission from The Civic Beat: World Report.
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SHANGHAI– Thousands of pig carcasses, nearly 16,000 as of last count, have been found in Huangpu River, one of the many that supply Shanghai, the bustling, rising megacity and…

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Chinese companies join international climate agreement

December 14, 2008 by Jason Li

This is almost two months old, but I think it’s interesting nonetheless…

The companies who have recently joined the London-based the Climate Group include China Mobile, Suntech, Broad Air Conditioning and Lenovo.

According to the Guardian, “China Mobile has agreed, initially, to reduce energy intensity of its $47bn (about £29bn) annual business by 40%, double the national target.”

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Support citizen journalism around the environment in China

The (Un)Life of Pig: Shanghai River Filled with Pig Bodies

Chinese companies join international climate agreement