by Angel Hsu | Jul 11, 2012 | Sights
The above quote is from an article in the Global Times regarding the recent environmental protests against a heavy-metals refinery in Shifang, which is located in Sichuan province. Thousands of Chinese citizens have taken to the streets to protest, and it’s...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | Sights
Last Saturday evening, I attended my first Beijing Community Dinner, which featured Li Bo, the outgoing director of Beijing’s oldest NGO, Friends of Nature. He spoke about the the first non-victim public interest environmental lawsuit Friends of Nature and other...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | China, Sights
Great news – Beijing finally has a bike-sharing program! Now I don’t have to worry when the next time my bike is stolen (notice I said *when and not *if), where I’ll be able to easily get a set of wheels to help navigating Beijing’s extremely...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | Sights
Last Saturday, I attended a talk that featured Joy Chen, an Asian-American woman who was the former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles. It was interesting that she wrote a book for Chinese women, “Don’t marry before you’re 30,” that supposedly tells...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 12, 2012 | Sights
Next week on June 19 in Rio de Janeiro, a couple of students and I from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will host a workshop at the Rio+20 Earth Summit to launch an interactive game we developed that demonstrates the difficulties of multilateral...
by Angel Hsu | Jun 12, 2012 | China, Sights
A few ambitious undergraduate students from Beijing City University filmed a documentary on air quality in Beijing, particularly examining the issue of PM 2.5 measurement and reporting. They interviewed me when I was in Beijing in March. The reason why I speak in...
