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Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]

Community resources[edit | edit source]

Community energy[edit | edit source]

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Winds of change: China's clean energy rush is picking up speed
Authors: Greenpeace Unearthed
Date: 2016-09-21

Climate action[edit | edit source]

Biodiversity[edit | edit source]

Environment quality[edit | edit source]

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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[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia:Protected areas of China

Wetlands[edit | edit source]

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Tingjiang National Wetland Park in SE China
Authors: New China TV
Date: 2021-04-11
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Wetlands 3_Hangzhou
Authors: ChinaGreenVideos
Date: 2011-10-05

Community and voluntary action[edit | edit source]

Community energy[edit | edit source]

Cycling activism[edit | edit source]

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The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
Authors: StreetfilmsVlog
Date: 2011-06-06

Citizens data initiative: China has the greatest number of bike share systems for a single country (237 in total) (September 2015)[1]

Food activism[edit | edit source]

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Pekín, periferia

Beijing's increase in land area from 4,822 km² in 1956 to 16,808 km² in 1958 led to the increased adoption of peri-urban agriculture. Such "suburban agriculture" led to more than 70% of non-staple food in Beijing, mainly consisting of vegetables and milk, to be produced by the city itself in the 1960s and 1970s. Recently, with relative food security in China, periurban agriculture has led to improvements in the quality of the food available, as opposed to quantity. One of the more recent experiments in urban agriculture is the Modern Agricultural Science Demonstration Park in Xiaotangshan.[2]

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The west panorama of Shenzhen

Shenzhen, China, was once a small farming community and is now a fast growing metropolis because the Chinese government has designated the region an open economic zone.

Traditionally, Chinese cities have been known to mix agricultural activities within the urban setting. Due to the large and growing population in China, the government supports urban self-sufficiency in food production. Shenzhen's village structure, sustainable methods, and new agricultural advancements initiated by the government have been strategically configured to supply food for this growing city.[3]

chinese language websites for city farmers, from City Farmer News

Social inclusion[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia:Poverty in China

Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]

Urban sustainability[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Video[edit | edit source]

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Ubeng - The Heart of Sustainable Development
Authors: pofries
Date: 2006-10-31

Maps[edit | edit source]

Other resources[edit | edit source]

About China[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Sustainable Cities Collective
  2. Periurban Agriculture Development in China, Jianming, Cai, Urban Agriculture Magazine volume 9, 2003-04-01. Accessed 2007-07-12
  3. Pepall, Jennifer. New Challenges for Chinas Urban Farms IDRC Report (1997a) 21.3.
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