Tag: China

  • This Week’s Rant

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    Howard Schnieder in the Washington Post posits that, with the fall of China’s superstar status, more rapid change in the relations between China and the US may be possible. It’s an informative piece that nevertheless leaves me in a sputtering, almost incoherent rage.  The author notes that “some members of Congress” still worry about  the…

  • The Truth About Organic Foods from China

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    The information provided by Dr. Josh Axe in his post  The Truth About Organic Foods from China is disturbing but not surprising.  There has been one scandal after another regarding the substandard quality of products imported from China.  Why should organic foods be any different? As long as shoddy standards, little regulation and rampant corruption exist,…

  • And you thought it was bad here

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    From Ally Bruschi’s article in The Daily Mail: Endless food scandals throughout the past few years have Chinese consumers growing suspicious and weary of their grocery store produce —enough so for more well-off families to begin seeking organic alternatives to their traditional foods. For example, Catherine Ho Wai-man and her family have stopped buying produce from…

  • Telecoupling – A Holistic Understanding of Sustainability

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    Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability highlights a recent study by  led by Jianguo “Jack” Liu, Michigan State University’s Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability: In the new issue of Ecology and Society, Liu, director of MSU’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), and his colleagues lay the groundwork to understand how an action…

  • Shadow Banking Poses Threat to China’s Economy

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    Frank Langfitt delves into how China’s new leaders are confronting  threats to their economy: Last week was a wild one for China’s economy. Interest rates on the loans that banks make to one another soared to alarming levels, and lending began to freeze up. Shanghai stocks nose-dived, taking Asian markets and the Dow, briefly, with…

  • How the earth heals itself after an earthquake

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    Becky Oskin writes a fascinating piece,  at Mother Nature Network, about how the earth heals itself after an earthquake: For the first time, scientists have watched the Earth heal itself after an earthquake. The process is similar to the body repairing a cut, researchers from China and the United States reported on June 27 in the journal…