Tokyo Heat
After some of the worst flooding in decades, Japan has experienced a punishing heatwave…
Filed underenvironment
Beijing Retrospective: 10 Years Later
2007 I landed in Beijing on January 29th, 2007 on my first trip to…
Quality of Life: Hong Kong vs Shenzhen
From mid 2008 to the end of 2010 I lived in Shenzhen before moving…
Wasteful Watsons Water
Bottled water has never been an environmentally friendly way of consuming our most precious…
Taking a DETOUR
The First Global Revolution?
I came across this fascinating diagram in a 1991 report titled ‘The First Global Revolution‘ from…
The Art of Living Comfortably
When I moved to China from London I took a large pay cut and…
Shenzhen Land Reclamation
Today I was looking for my apartment on Google Maps (like you do) since…
Every Coin Has Two Sides
People love to bash China over its human rights and environmental record which I…
Words ≠ Actions
Looking at the submitted designs in the “Love Your Earth” designboom competition, for artwork…