]> http://www.greenedia.com/popular/articles/green-asia Green Asia - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/78415?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Posted by Sakyo onboard the EsperanzaMany people in Japan oppose our government s whaling programme, and we have seen a dramatic increase in traffic to our website recently. Online visitors are also signing a petition asking the government minister... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:07:22 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/78415?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78319?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Nikkei. Japan's domestic auto market is growing increasingly polarized, with drivers opting for either minicars or luxury cars.Minicars cars with engines 660cc and smaller accounted for 35.9% of all cars sold in 2007, marking a new high for the f... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:20:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/78319?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/78276?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Posted by Irene onboard the EsperanzaDue to the misquoting in a newspaper, we keep getting questions about how we managed to find the fleet by following a trail of krill . However impressive that would be, krill had absolutely nothing to do with i... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:54:55 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/78276?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77857?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Etc., Manufacturing/Plants, Carbon Offset, Carbon CaptureIn 2008, if your factories aren't the cleanest in the world, you can always compensate with some kind of carbon-balancing intervention to fix things. Such is the case of tiremaker ... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:58:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/77857?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77647?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Usually in the bike vs car wars, the guy on the bike loses; here are two cases where the result was different. A woman was driving her Buick (illegally) through Nankai University in China, and bumped into a cyclist, which scratched her car. She got ... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:21:23 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77647?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77388?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Shanghai Daily. Mitsubishi Motors and Hunan Changfeng Motors are setting up a venture to meet increasing demand for SUVs in China. The venture will initially make as many as 100,000 sedans and SUVs a year. This production may eventually double. Mitsu... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:05:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/77388?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/77328?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Posted by Irene onboard the EsperanzaThe Japanese government's whaling factory ship has now turned south, seemingly heading back towards the whaling grounds. The fleet can't hunt without the Nisshin Maru. We intend to take non-violent action in order... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:32:25 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/77328?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77191?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Sanyo has built an ark for the solar century an impressive 630 kW solar-collecting building that boasts over 5,000 solar panels and kicks off over 500,000 kWh of energy per year. Even more outstanding is the fact that most of the monocrystalline ... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:00:12 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77191?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76950?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Cop ticketing kid in Japan. photo credit blasdelfControversy rages whenever we post about headphones and helmets on bikes, but in Japan it won't be open to discussion; new cycling rules come into force this spring that ban cyclists from from holding ... Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:57:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76950?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76824?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Chrysler LLC and Nissan Motor Co. announced an agreement for Nissan to supply Chrysler with a new car for limited distribution in South America. Based on the Nissan Versa sedan, the new car will be supplied to Chrysler on an Original Equipment Manufa... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:37:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76824?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76877?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 For the past half-century, the Egyptian government has sought to fend off the country's growing desertification and population crunch by aggressively reclaiming large portions of its arid landscape - adopting a strategy very similar to that seen in... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76877?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Two years ago, I wrote: By January 1, 2016 more than one major U.S. city will have a fleet (more than 10) of public vehicles--buses, or taxis, or garbage collection or police or whatever--powered by hydrogen. In my prediction, I mentioned 3 hurdles t... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:11:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76571?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 And I'm not talking about Bill Parcells (Anglers seek sushi jackpot):The giant bluefin typically weighs more than 300 pounds and stretches 8 feet from nose to tail. Many are much larger....To land a bluefin is to hit a sushi jackpot. Within hours of ... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/76571?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76572?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 The Nikkei reports that Asahi Kasei Corp., Showa Denko KK and other Japanese companies are moving to increase production of materials used in hybrid vehicle components, such as batteries and motors, on expectations that the global market will grow sh... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:20:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76572?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76615?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Participants in the World Naked Bike ride will not be pleased to hear this, but there may be drawbacks to the beloved TreeHugging pastime known as cycling, especially if you are male. According to an interview with urologist Dr Irwin Goldstein in Bic... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:30:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76615?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76532?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Hybrid, GMDuring his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner announced that the 1,000th transit bus equipped the the GM-Allison Two-Mode system would delivered this month and it was coming to Las Vegas. Las Veg... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:03:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76532?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Green Daily, JapanIf you thought that easy bike renting was a thing just for Europeans, change your mind. A Japanese company called Bike Off Co. started a free bicycle rental service for college studen... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:28:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76463?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 For full-year 2007, Ford Motor Company retail sales in China totaled 216,324 units, a 30% on increase that outpaced the overall auto industry. Ford's strong performance in China in 2007 was highlighted by strong sales of the Ford Focus and the intr... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:25:48 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76463?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76431?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 The notice that appeared on the website of China's State Council yesterday came as a welcome surprise: Starting in June, all shops will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags. Meanwhile, super-thin bags have been banned. Consumers are being ask... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:00:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76431?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/76342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 By Junichi Sato, oceans project leader in JapanOp-ed published in the Herald Sun: Truth hits homeLate last month, Japan dropped humpback whales from its so-called scientific whaling program for this year and next.It was front page and prime time n... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:53:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/76342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76173?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Ford Motor Company plans to invest US$500 million to expand its India operations, reaffirming its commitment to developing and implementing an aggressive growth strategy in the country. The new investment will fund several new initiatives, including ... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:48:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76173?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76207?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: MPG, Lightweight, ChinaThe video above is a 20-minute talk by Amory Lovins, a leading green thinker. Three minutes into the video, Amory says his friends in Detroit say you can import your super-efficient Chinese car in a decade. I w... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:09:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76207?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76209?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, ChinaIsrael is the quiet dark horse of the new global electric car market. Maybe. Following hopeful EV announcements late last year from Project Better Place and Israel Corp (both tied to Shai Agassi), AME Info reported recen... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:39:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76209?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76175?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Verenium Corporation, a developer of cellulosic ethanol and high-performance specialty enzymes, achieved an important technical milestone associated with a research program with Syngenta AG. (Earlier post.)As a result of this achievement, Verenium (a... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:08:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/76175?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76202?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Jeremy might want us to call it the year of the frog, but when the calendar gets around to 7 February 2008 we'll actually be in the Chinese Year of the Earth Rat, which does sound rather apt. But the United Nations have other plans. A few months back... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:43:32 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76202?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, JapanA Denso factory in Anjo, Japan that makes parts for hybrid vehicles (and other components) will be expanded by 25 percent (by 1.2 million square feet) in the near future. Denso will spend around 6 billi... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:34:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/76076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75967?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: On Two Wheels, Green DailyI've been a biker ever since my college days. I've used a bike to commute through Michigan (and northern Japanese) winters, hot times in Georgia and up steep residential streets in Hawai'i. But I've never biked ... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75967?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75931?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, GMThe Wall Street Journal is not kind to GM's plans for the Volt electric car in the article headlined Could GM's Salvation Be Stuff of Science Fiction? After calling a driver-less car GM is showing off at CES science fictio... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:10:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75931?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75914?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 The Nikkei reports that the Japanese government plans to develop a low-cost production process for cellulosic bioethanol derived from rice straw, and as early as fiscal 2009 to offer the know-how to other Asian rice-producing countries.Japan is hopin... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75914?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75987?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd., an established manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules and ingots in China, recently announced the signing of three contracts for sale and delivery of wafers totaling $230 million over a seven-year period w... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75987?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75832?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 People's Daily. China will complete the construction of its National Highway Trunk System comprising five north-south highway trunk roads and seven east-west trunk roads this year. The country will also build eight inter-provincial roads this yea... Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:03:05 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75832?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75839?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, ChinaWJRT, a local news station, did a report about the Chinese Smart electric car clone called FlyBo recently. The WNEM local news report, we told you about earlier said it was not recommended for Winter use. Seems the reaso... Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:43:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75839?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 By Sarah K. BurkhalterSays Next Energy News: Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change e... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:15:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75654?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 California and 15 other states returned fire in the brewing war with the White House over California's Clean Car Act. On December 19th, Stephen L. Johnson, Bush's man in charge of the EPA, explained that th... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:03:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75654?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75720?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Disposable, single-serving bowls of noodles don't fit many (okay, any) TreeHugger values of minimizing packaging waste or resource efficiency. The ubiquitous Cup Noodles, dietary staple of many a college student and lunch on the go, have taken a gr... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:52:16 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75720?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75506?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Xinhua. China had 159.8 million motor vehicles by the end of 2007, up 10.02% percent from 2006, according to China' Ministry of Public Security. By the end of 2007, China also had 164 million drivers, up 9.17% from 2006.Automobiles and motorcycles ac... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:27:17 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75506?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75527?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Manufacturing/Plants, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, ChinaThere is a word in Chinese, mianzi, which could be translated as shame or fear of being ashamed and which is considered an important concept in Chin... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:18:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75527?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/75525?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 As part of a national program to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Japanese officials want 30% of residential households to be powered (at least in part) with solar energy by 2030. Fourteen million households will need to be fitted with solar panels to ... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:30:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/75525?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75519?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 It's one thing to have swarms of giant jellyfish or squids preying upon local commercial fish populations; it's quite another to have a huge swarm of crustaceans - tiny ones at that - threatening to destroy an entire island. The uninhabited island of... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75519?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75494?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Daniel Weiss, Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress, offers his thoughts here:The $100 barrier was broken due to the same factors that lead to $97-a-barrel price levels this past Thanksgiving week. First, world demand conti... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:11:05 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75494?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, Toyota During his New Year's Speech, Toyota's CEO Katsuaki Watanabe announced some highlights about the future plans of his company. The most spectacular is the one we used as a headline: Each To... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75523?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Oliver Munday for the New York Times32 -- the average rate of higher consumption in the first world, when compared to the developing world. The average rate at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and g... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:23:14 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75523?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75472?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Etc., Green CultureJared Diamond, the author of the two very interesting books Guns, Germs and Steel and, more recently, Collapse , has an interesting column in yesterday's New York Times. By his estimation, individuals in the develop... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:56:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75472?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75419?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 The Boston Globe has two climate-related books on their list of the year's most-expected books:Turning to nonfiction, the year will bring a couple of books on the worrisome topic of global warming - The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise an... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:43:06 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/75419?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/75418?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 University of Louisville's Keith Mountain is the new state geographer.That's him on the right, a few years ago, with engineer Bruce Koci, using an ice-coring drill on the summit of The Dunde Ice Cap in central China, elevation 21,000 feet above sea l... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:14:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/75418?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75426?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, ChinaDongfeng, one of the largest Chinese manufacturers (with a range of models that include some Citro ns), has announced that is investigating hydrous ethanol. The development does not only mean that they will adap... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:12:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75426?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75404?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Japanese industry analysts are projecting that China's automobile market is likely to top the 10 million mark in 2008, up from an estimated 8.5 million units in 2007. Sales were 3.25 million units in 2002.Of the total forecast for 2008, new vehicle s... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:14:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75404?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75428?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Filed under: Hydrogen, BMW, AsiaIf you wanted to see more footage of the BMW Hydrogen 7, here's a nice video showing it on Hong Kong's old runway (Kai Tak). An editor from the Southern China Morning Post was taken for a ride and got a small lesson on... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/autobloggreen/75428?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75327?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 By Tom PhilpottEdible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web and off.I have to admit, when I think of vegan fare, I first picture little lumps of soy curd, swimming in a brown pool of Bragg's Liquid Ami... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:06:57 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75327?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/75286?rsstype=populararticles&cid=70 Bloomberg. Crude oil prices reached a record $100 a barrel in New York today. Prices settled at $99.62, a record high close.Closing prices for NYMEX light crude. Click to enlarge.Oil's gain, extending last year's 57 percent rally, was boosted by fore... 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