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Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-25

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook , Twitter and Pinterest . Soaring to sinking: How building up is bringing Shanghai down ... Read more >

Good, bad and the ugly: Eastern Chinese cities ranked by air quality

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-25

It's no news that China's air pollution is bad. In fact if this NASA map of PM2.5 levels is anything to go by, Eastern China has it the worst in the entire world. But how come the air pollution in some Chinese cities is simply bad... Read more >

Vegetables in major HK supermarkets turn up with toxic pesticides

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-23

Last week Greenpeace campaigners in Hong Kong published testing results from some of Hong Kong's biggest supermarkets and found illegal pesticides and mixed pesticide use on many fresh produce samples. With Mainland China a major... Read more >

From Cyberport to "Dataport" – Hong Kong missing a renewable 'Cloud'

Blog entry by Yeung Man-Yau | 2012-05-22

From mainland's pregnant mothers to waste management policy, Chief executive-elect Mr C.Y. Leung has strived hard to make changes in controversies that have garnered much attention by the public. Yet, whether or not he is a truly... Read more >

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy iCloud

Blog entry by Gary Cook | 2012-05-21

Last week, after hundreds of thousands of Apple customers and Greenpeace supporters asked the company to use clean energy instead of dirty coal, it announced a significant investment in local renewable energy to power its data center... Read more >

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-18

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook , Twitter and Pinterest . China's radical blue-sky measures during the 2008 Olympics... Read more >

Are China's most toxic industries being exported out to the countryside?

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-16

Recently an in-depth report from SBS Dateline  looked into China's toxic wastepiles, and featured the work of Greenpeace including an interview with our Head of Toxics, campaigner Ma Tianjie. The Chinese government claims it's... Read more >

Want to eat organic in China? Here's how!

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-15

Last year China Daily reported on a farmer in Yunnan who admitted that he would never dare to eat the vegetables he sells, due to the amounts of chemicals pesticides and fertilizers used on them. Instead he grows a separate... Read more >

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-11

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook , Twitter and Pinterest . The dirty truth about water quality . (Caixin) Living with... Read more >

Star in our next video

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2012-05-11

Yup, that's a photo of me in the midst of a very staticy-hair day in Beijing, and me slumming it with some nuke cans in our Hong Kong office. I've uploaded these to Instagram as part of Greenpeace's new video for our Detox campaign . Read more >

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