希望在每一个人
希望在每一个的自觉认识和行动
哥本哈根会议过后,市场的作用力,尤其是消费者在其中的影响,是否能帮助解决全球变暖?约翰•艾尔金顿在这里对各国的承诺和“绿色”消费主义的陷阱进行了讨论。
中国的绿色脉搏到云南省了解当地人利用生物能源(沼气)的情况。
China's Green Beat investigates a project providing cleaner alternatives to wood burning for cooking and heating.
全世界的老百姓都在为环境问题找解决办法,想了解如何能减少自己对地球的影响。很多人觉得,解决办法在于我们自己。“酷冷生活”探讨消费者影响力、道德购物、环保设计、可持续消费等话题。 请和我们一起来探讨这些话题,发表您的高见。
All over the world, ordinary people are seeking solutions to environmental problems and asking how they can reduce their own impact on the earth. Many feel that solutions lie in our hands and in our pockets. Cooler Living talks about consumer power, ethical shopping, eco-design, sustainable consumption and more. Join us in exploring and debating what it all means.
January 07, 2010 03:31
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2010年1月6日8:59
一个有用的工具。
然而,鉴于中国不愿对其温室气体排放监测、报告和核查透明化,中国产品上的条形码是否可信则是个疑问。
如果中国消费者能提倡产品的条形码系统会是件很好的事。但等待中国的出口市场自愿要求提供这些信息,看起来还要很长一段时间
不过,如果能让条码变成强制性的(鉴于气候变化的紧迫性和严重性),中国将不得不为了提高竞争力而作出调整。
Posted in reply to 消费拯救气候?
January 06, 2010 08:59
A useful gadget.
However, given China's reluctance to be transparent concerning Monitoring Reporting and Verification over greenhouse gas emissions, will bar codes on products supplied from China be credible?
It would be good if consumers in China led the way in demanding credible information on products through bar code systems. Waiting for consumers in China's export markets voluntarily to demand such information is likely to take too much time.
However, if as should be the case, such bar coding were mandatory (reflecting the urgency and seriousness of climate change), China would have to adjust in order to compete.
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2010年1月5日4:56
科学和技术让人们过度自信而且大大提升了平均信息量,因此全球变暖也是不可逆转的。此外,政治和政治家们战胜了科学和科学家。 《2012》不仅仅是一部电影,而相当于一个警告。因为人们越来越不关心自己的命运,地球的反应也就愈发激烈了。
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January 05, 2010 04:56
Global warming is irreversible because the advance of science and technology help people overenjoy themselves and the advance of science and technology increase the rate of entropy rise. what is more is politics and politicians prevail over science and scientist. The film of 2012 is a warning rather than a film. The earth is getting furious because people don't care its fate.
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2010年1月5日3:32
一个显而易见的现象就是消费者或公民个人付出的努力往往要比生产者和政府官员付出的多,改善气候条件是一个巨大的行动链条,是人类历史上为生存而共同努力的最大行动,但又是最难达成共识和分担责任的行动。
如果不能改变别人那么先改变自己,从自己做起……
Posted in reply to 消费拯救气候?
January 05, 2010 03:32
It is common for consumers or citizens to invest more effort than producers and government officials. Improving climate conditions is a huge operation with many connected parts; it requires the most cooperation for the survival of humanity in history. But this issue is also one of history’s most difficult issues on which to reach a consensus and for which to share responsibility. If you can’t change others then change yourself first. Change starts with you…
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2010年1月4日4:54
---(1)降污减排碳交易(官方途径)
---(2)降温保水人类共行动(民间力量)迫在眉睫刻不容缓!······
---温差!足以证明人类应对气候变暖---生存之道!---重启【地球新工程】······
民间气候研究者
Posted in reply to 见证“停止气候变化”行动
January 04, 2010 04:54
(1) Reduce pollution and reduce carbon related industry (official channel)
(2) Reduce the warming and protect water, humanity moves together (the power of the people)
This is extremely urgent….the change in temperature is enough proof to show that humans created climate change. Survival is the way. Restart “Earth’s New Engineering Project”
Popular climate researcher
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2010年1月1日16:39
什么时候各个国家不再把发展经济作为第一要务,这个世界才有希望。
传统中国曾经做到,也能够做到,减缓甚至停滞经济发展的步伐。可西方国家根本做不到,因为那有违他们的基本价值观:民主和自由。西方文化的基本价值观是有问题的,它承认、保护且鼓励贪婪。近年来中国对环境的危害,完全是在西方压力之下接受了西方价值观的恶果。
你会说现代中国为什么不能停滞经济发展,为什么非要和西方国家比贪婪?羡慕奢侈?你不是一样可耻?可问题是,美国印第安人曾经尊重自然,结果被几乎消灭掉;中国曾经信奉温良恭俭让,被八国联军入侵;毛泽东时代可谓对地球污染极少,可是被整个西方世界斥为不人道,被物质世界诱惑。这个世界只有一个混账逻辑在主宰:有责任的人终将被主流社会鄙视与唾弃,温良恭俭让的国家终将被不负责任的国家野蛮侵略甚至消灭。
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January 01, 2010 16:39
There will be a slice of hope for the whole globe only when all the countries stop taking economic development as their main priority.
However, what did ancient China ever do and will do to slow down, even to stop the development of national economy, is impossible for Western countries to accept. This contradicts Western countries basic values of espousing democracy and freedom. The basic values of the Western world are not flawless as it accepts and protects--even encourages-- the sense of greed. The horrible damage to China’s environment in recent years is the result of the evil consequences of taking Western values under the pressure from Western countries.
You may ask, why couldn’t China just slow down its economic development for the sake of protecting the environment? Why did China keep following the trend of seeking greediness and benefits? In this way, isn’t China hypocritical as well? The fact remains, nevertheless, those Indians who used to be the original inhabitants of North America and held nature in awe were butchered to extinguishment. However, those temperate, kind, courteous, restrainable, and generous Chinese people suffered the brutal invasion of the Eight Power Allied Force; the era of Mao Zedong, which pollution hardly existed, was blamed for violating human rights. In other words, the whole world is driven by a damn logic that the people full of sense of responsibility will finally be discarded by the mainstream of modern society, and the countries being gentle and kind will finally be wiped off the map.
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2010年1月1日4:11
提高人民生活水平,发展国家经济适应道理的话,就需要媒体刺激消费,激发全民消费欲望。明星机制就是最有效的策略之一。我们需要真正的反文化运动(counter culture)才能从根上解决环境问题。
Posted in reply to 什么是酷冷生活?
January 01, 2010 04:11
In order to improve people's living standards, according to the usual logical process for developing countries' economies, the media would need to help stimulate consumption, inciting mass desire to consume more. Leveraging on stars is one of the most effective promotion methods. We really need to have a counter-culture movement in order to solve the root of the environmental problems.
This comment was translated by Lin Hui-Yi
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2009年12月26日10:28
Posted in reply to 把世界刷白
December 26, 2009 10:28
It seems that we should not only paint the buildings and roads white, but things we have been used even clothes also should be white color. It would then be cold just simply by looking at them. And another problem is that white is apt to get dirty.
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2009年12月23日8:29
中国要实行殡葬改革,要既环保有科学。应该取火葬场,不要推行火葬,实行绿色土葬,不留坟堆,不留碑刻等一切人文痕迹。让人悄悄地来,静静的走,这不是更好吗?还应规定每个人的殡葬消费不得超过300元(人民币)。
Posted in reply to 绿色殡葬--虽死犹生
December 23, 2009 08:29
If China wants to carry out burial reforms, they should be both environmentally friendly and scientific. Crematoriums should be gotten rid of, cremation should not be encouraged. There should be green burials: no burial mound, no engraved tombstone or any other trace of humanity. Let people come quietly and go peacefully - isn't that a better way? There should be a regulation that expenses for each person's funeral must not exceed 300 yuan (RMB).
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2010年1月7日10:40
Such technololgy would be very beneficial
Would such bar codes have stopped the recent milk scandals in China?
Perhaps not, but they would certainly inhibit the dangerously unethical practices involved, and change the assessment of risks and rewards by those who would perpertrate such practice.
The technology might - initially - be prohibitively expensive for small producers. However, because the great majority of products traded are supplied by enterprises large enough to be obliged to adopt that technology, small producers are largely irrelevant.
Posted in reply to 消费拯救气候?
January 07, 2010 10:40
这种技术很有益
像这样的条形码技术能不能防止类似中国最近牛奶丑闻的发生?
或许不行,但他肯定可以抑制危险的不道德行为的发生。而对于行为,这种技术也让那些有可能触犯危机的人,再三衡量此类行为所造成的风险与回报。
或许起初,该技术因成本过于昂贵而不受小型生产者的欢迎。不过,由于交易产品绝大部分是由大型企业供给的,他们的重要性足以促成该技术的广泛应用,小商品生产者则可以暂时忽略。
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