Circle of Blue’s senior editor reports from the field, literally, as he ends his second week in the rice paddies of rural China.
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Circle of Blue’s senior editor starts his second of three weeks reporting in the field from China, where new infrastructure over the next five years will give a big boost to farming in a northeastern province.
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Circle of Blue’s senior editor wraps up his first of three weeks reporting in the field from China, finding a wealth of promise in fields of golden wheat.
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Circle of Blue’s senior editor will be filing reports from China for the next three weeks. See what he has to say about Beijing’s Blues Festival and a beautiful blue-sky day.
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Push-back on the transportation of tar sands equipment through a wilderness corridor reflects civic resistance to North American fossil fuel boom.
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In Ohio, Circle of Blue’s senior editor finds mineral leases are being negotiated by an attorney representing the landowners.
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With the price of natural gas falling thanks to innovating drilling solutions in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, investments in water-sipping energy models like wind and solar have dried up.
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In the era of deficit and disinvestment, water-intensive fossil fuel production is overwhelming the water-sipping clean energy sector.
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Canadian and American advocates join to promote big oversight idea of the “commons.”
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A new community on the Yangtze River has, so far, been more successful at attracting ducks than people. But city officials have their sights set high for Lingang Port City, which they say could be home to nearly a million people by 2050. Cleaner water will be a big help.
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An energy company has plans to withdraw water from the Ohio River, the potential site for a coal-to-liquid fuels conversion plant, which would be the first of its kind in the United States and the sixth in the world. Though it will bring jobs to the region, the proposal is facing strong opposition from environmental groups.
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The cords of energy demand and water supply are tightening around the world’s two largest economies.
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The Yellow River Basin is the center of a contest over water, energy, and agriculture.
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Though coal-to-liquids has been suspended due to water scarcity, the process uses 50 percent less water per unit of end product compared with coal-to-chemicals processes which have been given the go-ahead in hopes of slowing petroleum imports.
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Will momentum for runaway development be too powerful to restrain?
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Clean alternatives help, but not nearly enough, to loosen energy-water choke point
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An escalating confrontation over resources; a confrontation with global implications.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum present at 17 events in 4 cities over 16 days.