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Posted on:April 19, 2014December 16, 2019Blog My Work

Small Factories, Big Problems — Climate Confidential

My first story for Climate Confidential looks at why it’s so hard to enforce environmental regulations at small factories and what can be done about.

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Posted on:December 16, 2013April 11, 2014My Work

How Fixed-Gear Bikes Made Cycling Cool in China — The Atlantic

In a country where two-wheelers once symbolized backwardness and poverty, Ines Brunn’s hip, eco-friendly devices have become a smash hit.

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Posted on:July 2, 2013April 11, 2014My Work

Made in China 2.0 — Selamta

A handful of “maker spaces” are bringing creative energy to the Chinese economy.

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Posted on:February 14, 2013December 16, 2019My Work

China’s Last Wild River — Outside

Travis Winn, a 29-year-old river guide based in Kunming, is working to bring people from China’s growing cities out to see the last remaining wild river in the country and, in doing so, martial their support for protecting it from a series of proposed dams

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Posted on:January 30, 2013December 16, 2019My Work

Inventor’s Latest Project: A Cleantech Superlab — BusinessWeek

Necessity is the mother of invention, and Shawn Frayne, a serial inventor who cut his teeth designing for the developing world at MIT’s D-Lab program, is putting that hypothesis to the test through an emerging network of labs, known as the Ocean Invention Network.

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Posted on:November 8, 2012January 21, 2013Travel

Dongbei is delicious

That’s usually the first question out of friends’ mouths when get a chance to catch up with friends back home. One of the great discoveries I’ve made here has been Dongbei cuisine.

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Posted on:November 5, 2012November 20, 2012Travel

Weekend Trip: Trains, secret bunkers, and a nuclear power plant

U and I took the high-speed train to Shaoguan this weekend. We were heading for Danxiashan, a national park with beautiful rock formations and attractive fog, hoping to get out of the city for a bit and do some hiking. But a last-minute decision set us off on a totally different adventure.

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Posted on:November 2, 2012November 13, 2012Blog Travel

Old movies and the Internet

While I’m here in China, I’m cut off from my usual sources of legal streamed content. Thank goodness! I’ve rediscovered the amazingness of The Internet and the public domain.

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Posted on:October 28, 2012September 10, 2013Travel

Zhejiang: Observations

I visited China’s Zhejiang province last week, a region known for its entrepreneurial-driven economic success.

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