Note: The following article was taken from China Daily. If you compare modern photographs of colleges in the English university city of Oxford, with those taken little more than 50 years ago, you will instantly notice a remarkable difference. Today the picturesque sandstone buildings are a near pristine golden yellow in color, but, before the passing of the Clean Air Act in the UK in 1956, they were more or less uniformly black. Years of choking fumes from open fireplaces in

Note: The following post was taken from China Daily. Peggy Liu said she believes the world may have only five years to avert an environmental disaster. The internationally renowned environmental champion, who now heads a joint Sino-American clean energy body, said that time is running out fast. "The scary thing is that five years is just the blink of an eye in energy terms. Two years ago, we perhaps thought we had 10 years," she said in an interview in Beijing last week. Liu'

Today marks the start of the Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) China Energy Forum in Beijing, which gathers 300 delegates from around the world in sectors ranging from government to industry to NGOs. JUCCCE Chairwoman Peggy Liu called on participating top executives and leaders to work closely together to provide more turnkey solutions for key people in China who are impacting the world with each decision they make. Representatives from the US Department of