Today I was reading Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of stories which owes its title to this great quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Custom-House: Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Sat, Aug 15 2009
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| 30 Apr 08 |
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Earthday in China ~Green The Olympics Green The Earth~ »
YouTube video In China Ma'Anshan we planted trees.
This event was for supporting the Green Olympics and cerebrating "Earth Day"
It was very great and everybody were happy through planting trees. |
| 22 Apr 09 |
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Scrap Breaks for Earth Day » Shanghai Scrap Almost forgot it was Earth Day. So in honor of Earth, please allow me to send you in the direction of last year’s good news Earth Day post concerning a very low-tech green solution to a serious Chinese environmental problem. I am, of course,... |
| 31 Dec 08 |
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Kipling and hi-stories. » Granite Studio Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling (born December 30, 1865). Like most people these days, I’m not wild about Kipling’s colonialist baggage, but I do like this quote: “If history were told in the form of stories it would never be... |
| 23 Apr 08 |
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Green Global Voices on Earth Day 2008 » Global Voices Bloggers celebrated Earth Day by posting their thoughts on what the day means, others did a roundup of articles, some shared reading lists and others mused about climate change. In this brief roundup we get a glimpse of these blogger's views on Earth... |
| 17 Sep 09 |
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Today's Links: Planning Shanghai with Google Earth, Asia banks flourish, and Chinese students finally free to look at porn » Shanghaiist Google Earth Used By Netizens To Discuss Urban Planning [chinaSMACK] "For those of you who lived in or been to any major city in China, you must have at one point gotten stuck for hours during the morning commute or being lost within the maze of side... |
| 15 Jul 09 |
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Yue Fei - A Real Chinese Hero » China Expat A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. - Nathaniel Hawthorne It's probably for the best that today's heroes are spandex-clad cyclists, or TV characters with superhuman abil... |
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