December 8, 2008
By: James Miller
By Mary Evelyn Tucker [caption id="attachment_102" align="alignright" width="209" caption="Pan Yue"] [/caption] In a world where eco-systems are unraveling and where water, soil, and species are rapidly diminishing, there are few places on Earth where environmental problems are of greater concern...
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December 5, 2008
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_141" align="alignleft" width="350" caption=""carry out family planning""][/caption] By James Miller I've been following Andrew Revkin's dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The tag-line of the blog is "Nine Billion People. One Planet" and is premised on the demographic...
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December 4, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller The image of China in the Western media is often that of a monolithic totalitarian state, run by a cabal of shady figures in Beijing whose decisions affect the lives of downtrodden millions. When I bring visitors to...
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December 1, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In October I was invited to participate in a symposium on International Perspectives on Nature and Culture organized by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I was on a panel responding to...
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By: James Miller
By James Miller I was very interested to read this article, published on the UN website, on Daoism as the “Way” for climate change action in China. The article was written by Olav Kyorven, an assistant secretary general of the UN...
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