CUNY Academic Commons | Lucia Green-Weiskel | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/luciagw/activity/ Activity feed for Lucia Green-Weiskel. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1f674a4056b7abb92e4e627b669986a4 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=279 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:16:23 -0400 Thumbnail

 originally published at TheNation.com here:

Why Obama’s Challenge to China on Climate Change Is Too Little, Too Late

Beijing’s carbon-reduction targets are already […]

]]> bf42af386e467c9cdaea97cd3aaedf35 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=272 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:02:38 -0400 Lucia Green-Weiskel_CV_Sept2014

]]> c9a249dd302ea0584b03c935bfaf1c68 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/01/22/chinas-green-leap-backward-the-nation/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:16:02 -0500 ThumbnailOriginally published in the 4 Feb 2013 edition of The Nation here
China’s Green Leap Backward
Lucia Green-Weiskel | January 16, 2013

Reuters/Jason Lee

Signaling China’s ambition to be the world’s leader in […]

]]> 6df346bc96a568a813e2eb486ff58f5b Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/18/a-trip-to-china-and-back-in-time/ Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:12:32 -0500 Thumbnail[My last blog for Peter Beinart’s class]

My first trip to China was almost ten years ago. I boarded a plane for a flight that would take over 24 hours to get me from Boston to Shanghai with a layover in […]

]]> 815109f643f2a0e9944f3788562c5500 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/12/03/c-plus-chinas-civil-society-groups-stand-up-and-get-counted-in-durban/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:38:43 -0500 ThumbnailOriginally published by Huffington Post here. With greenhouse gas emissions hitting record levels and passing climate scientist’s worst predictions , a new group of Chinese activists, traditionally silenced by an authoritarian government, is making its voice heard at the United Nations climate talks, the COP17, which began this week in Durban, South Africa. China is the largest emitter of […]

]]> ba19aa88bb153d1227963535e50267f1 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/13/we-are-more-like-the-chinese-than-we-think/ Sat, 14 May 2011 03:48:54 -0400 I recently read a brilliant article by China correspondent Evan Osnos in the New Yorker about his experience joining a Chinese tour group on a trip to Europe . He describes a trip at blazing speed through five countries in ten days in which tourists were told to be vigilant about thieves and unnecessary engagement […]

]]> 1e9f9ee9196f68c46b197ba8bdeca58d Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/08/denying-climate-deniers/ Sun, 08 May 2011 14:56:24 -0400 ThumbnailMay 9, 2011 I have to admit I don’t spend much time thinking about the tedious war on science known as “climate change denial.” I find this contrarian bunch to be small-minded and senseless and mostly just boring because without any scientific credentials they are trying to make a scientific argument (that climate change doesn’t exist […]

]]> 246f8d0b6afbd79593beb310285e189a Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/01/china-rethinks-nuclear-power/ Sun, 01 May 2011 22:02:10 -0400 First published in The Nation here. Lucia Green-Weiskel | April 21, 2011 In the wake of the partial meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant in Japan, China announced it would shelve plans for vast expansion of its nuclear power capacity, at least temporarily, until more stringent safety checks are performed. Construction will eventually resume, but with […]

]]> 19afddeb50ddbb5751e6b497a961893b Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/01/book-review-losing-our-cool-uncomfortable-truths-about-our-air-conditioned-world-and-finding-n Sun, 01 May 2011 21:57:54 -0400 ThumbnailLosing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) By Stan Cox New Press, 2010 272 pages, $24.95 (Hardcover) Available on Amazon here and Google books here Reviewed by Lucia Green-Weiskel It’s not an obvious choice to read a book about air conditioning. Yet, without getting much attention, climate control […]

]]> 396b9407dddd63b400cd82a728e62fca Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/10/more-on-electric-vehicles/ Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:58:47 -0400 ThumbnailMore on Electric Vehicles I was tempted this week to write about Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist who was detained while traveling to Hong Kong last week. Or Bob Dylan—who performed last week to a Beijing audience, the first notable Western musician to be given the stage in Beijing since Bjork angered authorities in Shanghai when she called […]

]]> 23824fa7ca41a850ac03f36e21e828cd Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/04/01/calling-china/ Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:08:12 -0400 I work for a Chinese NGO. But in that capacity I am frequently asked to contribute analysis and even news stories to US-based publications like The Nation, Huffington Post and Grist, for which I write regularly. This means that every once in a while I suddenly have to take off my NGO advocacy hat and […]

]]> eaf78499f0dc905cb848166ead603282 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/18/electric-vehicles-where-do-the-emissions-go/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:30:40 -0400 Both the US and China have pledged to put 1 million electric vehicles on the road in the next decade (see here and here). But are electric vehicles really better for the environment? There is a common misconception that electric vehicles are carbon-neutral and that their impact on the environment is as non-offensive as the quiet sound of […]

]]> 3aaac7bad4e2a755dfe0fcde9ccd8897 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/03/12/cold-war-rhetoric-alive-and-well/ Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:24:02 -0500 Last week John McCain, in a joint appearance with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said that the US and Australia should work together to rein in China. “They have been acting very assertively in the region,” he said. “The fact is they are a rising power and they are a military power.” “Now that doesn’t mean […]

]]> 6ed682371097d2b167eb746e9dcad63f Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/27/revolution-in-china/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:48:44 -0500 In the last few weeks I have felt an odd dark and complicated cloud pass over me. At the same time, many of my Sino-file friends have fallen silent, a sharp change for the usual gregarious bunch who are known for their ability to suddenly launch into their specific version of the China-rising theory without […]

]]> 423e0a91c469939236be44bbf85f3c84 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/13/energy-and-environment-china%e2%80%99s-year-of-the-tiger-in-numbers/ Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:42:21 -0500 ThumbnailBy Lucia Green-Weiskel As China bids farewell to the Year of the Tiger and rings in the Year of the Rabbit this month many Americans are wondering: Is China eclipsing the US and taking over as the world’s new superpower? In last year’s midterm election, 29 candidates (from both parties) were afraid that was the case. Each one […]

]]> 402ded8da7c6da090f7c23df612f28ae Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/02/how-business-interests-hijakced-us-china-relations/ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:55:01 -0500 ThumbnailBy Lucia Green-Weiskel and Tina Gerhardt Originally Published in the Huffington Post The most concrete goods delivered by last week’s bilateral state summit between President Obama and China’s President Hu Jintao came not from heads of state but from CEOs, as US and China-based businesses signed a deal through which China agreed to buy $45 billion worth of […]

]]> 0551fe8208f0bd2863c3fc217169a34e Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/02/sputnik-moment/ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:47:58 -0500 By Lucia Green-Weiskel and Tina Gerhardt Originally Published on Alternet In China, a race toward self-reliance and clean energy technology is certainly on, but the U.S. still needs to make some key changes if it wants to compete. Next week, January 19 to 21, President Obama will host Chinese President Hu Jintao for their first bilateral summit this […]

]]> f0a66e624949cf2c1f71229612003177 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/10/climate-clash-in-cancun/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:34:27 -0500 originally published in The Nation here. Lucia Green-Weiskel | December 16, 2010 Cancún Just after 3 am on the last day of the UN climate change conference, exhausted negotiators from 193 countries signed an agreement that was modest and reflected elements of desperation (the one country refusing to sign, Bolivia, decried what it called “a hollow and false victory” that […]

]]> b128bd62a8e64202790c7663e10d62f4 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/10/jan-8th-2010-interview-on-behind-the-news/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:26:56 -0500 Check out my half-hour interview on Doug Henwood’s show Behind the News. Click here to stream or download podcast.

]]> a189de03e4c6691714fce8495dca5a76 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/10/obama-admin-takes-aim-at-china%e2%80%99s-renewable-energy-subsidies/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:25:15 -0500 Recent article in Grist co-authored with Tina Gerhardt see original post here Last week, in a move that pits American labor against China’s green-technology industry, the Obama administration filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over China’s wind-power subsidies. The U.S. move challenges China’s rapid growth in the renewable-energy market, and also throws the weight of the administration behind […]

]]> d0b0d63c6de731a59c4ebdf5c9e1cd1e Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/11/cop-16-events/ Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:39:55 -0500 I haven’t written in a while because I have been at the United Nations climate conference — the COP16 — in Cancun. The conference closed last night with a modest deal reached. Although many are viewing the fact that a deal was reached as a success, it appears  at first glance that the terms of […]

]]> 16be8a4056d0542582f62adaf13dc743 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/21/obama%e2%80%99s-china-policy/ Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:55:04 -0500 As I indicated in an earlier blog, most US president enter office with one view of China and leave with an entirely different perspective. Despite being the only president in history to visit China in his first year in office, Obama, so far, seems to be charting a different course, which is to sustain relatively bad […]

]]> e86a565b7bd2f800f1132cf95d416530 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/01/china-bashing-in-the-us-mid-term-election/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:19:10 -0400 In a particularly divided and hostile mid-term election, China-bashing is one of the only political issues that has enjoyed genuine bi-partisan support . According to the New York Times : “China is emerging as a bogeyman… with candidates across the American political spectrum seizing on anxieties about the country’s growing economic might to pummel each other on trade, […]

]]> c23b69feb645b5f6035f16e13b794b2a Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/24/preserving-public-transportation/ Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:25:52 -0400 When I tell people I am an environmentalist, a common first response is to talk technology: blow-your-mind apps for electric cars , solar panel-paved highways , straddle buses and bullet trains . But the essential technological logic we need to save the planet has been with us since human beings learned how to cooperate: public transportation.  Unglamorous as it may be, the […]

]]> 7a885678eee10f3f08ce24e70954bf68 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/16/liu-xiabo%e2%80%99s-peace-prize-is-deserved-but-will-not-bring-peace/ Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:25:01 -0400 By Lucia Green-Weiskel This year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s life story is powerful and compelling and deserve to be celebrated. Liu had a front row seat to recent history’s most grim and hopeful moments. As a young boy he grew up during the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s failed economic project based on […]

]]> a25244a10cd5e22fe346e3d4c1cdd5e5 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/14/china-to-the-us-%e2%80%98ignorant%e2%80%99-in-copenhagen-and-an-ignorant-%e2%80%98pig%e2%80%99 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:40:23 -0400 By Lucia Green-Weiskel The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held an intersessional meeting in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin last week. (Note: Although I am listed as both attending and hosting an event in Tianjin, I did not attend the conference (I had class) and wrote this based on other people’s reporting and the UNFCCC […]

]]> ad178554ff9ae8062bdc4cce8cc39b81 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/06/obama-what-about-climate-change/ Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:30:14 -0400 By Lucia Green-Weiskel In the last couple of months, it has become clear that climate change, one of the central issues of President Obama campaign in 2008, has been all but forgotten. Over the summer, despite a lot of talk that lead us to believe the opposite, we were told that there would be no climate […]

]]> 8720193f87341edb7f7cb5884e931dc9 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/05/presidents-and-precedents/ Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:05:54 -0400 Oct 5 Note: I posted this two weeks ago on Peter Beinart’s Writing Politics class blog. UPDATE: Obama has decided to put solar panels on the White House. See here. Sept 25th, 2010 by Lucia Green-Weiskel This week, as I roamed the halls of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting , I heard a rumor that Bill Clinton has adopted […]

]]> b3c3b3a5efc9bdcbd4067c5646cf93ef Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/04/in-defense-of-china%e2%80%99s-green-technology-subsidies/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:04:55 -0400 By Lucia Green-Weiskel In the first week of September, the Steelworkers Union filed a complaint to the US Trade Representative against China for subsidizing its renewable energy industry in a way that is illegal according to the World Trade Organization. The complaint is 5,800 pages long (or 80 moving boxes in printed form) and includes Chinese violations […]

]]> 6a8f912dc2ee6ef6950ee11467cab598 Lucia Green-Weiskel wrote a new post on the site 同床异梦 Same Bed, Different Dreams http://luciagreenweiskel.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/04/the-electric-car-boutique/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:00:09 -0400 by Lucia Green-Weiskel An artist friend of mine was visiting from out of town last week. I took her to the Chelsea art galleries – our ritual when we have time together in New York. Some of the art demonstrated clear talent and skill, other galleries I found clearly provocative and obscure. I was getting […]

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