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		<title>daoist religion and ecotourism: a visit to maoshan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May this year I had the opportunity to visit Maoshan (Mt. Mao) a Daoist mountain sacred to the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) tradition of Daoism that I studied in my most recent book. Located in Jiangsu province, it is about an hour&#8217;s bus ride south of Zhenjiang, a stop on the main high speed railway from Shanghai to Nanjing. I was interested to visit Maoshan not only because of my historical research, but because it was the site of the Maoshan declaration, which in 2008 committed China&#8217;s Daoist Association to a ten year program of ecological protection. The result of my visit is a mixed assessment of the possibilities and problems associated with the practical implementation of Daoism and ecology. I&#8217;ll be presenting the full details of my conclusions at the forthcoming SASASAAS conference at Furman University on September 24-25, but I&#8217;d like to present some key findings now. First of all, the encounter between Daoism  and Ecology has to be understood from the perspective of China&#8217;s engagement with modernity and especially science. &#8220;Ecology&#8221; in Chinese does not signify a Romantic attachment to nature undefiled by human habitation, but rather a modern, scientific and ultimately technological enterprise. To make Daoist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s green religion</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/11/05/chinas-green-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work of Prof. Hu Fuchen, one of the leading scholars of Daoism, and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This morning, we had the opening ceremony, which was held in the Great Hall of the People. It was my first time in this magnificent building. The purpose of the conference is basically to promote Daoism throughout China and the World. It is being funded by a wealthy donor, and has received backing at a high level from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Daoism has been something of a poor relative lately. Buddhism is better funded. Confucianism receives a very high level of support form the central government. But to many people, Daoism is poorly understood and associated with superstition. As one of the invited foreign delegates, it seems that my job is to demonstrate international support for this venture, to have my photograph taken along with the 500 or so other delegates, and to be part of the ritual theatre that the organizers have carefully crafted to promote Daoism as an essential ingredient of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s transition to sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/10/01/chinas-transition-to-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is reproduced from today&#8217;s Kingston Whig-Standard. &#160; Change in offing in China, prof says Posted By PAUL SCHLIESMANN Behind today&#8217;s show of military might celebrating its 60th anniversary, the People&#8217;s Republic of China is undergoing significant environmental policy change, according to a Queen&#8217;s University professor. &#8220;Economic expansion has been successful in terms of lifting people out of poverty and bringing economic wealth to China,&#8221; said James Miller, a professor of religious studies at Queen&#8217;s. &#8220;They can&#8217;t keep on doing this for the next 50 or 60 years because the environmental and social costs are very high.&#8221; Miller is part of a movement that believes religious traditions can be used to effect environmental change. This summer, he and a group of academics from the U. S. met with China&#8217;s vice-minister of environmental protection. Miller was encouraged by China&#8217;s announcement at last week&#8217;s G20 meetings in Pittsburgh that it was putting a five-year economic development plan in place that would include an emissions trading system. In the past, Miller said, China would have waited for the United States to take the lead. &#8220;The attitude has been, we&#8217;re a developing country, we&#8217;re not going to make the first move,&#8221; he said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china must talk to its religious leaders to create a culture of ecological sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/09/25/china-must-talk-to-its-religious-leaders-to-create-a-culture-of-ecological-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past sixty years China has achieved something close to a miracle when compared with other developing nations. It by and large manages to feed, educate, house and employ its own people. It is not involved in futile and costly military conflicts. It is a creditor nation, not a debtor. Its social and political system provides sufficient stability for the vast majority of its people to pursue their own livelihoods in a rational and predictable way.Yet all this will be lost if the world does not help China to embrace an ecologically sustainable culture. The reason for this is simple. With a population of 1.4 billion, China simply cannot afford to expand its per capita ecological footprint to the level of Europe, let alone America or Canada. Already the stresses on its environment are beginning to take a toll on the social fabric. The Gobi desert is at Beijing’s doorstep and the capital must divert water hundreds of kilometres north from resentful provinces who have to do more with less. The pollution from factories in rural areas prevents farmers from earning a living by growing healthy crops. River life for China’s southern neighbours is threatened by massive hydro-electric projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is democracy good for sustainability?</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/02/23/is-democracy-good-for-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a course in religion and the environment this term, and my students are preparing to debate this very question: is democracy good for sustainability? By way of background, they have been reading Judith Shapiro&#8217;s book Mao&#8217;s War Against Nature, which forcefully details the way that Maoist ideology trumped scientific reason in charting China&#8217;s development in the twentieth century, resulting in famine, population explosion, and environmental disaster. The question is, does this argument still hold today? In his recent International Herald Tribune op-ed about Pan Yue, vice-minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Daniel Gardner writes approvingly of China&#8217;s new-found faith in sustainability (props to John Liu at Yale University for sending me the link). Gardner says: &#8230; Chinese indifference to the environment is a myth. In the last few years China has begun to take aggressive action to bring its air and water pollution under control. Here are a few examples: China&#8217;s fuel-efficiency standard for cars is currently pegged at 43 miles per gallon, which means that when America&#8217;s 2020 standards of 35 mpg go into effect they&#8217;ll be lower than China&#8217;s minimum standard of today. Coal-fired plants must install or retrofit filtering devices in their smokestacks. Chief executives of companies found [...]]]></description>
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