With new buildings and green technology, China is developing ways to conserve and sustain their energy. With a big green foot they are starting with a state of the art office building employing eco-friendly features.

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Karen Salmansohn talk with David Neubert the creator of thepanelist.com shares some information about China's economy and dispels any myths on the topic.

Having been through several years of drought, China has begun a water treatment system. Using advanced technology China has relieved their water shortage and cleaned up the environment.

In the Tuesday elections, the Democrats won control of the House and the Senate, spelling good tidings for the environment. With occasional exceptions amongst the Republicans (like now-ousted moderate Lincoln Chafee), the Dems are traditionally much better stewards of halcyon skies, amber waves of grain, and purple mountain majesties. Speaker of the House-to-be Nancy Pelosi is on the record as supporting global-warming legislation.

China's Three Gorges Dam is one step closer to being fully operational today. Chinese engineers blew up a temporary dam holding back the waters of the mighty Yangtzee River, allowing the river to reach its full height, more than 500 feet, behind the dam. The dam - a highly controversial project that has been many years in the making - will not be totally operational for three more years, but construction was completed last month.

Being susceptible to the appeal of adventure eating, I've embraced the consumption of oddities of brows both high and low in places across the globe. I've had foie gras in some of New York's finest restaurants, calf fries in Fort Worth, and street food in Hanoi, and never has my cast-iron stomach failed me. So as I shivered through gut-wrenching pain under a heavy blanket in a sweltering apartment in Hong Kong, my sense of betrayal was plaintive and vast. Even worse, I suffered at my own hands: I knew there was something amiss with the Chinese scallions I sliced into my tuna salad, but my better instincts abandoned me. Fortunately, like most sufferers of food poisoning, I was back in the saddle in a day or two, but I did have some lingering questions: would I have gotten sick if I'd spent another HKD $10 (about USD $1.30) for Japanese or Australian scallions? How does one go about trying to buy healthy and sustainably-produced fruits and vegetables in an unfamiliar landscape?

Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, has been saying for years that the global economy is being hobbled by man-made environmental trends: “shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms.” In his book, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Brown looks at the way the growth of the developing world will vastly accelerate these trends.

I was just about to bite into a delicious chunk of tofu last night when one of my dining companions pointed at my chopsticks and told me they were destroying the planet. Chopsticks? Sure, they always seem wasteful to me, like those little wooden coffee stirrers that people use once to swirl the milk in and then throw away. But I'd assumed they were a byproduct of other timber uses, and had never really considered them before. Turns out disposable wooden chopsticks are a huge problem.

A large complex of ancient buildings—some which resemble the Mayan pyramids—has been discovered at the bottom of Fuxian Lake in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The city also features rock roads, a round colosseum-like structure, and multi-level buildings reaching up to five stories with many small steps between the floors. Sonar surveys estimate the area of the city to cover nearly one square mile. Chinese television broadcasted video via an underwater autonomous vehicle which transmitted images of divers searching the site and unearthing artifacts including pottery and a piece of stone carved with floral patterns.

It's hard to believe the words “clean” and “coal” could ever be uttered in the same breath. But a high-tech concept for low-emission coal power is increasingly gaining acceptance among industry executives and environmentalists alike. Like it or not, coal already accounts for 50 percent of America's electricity production, and yes, much of that comes from dirty old smog- and CO2-belching plants. The good news is that next-gen technology is on the horizon that could eventually make coal power emissions-free.