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The Grave Of Confucious I was very impressed by the 2500 year old grave of Confucious in the small town of Qufu, Shandong Province. I was half expecting yet another great mausoleum or souvenir selling temple to be marking the spot, but the grave was nothing more than a large mound of grass in the middle of an enormous forested graveyard of Confucious family members.… Continue

100 Happy Volunteers After Planting Trees In The Deserts Of Inner Mongolia Photo By: Daisuke Hirano 2008 I'm beginning a new blog series on some wonderful people I've met doing great things to make the world a better place. Their backgrounds, ages, professions and nationalities are diverse, some have plenty of money, others barely none, but their love of the earth and humanity is… Continue

On my first long walk, (1990-92) from Canada to South America, to attend the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil, people asked "What are you going to do when you get there?" "I've no idea." I would respond and they would look at me, dissapointed. "You should organise this, organise that.' They would say and give me the impression that if I did not organise something my efforts would be wasted. And… Continue

Every now and again we come across a fabulous hotel in town where we didn't expect to find one; this was the case in Pei Xian, Jiangsu, when we discovered the Han Yuan, a brand new establishment set in beautiful grounds, across an ornate bridge from the rest of the community. The first person we met was Andrew Hou, the assistant manager who catered to our every need, became our firm friend and a… Continue

Yesterday I added a blog post about Ecoogler a search engine that plants a tree in the Amazon for every ten thousand clicks. I thought this to be a very good idea and was inspired to think that Google had set up such a wonderful alternative to its regular search engine. I was led to believe it was a Google enterprise by my friend in Mexico who believed like many others, that Ecoogler.com was a child of Google. However curiosity got the better of me and I searched a little for information on Eco… Continue

Merrin & Louise Watch The Frog Hop We all agreed: We had never seen a frog hoping across lily pads, even though we have been told through countless fairy tales and cartoon illustations that is what frogs do. So when we saw, while wading through the mud a few days ago, a frog hoping across the lillies we were amused, amazed and delighted.

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View From The Beach House After an extended stay in Hong Kong renewing my Chinese mainland visa were back on the road again. The Hong Kong trip was necessary and ultimately worth it - I received an award and spoke at the Royal Geographical Society, (RGS) the apex of the British exploring establishment; Livingstone, Stanley, Shackleton, have gone this way and I was suitbale impressed by the order of… Continue

Every bit of the environment is used when its harvest time in China. We're now in a vast flood plain north of Nanjing and the mighty Yangtze River. Water and rich earth is everywhere. Within a few kilometers of leaving the small town of Ming Guan we hiked close to a lake where tiny communes were settled amidst water filled paddies of rice.

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Link to the Shanghian Bund (Mandarin) Its important that environmentalists get covered by the mainstream media; in the magazines and newspapers that everybody reads. Go beyoind the environmental choir so to speak. I seem to have got there. In the past six months I've been featured in the Cosmopolitan and Allure Magazines and Britain's… Continue

Eight days ago, at around 2.30 in the afternoon, our 27th floor hotel room in the city of Nanjing began to sway. At fist Konomi thought it was the wind, then realized that it was an earthquake. It was nothing more than she'd experienced in Japan and so she was not alarmed and once t… Continue