Senior Researcher Bigman addresses the Food Crisis
Korea Development Institute, Seoul

Research Director Dr. David Bigman described the confluence of economic, trade, currency and supply factors that combined to create the food crisis of 2008 in a special seminar held at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. The talk outlined the complex factors underlying unexpected rises and falls in commodity prices and their implications for consumers and for the least developed nations in general. Dr. Bigman closed with a consideration of the risk of such an explosion in food prices taking place in the near future. Dr. Bigman suggested that such a danger remains significant.

Pastreich delivers Keynote Address on Eco-friendly Cities Conference on Green Growth Cities in Korea

March 11, 2009

Director Pastreich joined Mayor Park Seonghyo in launching a wide-ranging discussion on concrete policies for transforming the city of Daejeon into an environmentally sound urban environment through concrete policies over the next five years. The discussion covered successful efforts by local government around the world to create sustainable communities. Read More >>

Senior Researcher David Bigman
Asia Institute Forum

March 5, 2009

Senior Researcher Dr. David Bigman led a discussion of contemporary food security in Asia in light of the challenges of climate change and water shortages at the monthly Asia Institute Forum. The talk included leading experts from Daejeon and Dr. Steven McLaughlin, Vice Provost for International Initiatives, who was visiting SolBridge International School of Business. Read More >>

Pastreich Proposal for "Green" Post-Earthquake Sichuan Enacted
Heihu Town, Sichuan

February, 2009

Director Pastreich coauthored with John Feffer, editor of Foreign Policy in Focus, a proposal to rebuild the towns in Sichuan damaged in the 2008 earthquake as ecocities. The concrete proposals have been put into practice.

Pastreich's article was published in Chinese on July 3, 2008 by China News (http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2008/07-03/1300922.shtml) and subsequently covered in the newsletter of China's renowned environmental group Friends of Nature (FON). Friends of Nature then made a formal proposal to the One Foundation in November of 2008 for a "green school" reconstruction project for Heihu Town in Mao County, Sichuan. The new building will be a model for environmentally sustainable construction China. For more information, see (http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/79/n-479.html). Read More >>

Members of Daejeon Green Growth Forum Visit Japan

January 17-22, 2009

Tsukuba, Japan

Three members of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum, Ji-won Yang, Vice President of KAIST (and Chairman of the Green Growth Forum), Sanghyuk Yoo, Woosong University Professor, and Emanuel Pastreich, Director of the Asia Institute, visited Tsukuba, Japan to discuss future collaboration. The visit was related to an initiative being considered to make Daejeon, Tsukuba and Stanford the center of a planned Ecocity Consortium that would span Asia. As one of Asia's largest research cluster, Tsukuba representatives have expressed interest in closer collaboration.

Pastreich visits Chengdu to Discuss Environmental Policy in China Sichuan University, Chengdu

December 17-18, 2008

Director Pastreich visited Chengdu China to give a talk on China's role in the emerging environmental economy and meet with professors from the department of economics and the Environmental Studies School. Pastreich spoke concerning the proposal he wrote with John Feffer to rebuild Sichuan's Wenchuan as an ecocity after the earthquake. Professor Liu Ming of the department of economics arranged Pastreich's visit to the resort Dujiangyan, a city hard hit by the May earthquake, to observe reconstruction efforts. Read More >>

PUBLICATIONS:

Emanuel Pastreich and John Feffer’s Proposal for a sustainable reconstruction of the Wenchuan, the city hit hardest by the Sichuan earthquake. Published originally in Foreign Policy in Focus.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5263

Efforts of the Daejeon Green Growth Forum covered in the Policy Forum of the Nautilus Institute

http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/08099RanKe.html

Emanuel Pastreich’s proposal for Daejeon as an ecocity. Published originally in HelloDD.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=384381&rel_no=1

Dr.David Bigman’s talk on measures of competitiveness delivered at the Korea Development Institute.

http://www.solbridge.ac.kr/asiainstitute/new/down/Competitiveness(SA)Final.pdf

"The Language of Climate Change" Foreign Policy in Focus

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6069