John Ashlin

Checkout my article Cultivate arts; Cultivate community; nature Nurture #CircularEconomy How #art has vital role to play helping nature culture thrive #https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cultivate-arts-community-nature-nurture-how-have-vital-john-ashlin #education #Sustainability

Thanks to #TsinghuaUniversity ‘Basel Convention Regional Centre for inviting me to present @circleeconomy’s pioneering ‘Circle Cities program’, at annual ‘International Conference on Waste Management - along with other keynote speakers from @UNDP @EUinChina #circulareconomy

'#China started construction of the country's first power storage plant recycling retired #battery from new energy vehicles #NEV.' Any progress being made in this area re: Europe, US, Australia? @AESAlliance @SCE @cutwindt #EV #Solar #batterystorage xinhuanet.com/english/2019-0…

#BikeSharing "tricky biz, profits eaten by competition. Needs 2b part of bigger biz. Like e-mail: Lots of benefits 4 society, but providers unable 2 create barrier 2 entry, anybody could host e-mail & nobody makes money” @giztransportCN @giztransportCN theglobeandmail.com/business…

Want to know the practical actions that cities can take to boost the development of green ‘circular’ jobs and skills? 140,000 jobs are making the green #circulareconomy happen in the City of Amsterdam @Ocasio2018 @justicedems @sunrisemvmt #GreenNewDeal

Interesting unlikely green love affair Between #China & Poland Other countries may invest in Poland #CleanEnergy as well. But if they do, they'll be playing catch-up as #China has pole position? #Renewables #ClimateChange #CircularEconomy ozy.com/fast-forward/the-unl… via @ozy

#China urged to lead way in efforts to save life on Earth theguardian.com/environment/…

Beautiful blue skies yesterday and today in Beijing, but earlier in the week #AirPollution was really heavy. Worrying if true that more broadly #China is lowering its #environment standards to cope with slowing growth and trade war with US sc.mp/9lmvv 来自 @SCMPNews

Great @guardian event. Whilst we continue the #Brexit psycho drama…John Kerry: Europe must tackle #climatechange or face migration chaos theguardian.com/us-news/2018…

‘#China crushing Europe grand plans for #EV’ Could biggest blowback from Europeans choosing diesel over electric to reduce CO2, be beginning 2 materialise? Emissions scandal expensive & embarrassing, China push 4 EV existential threat 2 Euro industry? cnn.com/2018/10/30/business/…

Is the sun slowly setting on oil demand? Interesting article from Bloomberg about how Oil’s Biggest Threat Isn’t Tesla But Aversion to the energy source from an increasing number of key stakeholders #ev #renewables bloomberg.com/amp/view/artic…

We had a great day and looking forward to future collaboration to further promote #China EU #CircularEconomy MOU agenda

We had a great day and looking forward to future collaboration to further promote #China EU #CircularEconomy MOU agenda

First big tranche of used batteries available within next few years. Great opportunity to supercharge storage market! “#EV batteries’ ‘second life’ could be #CleanEnergy game-changer #China #battery #recycling monopoly.” thinkprogress.org/how-used-e…

Congratulations to the team, looking forward to reading EMF report on #CircularEconomy opportunity for urban and industrial innovation in #China

Recent Global Climate Action Summit, with significant input from California, other US states and #China has to be seen as positive. Yet without US Federal government action, will still fall short of 2 degree #climatechange target chinadialogue.net/article/sh…

A mania for mobile payments is leaving the poor behind. #china #SmartCities foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/11…

How Chinese scientists hope to use the sea to fight #plasticpollution #china #pollution #Plastic sc.mp/2NYsYhp via @SCMPNews