CNN carried news about Roots & Shoots in China that my coworker at the Jane Goodall Institute forwarded to me yesterday. Youth group promotes green shoots of change is about an eco-audit program.

Says a student at the Shanghai Financial Institute who is doing these eco-audits for Shanghai companies, “The reason why there is a lot of improvement needed in most offices is not because people deliberately waste energy or neglect environmental protection but indeed because that they lack opportunities to learn the right skills,” said Tsao. Chinese people are not inherently abusive to their environment–I’m going to risk sounding too paternalistic, and say that they just don’t know better. China’s relationship with the environment is a problem that is being solved. And we’re making a movie about it.