Organic China the beginning

I started this blog because despite my best attempts and the raw power of a search engine like Google, I cannot find anyone reporting regularly on Organic food movements in China.

So here you have it. This is my attempt to find those reporting on Organics, report myself, and solicit stories from you.

This will be everything and anything organic.

Featuring

• Organic produce
• Chefs
• Food movement leaders
• Farms
• Restaurants
• Stores
• Food Safety
• Deliciousness
• Accountability / Green Washing

I'll need help. I aspire OC to be in English and Chinese so we can get the most readers, contributors, and hopefully inspire consumers as well as farmers do to better.


At little bit about me. I am Sean Howell, an American businessman living in Shanghai, not your typical Organic Blogger. On the contrary, even those without a sustainability background have heard and are concerned about the food safety in China that we face everyday. Sure we want to eat the local yummy dumpling delights, the spinach with sweet gravies, the dried beans, the celery, the green onions, of course the garlic...all the things that make local Chinese food absolutely wonderful.

About the sustainability background, well aside from running in for-profit circles, I spend most of my time on Sustainability activism, New Urbanism, arts. I co-founded Friendsofseattle.org a green urban and livability political powerhouse in the Pacific Northwest, I am involved in a number of food movement groups in the USA and hope some of them migrate to Asia, and I have special interests in developing economies and have worked on a number of development projects in and outside ofAfrica. Though, I hope you get to know me through my posts as well as in person.

Many of us fall into two camps. The Dragon is fine camp, those of us who try and not think about where this food is coming from. What water source it had or what chemicals were used on this exceptionally green lettuce. The Dragon is the Dragon and we have no choice but to eat what is here. Sadly, I have been looking for the great green Dragon and options so far are few.

With that said, please help. Share your recommendations for restaurants, chefs, articles you read, food safety scares, farms, produce stands, anything. Email me ideas or write submissions, send me links. Tell your friends to read this. Recommend it to a Chinese colleague. We have to get people talking to each other.

I am looking for

• People to send in ideas of stories or recommendations
• People to submit journal entries
• Translators. Let's get this in Chinese to help pass it on.