China's first National Ecology Day

      On Aug 15, 2005, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC, said that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." Since then, China has pulled out all the stops to protect the environment and promote the concept of "ecological civilization" at home and abroad. On this first National Ecology Day in China, the Hub with Wang Guan talks to Wu Changhua, China director of Office of Jeremy Rifkin, and vice chair of the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Water Forum, and to Muhammad Irfan Khan, professor and founder of the Department of Environmental Science and dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the International Islamic University, to discuss ways of raising environmental awareness and galvanizing governments and ordinary people into action. What drastic lifestyle change does environmental protection imply on a daily basis? Is less fossil fuel, less meat and more renewables the solution? And how to reconcile economic growth and ecology as climatechange and biodiversity loss become more acute?