Solutions Series
Randy Kritkausky
China and the Journey to Addressing Climate Change:
Traveling the Silk Route Versus Hitting the Great Wall
University of Vermont
March 2, 2010

Randy Kritkausky is president of ECOLOGIA, an international organization based in Middlebury Vermont. He is a Research Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in the Masters in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) program centered at the Central European University in Budapest. In these capacities bridging academia and the international non-profit world, Randy works to create opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, professors, environmental activists, and NGO project directors to collaborate in developing culturally sensitive and economically viable solutions to global environmental challenges such as climate change. ECOLOGIA's programs focus on China and on the development and implementation of international standards. Climate change came onto ECOLOGIA's horizon when it participated in the creation of ISO 14064, a global standard on greenhouse gas accounting. Bill McKibben described this work in an Orion magazine article entitled "When Boring Is Beautiful".

Most recently, Randy has spent time working with Chinese companies and entrepreneurs that contradict the notion that Chinese business culture universally ignores environmental and social responsibility. ECOLOGIA programs in China support the development of environmentally friendly supply chains with grants from Ford Foundation China, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and private donations.

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