Lake Khovsgol

Two events worth attending:

In Beijing tonight:
At ISB starting 19:30, you can see a documentary film about the first-ever diving expedition to Lake Khovsgol, an ancient body of water in Mongolia that contains two percent of the world's freshwater.

For more about the expedition, see this Danwei post.

In New York tomorrow:
A film screening and discussion with ecological filmmaker John Liu at the Asia Society in New York: about "A Chinese environmental model for export".

China's environment is under assault by the demands of its rapidly expanding economy. Yet China's ability to restore some of its most devastated landscapes can be a lesson to all developing nations. Ecological filmmaker John D. Liu reveals a mega-environmental rehabilitation project in China in a short version of his film "The Lessons of the Loess Plateau," followed by a stimulating presentation about the implications China's approach to ecological restoration has for Africa. Liu will be joined in conversation with Michael Zhao from the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations.

Since the mid-1990s Liu has concentrated on ecological film making and has written, produced and directed films on grasslands, deserts, wetlands, oceans, rivers, urban development, atmosphere, forests, endangered animals, and other topics primarily for Earth Report and Life series on the BBC World. In 2003, Liu wrote, produced, and directed "Jane Goodall - China Diary" for National Geographic. Liu is the founder of the Environmental Education Media Project and has been named the Rothamsted International Fellow for the Communication of Science by the Rothamsted Research Institute under the Biotech and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK.

For more about the screening, see this Asia Society web page.