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Environmentalist Ma Jun introduces the Blue Map, an app that empowers people to report pollution violations in their communities and track real-time environmental data, holding emitters accountable and helping companies along the global supply chain make informed sourcing decisions.
- Ma Jun | Speaker | TED
Ma Jun developed the China Pollution Map, China's first...
- Ma Jun | Speaker | TED
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20 ago 2021 · Environmentalist Ma Jun introduces the Blue Map, an app that empowers people to report pollution violations in their communities and track real-time environmental data, holding emitters ...
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After experiencing tremendous economic growth, China now faces severe problems with the environmental quality of its air, land, and water. More than 300 million people have no access to safe drinking water, while more than half of the country’s urban residents face daily exposure to badly polluted air. Unsafe levels of lead have been measured in ch...
While working at the South China Morning Post in the 1990s, Ma Jun had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout China. He witnessed the environmental pollution, eco-degradation, and suffering of people in various watersheds. He began focusing on research into water challenges, and his book, China’s Water Crisis, became a national call for e...
Ma’s most recent high-profile effort involved Apple, one of 29 companies named in a 2010 Green IT report about heavy metal pollution in China—and the only one that did not respond, citing a long-term policy not to disclose its supplier information. He led a coalition of NGOs to launch a “Poison Apple” campaign to protest the company’s lack of suppl...
2 mag 2023 · This is a conversation with Ma Jun, author of China’s Water Crisis and founder of a leading non-governmental organization whose interactive Blue Map app has armed 3.8 million Chinese citizens with easy-to-interpret air- and water-pollution data to name and shame polluters.
Ma Jun (simplified Chinese: 马军; traditional Chinese: 馬軍; pinyin: Mǎ Jūn; born 22 May 1968) is a Chinese environmentalist, environmental consultant, and journalist. He is the director of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE).
Ma Jun developed the China Pollution Map, China's first environmental public database, and the Blue Map, a mobile app that helps the public report environmental violations.
