EUGENE
SOLAR POWER
SUPPLIER SPEAKS
AT PIELC
Among the long list of speakers at the
University of Oregon’s Public Interest En-
vironmental Law Conference is president
and founder of Eugene-based Grape Solar,
Ocean Yuan, who’s proven there’s a mar-
ket for consumer solar panels.
The Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference (PIELC), open to the public,
runs March 3-6 at the UO School of Law
and features a variety of green-oriented
keynote speakers, panels and films.
Yuan moved to Eugene in 1990 from
China’s Suichang county, Zhejiang prov-
ince and went on to graduate from the
UO’s Lundquist College of Business. Yuan
says when he first arrived, he didn’t under-
stand Eugene’s policies on urban growth,
or why the city would limit its own growth.
His views have since changed.
“In developing countries 30 years ago,
they all wanted economic freedom and
growth, and sometimes unlimited growth,”
Yuan says. “The consequence is the envi-
ronment in China is terrible.”
He adds, “We used to have clean air. We
used to have clean water. We used to have
fish in the river.”
In China, Yuan sold the fish his father
caught before going to school in the morn-
ing. Now, the solar panels his company
produces are sold in Costco and Home De-
pot stores across the country.
China and the U.S. are the world’s larg-
est contributors to pollution, according to
study published by global research organi-
zation, the World Resources Institute.
The same study says the U.S. and China
produce more greenhouse emissions than
the next eight countries, and that the top
10 countries comprise 70 percent of the
world’s emissions production. The study
counted the entire European Union as the
third most emissions producing country.
Yuan says there’s no lack of environ-
mental laws, but the implementation isn’t
effective. “Fines are like a trade off,” he
tells EW. “People choose to pay fines and
still continue operating.
“In China, for example, people born in
the mid-’90s and new millennium, they
never have seen clear sky, or stars in the
big cities like Shanghai,” he adds. “They
probably think, ‘This is the world. That’s
the way it is.’”
He says he believes education to the
general population is critical to build a
foundation of environmental awareness.
“Starting from school level,” he says,
“we should be educating about the harm-
fulness of polluted air, polluted water and
don’t take it for granted.”
Yuan will host three other speakers
from China representing legal, business
and academic environmental interests. Lai
Huineng, Dr. Jiwen Chang, Cao Yin and
Yuan will speak about how they’re con-
fronting environmental issues in China in
a keynote talk from noon to 2 pm Friday,
March 4. — Mohammed Alkhadher
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