Tag: Beijing
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Steampunk 'Breathing Bike' Beats Beijing Air Pollution
Most Beijing residents buy a small surgical mask to thwart choking air pollution. What if you want something that makes a statement? Artist Matt Hope created a bike with a steampunk air filter to do his daily ride.
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Can Rooftop Farms Green the Skylines of China's Megacities?
Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.
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Interactive, Open Source Kite Project Gets Beijing Locals to Monitor Air Quality (Video)
Combining open-source technology and local traditions of kite-flying, FLOAT Beijing hopes to encourage "citizen science" in the self-monitoring of the city's air quality.
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Water-Shooting Bike Hack Sprays Calligraphic Graffiti (Video)
Taking his cue from a respected tradition, Beijing-based Canadian media artist modifies a cargo tricycle to shoot out Chinese calligraphy in the city's streets -- using water.
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Take The Winter B-icicle Challenge
Two cyclists from Beijing challenge the world to ride all winter
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Define "Home" Anywhere: Mobile Crate Furniture, Kitchen, Bedroom Etc. By Naihan Li
Photos: Naihan Li What's in the box? As we move from static, consumption-driven lifestyles to living with portability, flexibility and "less is more," it's fascinating to see how thoughtful design can bring this vital ethic to bear. We've seen
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Design Your Own 'Hutopolis' at Beijing Design Week
Praised by Prince Charles for their sustainable features, Beijing's traditional hutong alley neighborhoods are now the stars of a SimCity-like interactive game being showcased at Beijing Design Week. Its creators hope letting exhibit
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Beijing Controls Car Purchases To Tame Traffic
The city of Beijing plans to issue only 20,000 car registrations per month (that's still a whopping 240,000 new cars annually) over the next year in order to control traffic. China is
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Solar Powered, Driverless Cars To Drive 8,000 Miles from Rome to Shanghai
If you're planning on driving from Rome to Shanghai this summer, you might encounter two small, orange cars along the route. Covered with seven cameras and four laser scanners each, they'll
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Who Got It Right With Olympic Architecture, Beijing or Vancouver?
The New York Times describes how the glorious stadia and facilities built for the 2008 Olympics are virtually empty, sort of a Field of Dreams where they built it, but nobody is coming.
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Blaming China for Copenhagen Won't Help the Climate
The Copenhagen Accord was a deal and not a deal, and its real implications remain uncertain. Nonetheless, thanks to fly-on-the-wall accounts by participants like Ed Milliband and Mark Lynas ("How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in
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Why the Best Legacy of Copenhagen Could Be a Stronger China
The slight prospects for a deal at Copenhagen are already being pinned largely on the US and China. But with Obama's hands tied behind his back partly by the US Congress, with China already demonstrating leadership on renewable energy and energy
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Three Five Zero: A Climate Change Rap for Copenhagen
At the Beijing installment of October's 350.org event, hundreds of students came together to diss climate change and school their peers about the havoc warming temperatures were wreaking on China and the world.
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China is Tackling Climate Change Better Than the U.S.: Discuss
As the two titans of greenhouse gas emissions announced their first climate pledges last week, the US and China didn't look like were trying hard to impress anyone or one-up each other. Their modest, if politically pragmatic
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Beijing Hits 2,100 New Cars Per Day, and Welcomes More
The announcement yesterday by Beijing's environmental officials that the city was about to hit 4 million automobiles -- and could withstand more -- was, at the very least, poorly timed.
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Fake Snow in China, Kurt Vonnegut's Brother, Falling Cement and Other Weather-Mod Tales
Our story on China's earliest snowfall in decades got picked up by Green Patriot Radio, which interviewed me on the ins and outs of the country's extensive rainmaking program. Among the trivia I share: - Rainmaking technology was
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China Wants to Take "a Leadership Role" On Climate: An Interview with WWF's Yang Fuqiang, Part 2
When it comes to China's efforts to curtail greenhouse gases, Dr. Yang Fuqiang, director of global climate solutions at the World Wildlife Fund, has an optimal vantage point. He began his career as a researcher at the National Development and Reform
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China, U.S., and Climate: An Interview with Yang Fuqiang, WWF's Director of Global Climate Solutions
On Climate Change, "China has to say, this is my problem, and my solution" For more than two decades, Dr. Yang Fuqiang has been a participant in the energy and climate change discussion in and around China. His career began as a researcher at the
