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Pollution in China is Worse Than Ever, Citizens Say
China's environmental problem is "very serious" or "relatively serious," according to a report published last week. Just as troubling -- or perhaps promising -- is that these conclusions aren't the determination of researchers: they're the
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Video: Beijing's Line 10 -- the "iPhone of Subways"
The Beijing subway makes up for what it lacks in panache (privet, Moscow!) with sleek zippy train lines that get built at record speed, and with a host of high-tech trimmings.
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Big Apple is Big Winner for Its Transit Improvements
New York City's sustainability efforts under its comprehensive PlaNYC 2030 boosted it above Beijing, which scrambled to clean up its air before hosting the Olympics, and three other international
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Beijing to Drivers: Give Up Your Car, We'll Pay You $3,600
Photo: AP/Greg Baker Desperate Times Beijing is so desperate to get high-polluting cars off the roads, the city has devised a scheme that will pay citizens as much as $3600 to give up heavily polluting vehicles -- and even give drivers more money to
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Chinese Seniors at "Outdoor Gym" Generate Electricity For Local TVs
Six exercise bikes lined up in the street of Beijing's Fengtei district look in this video clip like toys with their bright purple and chartreuse components, and the senior citizens riding the bikes certainly don't seem like they are trying to get
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Citing Environment, China Delays World's Longest Aqueduct Project
China is delaying its construction of a massive earth-changing project that will divert billions of tons of water to its parched north, in an attempt to mitigate environmental damage. (Updated | 4 Jan 09 : Cleaner Greener China points to conflicting
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A Resolution for 2009: Around the World in an Electric Bike
Guim Valls Teruel is almost ready to go. His goal: Travel all 5 continents on an electric bike. The project is called the Electric Bicycle World Tour. Guim decided to choose this alternative form of personal transportation to promote the use of cleaner
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Beijing Meets Its "Blue Sky" Target for 2008 (After Moving the Goal Posts)
China has a big counterfeiting problem, but it's not DVDs or clothing or cars. It's pollution statistics. We've mentioned it before, and wrote about it recently at The Vine, but as the UN worries about giant smog clouds over Asia and Beijing
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World's First Plug-In Electric Car Goes On Sale Next Month -- in China
And It's Coming This Way As the ghost of GM's assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric car, being readied for its December release -- in China.
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China's Coal Fires Burn 20 Million Tons of Coal Per Year
It's known for being the world's cheapest fuel, but Chinese coal is actually more expensive than ever: a new report estimates that the environmental and social costs of China's coal usage hit RMB1.7
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Killer Smog Cloud Smothers Sunlight Across Asia
Asia's Airborne Toxic Event Don't adjust your monitors: Natural light has become 10 to 25 percent dimmer in cities such as Beijing, Karachi, Shanghai and New Delhi as 3-km thick "brown clouds" of
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China's Grassroots Green NGOs Double in Three Years
The government-sponsored All-China Environment Federation released its annual report last week on domestic non-governmental organization (NGO) activity, which included some promising figures: 508: grassroot-level
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"We Need to Be More Chinese than the Chinese": Interview with GE CEO "Nani" Beccalli-Falco
To execs like Ferdinando "Nani" Becalli-Falco, President and CEO of GE International, China looks like a gold mine. But is it a green mine? As the clean tech industry in the the People's Republic of Greenhouse Gases grows to be the world's biggest, GE
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China's Innovative Traffic Lights: How China Is Already "Light" Years Ahead of the West
An article in the IHT last week raised China's billion-dollar, billion-ton-of-CO2 question: how will a country known for its inimitable capacity for imitation manage to switch to an economy based on innovation and invention?
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On the Train to Tibet: Railroading the Roof of the World
An Illustrated Guide to the Highest Railway Even after less than a handful of hours of sound sleep, I awoke with a start just before my alarm sounded. Suddenly, the vents began to emit a steady woosh--oxygen being piped in to assist our breathing at
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Beijing To Force 800,000 Cars Off the Road Daily
Anyone wondering if Beijing's azure blue skies would last after the "green" Olympics left town (hello) can breathe a small sigh of relief. It took a few weeks, but in an effort to keep the skies and roads relatively clear, the Beijing
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Post-Olympics Beijing To Traffic: "Welcome Back!"
Beijing will not extend its Olympics-time odd-even car restriction policy past its deadline of Sept. 20th, officials said this week, as the Paralympic Games drew to a close. Drivers will be "encouraged" instead to leave their car at home
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Repackaged, "Luxury" Mooncakes Foil China's Wasteful Packaging Ban
China has a packaging problem. I don't mean a branding problem. I mean the materials that companies cover their stuff with.
