Tag: Hong Kong
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Green Roofs Are Changing Architecture: Kowloon Rail Terminus
Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.
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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems
The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.
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Interface Studio Architects Break Out Of The Box With Wild Parking Garage Design
What were our Best Of Green Architects from 2010 smoking when they came up with this?
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Unit Fusion: Twirly Tower of Plug-in Housing Proposed for Hong Kong
Why fix your apartment in one place? Or one style and size? Y Design Office gives you the flexibility to decide.
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Hong Kong's First Urban Beekeepers Ensuring Survival of Local Traditions
Hong Kong as a city and as an experience never ceases to amaze me. Though the stereotypical image of Hong Kong as a glittering, polluted ultra-modern metropolis still stands, it's surprising to discover that even just a half-hour ferry
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Fake Lake Makes Magic Water for the Magic Kingdom
Nearly everything about Disneyland, including the out-of-control and egregious consumerism, horrifed me on a recent visit. So horrified me, really, that I had to quickly suspend my judgment and my
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Are the Chinese Finally Giving Up Shark Fin Soup?
A new survey has encouraging results for those concerned about the fate of world shark populations: it looks like the consumption of shark fin soup is dropping. The dish is considered a luxury
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Hong Kong's Ecofootprint Double What's Globally Sustainable: WWF
Back in November WWF released a report showing how even China's modest per capita ecological footprint would be too much for the planet if everyone lived like that--we'd need 1.2 planets to support us all. Now they've
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McDonald's To Offer Fast-Food "McWeddings" in Hong Kong
If soaring wedding costs have you wondering how you can afford it all (and yet, you couldn't be bothered with the effort to put on a more eco-conscious wedding) then McDonald's may have the answer for you.
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Four New Solar-Powered Ferries Coming to Hong Kong
I have to say that usually when I hear about a solar-powered boat I'm a bit skeptical -- often the solar power is just used for lighting or other equipment and not propulsion -- but not so with Kong Kong's four new
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A Rap on Hong Kong's Pollution
Hong Kong is afflicted by such heavy pollution -- much of it the byproduct of China's manufacturing south -- that twenty percent of residents have said they would leave if they could. Plus, pollution is estimated to cost the city HK$11 billion
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Domestic Transformer: 24 Rooms Packed Into One
Apartments are small and expensive in Hong Kong, so architect Gary Chang designed his 344 square foot unit to change into 24 different designs, just by sliding walls and panels around. He even calls it a
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77% of Hong Kong Residents Think Unsafe Food a Major Concern: Ahead of Air Quality, Global Warming
You might have seen John’s earlier post on how one in five Hong Kong residents
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Hong Kong Chefs Join Sustainable Seafood Initiative
Three renowned Hong Kong chefs have been named WWF Ocean Friendly Chefs and will design menus featuring sustainable seafood species recommended by WWF's Seafood Guide. The chefs are Lau Chun from Yellow Door Kitchen, Margaret Xu
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Bill Clinton Kicks Off First (and Last) Charity Summit Overseas
Bill Clinton opened the first Clinton Global Initiative Asia summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday, amid questions over how the global
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In Spite Of Reduce And Reuse, Hong Kong's Plastic Passion Barely Dented
In Hong Kong, long known as a shopper's paradise, everything you buy is swathed in plastic - plastic wrap covers each cucumber, and if you buy the cucumber you'll
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Spiderman Tries to Save Planet from Global Warming
Today we had an email addressed from Alain Robert, (a.k.a. real life Spiderman), as no doubt did many other media outlets. Alain climbs skyscrapers, with nought but his climbing shoes and a bag of gymnasts chalk. His audacious unroped climbs tend to
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Carrot and Stick Power: Hong Kong Electricity Profits Linked to Pollution
In a move that could revolutionize how China prices electricity -- and cuts its toxic coal-fired pollution -- Hong Kong set new regulations on Monday that partly links the city's two power companies' permissible rates of return to how much pollution
