Tag: Olympics - Page 6
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China's Gas Hike Pushes Drivers to Public Transit
Beijing is "trying it's best to improve the environment" for the Olympics, largely by shutting down factories. But to really improve the environment in Beijing in the long term the government will need to focus on a much smaller but more prevalent
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Beijing's Latest Olympic Crackdown: Recyclers
The other day, as my friend and I were on our way to sell a load of plastic bottles and paper boxes to our local recycling man, we were stopped by one of our vigilant neighbors. "Whoa, he's not there! He won't be back for two
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Beijing's Olympic Security Forces Drive ... Segways?
Combine rising fuel costs with escalating security concerns in China, and this makes perfect sense -- kind of: ahead of the Olympics, a Chinese anti-terror team has recently been training on specially-outfitted Segways, the electric, gyro-balanced
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Beijing Bans One Million Cars for Olympics, Sharply Raises Gas Prices
Despite ruling it out earlier, Beijing will ban one million vehicles from its streets for three months in an attempt to clear the air and roads ahead of August's "Green Olympics," officials announced yesterday. Though it was ruled out earlier, the ban,
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Travelodge Building Pop-Up Prefab Hotels
We previously showed the Travelpod, an experimental prefab from Travelodge, and thought it was an interesting one-off. We were wrong; the company is looking seriously at prefab hotels and is building their first in the west London district of Uxbridge,
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Greenwash Watch: Carbon-Neutral Olympic Torch
Apparently, the 2012 Olympic flame is going to carbon neutral. Does that strike anyone else as bonkers? The 2012 Olympics is going to be a huge, polluting event, with thousands of people flying all over the world to attend and compete. Making a carbon
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TH Forums Highlights: Bike to Work, Boycott Beef, Talk to Strangers and More...
1) Forums user rationalist has a story for fellow users: "I got laughed at yesterday for riding my bike to and from work. I happen to know the woman
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Buses Planned for 2010 Olympics
Following initial reports a few years back that Vancouver was planning on investing in a fleet of hydrogen-powered transit buses for the 2010 Olympics, we now have confirmation that the city of Whistler will become host to the world's largest fleet of
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Beijing To Drive One Million Cars Off the Road Next Month
Beijing will ban one million cars—a third of its autos—for a two-week test of its smog-control measures in August, a year before it hosts the summer Olympics. The most polluted June in seven years--due largely, experts have said, to automobil
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Beijing To "Force" Good Weather for the Olympics
According to China's top meteorologists, the chances that the skies will open up over the "bird's nest" stadium at the Olympics opening ceremony on August 8, 2008 are 50/50. But the Chinese government isn't known for taking chances -- especially when
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Beijing Olympians Urged to "Go For Energy Gold": WWF Endorses Carbon Offsets
The WWF has stepped in the middle of the ongoing controversy about carbon offsets, providing new fodder for TreeHugger's healthy, keeping-it-huggy debate on the subject. (See Wikipedia for a primer, and check out Mike's recent cautiously
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For the Olympics, Will Beijing Paint the Town Green?
According to locals in Fumin county, in China's southwest Yunnan province, workers began arriving last August with heavy equipment to green a small mountainside. But instead of trees and soil they came armed with large paint guns and orders from
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TreeHugger Picks: Carbon-Neutral Everything
As 2006's New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year, "carbon neutral" has been on the tip of many tongues this year, leading to many different and exciting things that won't contribute to our warming globe. Here are some of our picks of things
