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Beijing Closing Gas Stations

Beijing is admitting that it is a dirty place and is trying to clean itself up. Because they are hosting the olympics this year, they’re trying to improve their image. To reduce the amount of air pollution in the city officials are closing gas stations and retrofitting others. I have no idea why they didn’t [...]

February 15th, 2008
Topic: Environment, Transportation Tags: , , ,

Beijing to build “Green Belt”

Starting small, Beijing has reserved a 1 km swathe on the capital’s fringe for parkland and recreation. It may not seem like much, but remember that Beijing has phenomenal development pressure, soaring land prices and not much more land to work with.

December 3rd, 2007
Topic: Environment, Random Act of Good Tags: , , ,