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[Observer.com - All Articles] Breathing in Beijing: Environmental Quality and the 2008 Summer ...: Particulate matter size 10 (measured in micrograms per cubic meter) was recorded in New York City and Beijing on the first few days of the 2008 Olympics: On Friday, August 8: Beijing was 156 with New York City at 11.8; Saturday, August 9, Beijing was 110, New York, 12.1, Sunday August 10, Beijing was 278 and New York City, 19.0.
[Beijing Olympic Games] Olympic Village wins award for ”˜green’ design: Though much attention has focused on the country’s efforts to curb its air pollution, China’s huge push to achieve its goal of a “Green Olympics” has also meant a major investment in other environmental efforts, including the .
[About.com Green Living: Most Popular Articles] 2008 Beijing Olympics - December 11, 2007 in Beijing, China: An environmental campaign titled 'Guard The Blue Sky' was launched on December 10 with the aim of achieving 245 days in 2008 which would be deemed to fall within acceptable levels of pollution. Sources of pollution in and around the city are targeted as the city prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
[Secretly Fabulous] China falls short on Olympic promises, critics say: The Amnesty report cites other human rights violations leading up to the Olympics. Amnesty accuses the Chinese government of using surveillance and detention to pursue family members of activists and blocking protesters from traveling to the capital city from other areas, such as China's Sichuan province, which was devastated by an earthquake in May that claimed the lives of nearly 70,000 people.
[China Environmental Law] China Environmental Factbox: This is an accurate assessment of the environmental enforcement challenges in China as far as it goes. It starkly highlights a real issue, however. We’ve all heard the casual China observer note with a wink, nod, and knowing chuckle “if the top leadership in Beijing wants to get something done, it gets it done.” When we apply this bit of China-wisdom to the environmental enforcement situation, we would have to conclude that the “top leadership” does not want effective enforcement of China’s environmental laws.
[Green Your Future] Gold, Silver, Bronze, and”¦ Green?: With China’s supply and use of coal, this will help reduce pollution affecting the country. The biggest change will have to come in the form of a cultural shift that recognizes the need to make changes.
[driive] China Olympic Diaries: Environmental Organizations in China - a ...: As the Games of the 29th Olympiad open, the world's eyes are focused on China. Despite the best efforts of the Chinese government, the Olympics begin under a cloud, with the ever present risk of disruption as a result of air pollution.
[Olympics and the World] Games strive to be a green model: On Wednesday, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented the Olympic Village with one of the highest environmental certifications, LEED gold. The buildings in the village derive most of their power from geothermal and solar sources.
[La Marguerite] Grim Environmental Play Behind Chinese Olympics Fireworks: This is such an important message that somehow has to get across - It is the west that consumes what China produces, therefore the increasing CO2 emissions from China are our responsibility. We need to stop consuming and stop pointing fingers of blame at a country which still has considerably lower per capita CO2 emissions than US and Europe.
[WGOT (What's Goin On Toronto... Weblog)] Health - What’s the real Price we pay for Discount Goods?: What i am trying to get at is who is really responsible for the pollution in china? Is it you with your need to save that dollar or is it the governments of the world in which we elect.
[Everyone's Blog Posts - Young Famous and Fashionable] Environment: China to Raise Sales Tax on Big Cars up to 40%: Pollution by large commercial vehicles and many buses appears to go unchecked. Auto purchases are less affected by high global oil prices in China than in the West because government controls keep retail gasoline and diesel prices at .
[Beijing Olympics Blog] Beijing Air Improves, Olympic Village Earns LEED Gold ...: Some of the air pollution reduction measures that have been adopted by the Chinese authorities for the Olympic Games include the closing down of heavy …
[Jagadees's Weblog] China’s emission is rising: In the pollution we have to include the transportation of the Chinese products to other international countries and all of those pollution should be charge to that country. Because when we buy something we are being responsible for the pollution from mining to transportation to produce that product on our desk.
[Britannica Blog] China, Coal, and Global Pollution: In a section titled Solutions for a Greener China in its recent annual report, the Natural Resources Defense Council succinctly states, “with estimates that global warming pollution from China is about equal to that of the United States and that 36% of total mercury in the US comes from China our common enviornmental fate has never been clearer.” While China is a major source of toxic mercury in the US and elsewhere, 50% seems insupportable.
[takepart Blog Network » Environment] China Tightens Pollution Controls For Olympics: Foreign athletes at the Bejing Olympics may have to compete in uniforms like these if China doesn't get its pollution under control
[Wend Blog] What Chinese pollution really looks like: This video produced by VBS.tv takes a look at the Chinese city of Linfen which happens to be on the Top 20 Global List of polluted cities. Done in five parts, the Toxic Linfen series analyzes the country’s dependency on coal and the consequences of water and air pollution on Chinese individuals.
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