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According to the news from Xinhuanet, the Beijing Olympic Village designed with environmental-friendly concept in mind, won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold award on Wednesday, 13th of August. The head of the Beijing Olympic Village, Chen Zhili, received the award from the U.S Treasury Henry Paulson who presented  on behalf of [...]

With the Olympic just 24 hours away, the IOC (international Olympic Committee has announced that Beijing’s air does not pose any health hazards to the athletes, officials and visitors.
Even though haze and overcast skies are still present, it does not represent that the air quality is actually poor as commented by a Beijing environmental official.
Arne [...]

Japanese women dressed in yukata or summer casual kimono, sprinkle recycled water on the hot road as a part of nationwide campaign to ease the urban heat along a street in Tokyo`s Ginza shopping district on Sunday. Temperatures had soared to 34 deg C in the Japanese capital.
Source: The Statesman & The Straits Times
Image: The [...]

With animal feed and fertilizer prices at record highs, Japan’s food recycling industry is seeing greater demand than ever before for pellets for pigs and poultry made from recycled leftovers.
Japan disposes of some 20 millions tonnes of food waste a year, five times as much as world food aid to the poor in 2007. The [...]

Professionals in Shanghai have found a way to cool themselves without having to actually to go a cool place. They are choosing instead to wear T-shirts and sneakers for the coming Cool Week activity.
White-collar workers in the Lujiazui financial district of the Pudong area will work at 26 C rather than 24 C temperatures in [...]

With the coming of the Olympic Games, and the problem of air pollution not easing, China has launched traffic restrictions in a last minute ditch to ease the air pollution problem.
Vehicles with even and odd plates will hit the roads only on alternate days, which effectively means just half of the capital’s 3.29 million automobiles [...]

This year’s 2008 Beijing Olympics has been termed “Green Olympics“. But how green are the venues that will be hosting the Olympic games?
Lets take a look at three of such venues. Firstly, the National Stadium, known as the “Bird’s Nest” for its latticework of interwoven steel. Secondly, the National Aquatics Centre, or “Water [...]

The Energy Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Wednesday that starting from mid of July, all fuel for automobiles will have to contain at least one percent bio-diesel in order to help reduce carbon emissions and cut down on the usage of fossil fuels.
This move of using bio-diesels which is made primarily [...]