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Yet another innovation by Japan - Bamgoo, an electric vehicle with a body made of bamboo. This ecologically friendly concept car was developed by the Kyoto University’s Venture Business Laboratory and the city, featuring local bamboo ware technology.
The 60-kg single-seater measures 2.7m in length, 1.3m in width and 1.65m in height. The car can run [...]

With the Beijing Olympics now over, are the Beijing citizens heading towards a greener lifestyle or will they revert back to what the situation was before the Olympic Games? Let us take a closer look.
Air Quality
According to sources from Chinadaily, constructions are resuming, factories are restarting operations and also, all cars are allowed to be [...]

For more than a thousand years Koreans have used what they call Hanji (shown above) or traditional paper made out of the bark of mulberry trees to make everything from household objects to impressive works of art.
The handmade paper is so strong and impervious to wind that it was even used for making screen doors [...]

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 [...]