This summer, CAN brings you a brand new public service announcement featuring popular Hong Kong movie star, Daniel Wu. The video is an ironic 1980s-style infomercial flogging a fake brand of canned air called “Fresh Air.” The Cantonese version of the video has already been viewed 140,000 times on YouTube. Here are both versions:
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Art For Air from Clean Air Network and Ben & Jerry’s
日期: 2010年8月9日 – 2010年9月17日
Dates: August 9th – September 17th, 2010
是次比賽的勝出者與首200名的參加者可以獲得由美國冰淇淋品牌 Ben & Jerry’s所送出的冰淇淋獎品！
The winner and first 200 entrants of the Art for Air drawing competition about Hong Kong air pollution will receive special ice cream prizes from
Ben & Jerry’s!
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This week’s API exceedances bode ill for this autumn
Two days ago, there was an API exceedance at Tap Mun, indicating increasing emissions from the mainland. (“API” is the Hong Kong government’s official ”Air Pollution Index”.) Tap Mun is a rural area close to the Chinese border, with virtually no roadside emissions, meaning that, when an exceedance...
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Annelise O’Connell of Mini Spotters recently penned an op-ed piece to the SCMP objecting to my editorial, “Idling while air pollution goes through the roof”. In her SCMP piece, Annelise stated emphatically that, “the Legislative Council needs to pass this bill without exemptions.”
Annelise’s point of view is certainly understandable (and, indeed,...
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There are two main focuses in the meeting and some other minor discussion. The two major points are the new Air Pollution Index (API) and the new arrangement about the replacement of old buses.
The new API
The most important news from the meeting is that EPD and 3 universities were working together on research about...
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On Monday, CAN showed up with fellow environmental groups to give support to Secretary of the Environment, Edward Yau, during his visits to taxi and bus queues throughout Hong Kong. Under pressure from taxi drivers and bus companies, Yau made appearances in Central, Mongkok, Causeway Bay, Hung Hom and Lam Tin to experience...
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Op-ed by CAN CEO, Joanne Ooi: “Idling while air pollution goes through the roof“
In light of the furore triggered by the anti-idling bill, CAN CEO Joanne Ooi points out how the EPD and Environment Secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah are depleting valuable political capital to win passage for a bill with hard-to-measure public health benefits. She urges...
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For immediate release
20 July, 2010
Today, the Hong Kong medical profession
(The Hong Kong Paediatric Society, The Hong Kong Geriatric Society,
The Hong Kong Asthma Society, The Hong Kong Society of Paediatric Respirology, The Hong Kong Paediatric Nurses Association and Hong Kong Doctors Union)
issued a bold and unprecedented letter to the Government, calling for immediate protection of...
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SCMP
Joanne Ooi
The timing of the bill to ban idling engines could not be worse. In July last year, the Hong Kong government announced its intention to overhaul the city’s air quality objectives – non-binding caps on the levels of seven air pollutants. To meet the new targets, the government commissioned the engineering firm Arup...
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VIDEO: A must-watch for parents: Hedley talks about the long and short-term impacts of air pollution on child health
CAN interviewed Professor Hedley about child health before he departed Hong Kong. The result is a hard-hitting video about how damage to children’s lungs can result in a lifetime of permanently impaired health. Every parent should...
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