Check out this 2-minute clip which features highlights from Focus on Film’s 2009 youth filmmaking project with 200 Hong Kong secondary school students, themed around air pollution. We launched the clip this Saturday on the video screen in front of Sogo, where it will continue to play all month, in addition to being screened on...
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SCMP John Carney With pollution levels on the rise it’s hard to find a positive Hong Kong environmental story these days, but the introduction of FedEx’s first hybrid delivery truck here is at least a move in the right direction….
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At 2:45, a large crowd of media, onlookers and kids gathered in front of the video screen at Sogo to witness the unveiling of a 2-minute video about air pollution. The video, which went live at 3 pm sharp, contained highlights from the footage created by 200 secondary school students from 13 schools throughout...
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SCMP Ng Kang-chung As many as 35 giant turbines, each as tall as a 27-storey building with blades as long as the wing of a Boeing jetliner, will be dotted across the sea southwest off Lamma five years from now if a HK$3 billion plan by Hongkong Electric (SEHK: 0006) to use wind energy to produce...
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While reading this coverage by the NY Times about how certain powerful Texan constituencies are objecting to Obama’s tightening of the US’ ozone standard, I was struck by a few lines in the article which point to the challenges of overhauling the US’ environmental regime. Are these obstacles insurmountable as long as pork barrel...
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SCMP Young Post  Diocesan Girls’ School   Singapore would be an ideal choice. It is a clean place, both environmentally and politically. Its strict law enforcement guarantees safety and comfort. What’s more, Singapore gives weight to education. Schools are particularly good at teaching languages. So if I studied there, I would be more competitive. I’d move to...
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SCMP Michael Chugani   It’s time to blow bad air out of town How many times have you woken up and put on the news only to be warned that it’s going to be yet another bad pollution day? Too many times? And how many years has this gone on for? Too many years? Does that make you...
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