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DIY Toys with your kid: Upcycling “Lai-see”
Reusing old ‘Lai-see’ to create colourful crafts and ornaments. © Josephine Ng Giving out ‘Lai-see’, a.k.a. red packet is no doubt an integral part of Chinese culture. Every Chinese new…
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Sustainable fashion: Responsible design
Eco-friendly fashion designer Anguis Tsui gave Greenpeace Direct Dialogue Campaigners a brand new look, expressing his sustainable fashion conceptual design and manufacturing. Read on to find out more about his…
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DIY Toys with your kid: Christmas craft!
I have a four-year-old at home, and I am very comfortable to let her have some unscheduled downtime. She will feel bored, which is perfect, as she will be actively looking for something to do. Without YouTube, without tablets, you will see how a boring kid sparkles creative ideas with her associative thinking. It is…
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How Greenpeace is pushing Hong Kong to go #PlasticFreeNow
Plastic waste is causing a pollution crisis — overloading landfills and, even worse, poisoning our once pristine coastline. That’s why Greenpeace launched its #PlasticFreeNow campaign in 2016 to achieve reduction…
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Our children deserve a future without air pollution
Under the ashen sky, Lucas grabbed the candy from his mother’s hand and grinned. At the age of six, he is no different from other boys his age. He likes…
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With poor oversight, China’s industrial parks no match for illegal wastewater dumping
Beijing, 21 May 2019 - With rampant illegal dumping, 18 out of 20 state-investigated Chinese provinces suffer from a severe lack of oversight in the industrial parks that were set up to tighten up wastewater management, which undercuts nationwide efforts to control pollution and runoff, problems that are exacerbated by an insufficient criteria framework and…
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 1_ Scientific Theories
For more than 35 years scientists have been advocating that the psychological impact of both Global Warming and the way it is reported needs to be considered when designing campaigns to change people's perceptions, attitudes and behaviours to support climate policy and change to more sustainable life-styles. Such cultural change is a must in order…
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 2-Recommendations 1
If concern alone would trigger climate action, present awareness and concern levels of climate change by the middle class people around the world , would be sufficient to achieve the political and societal changes necessary. However scientists increasingly point to natural cognitive processes like ambivalence, anxieties and denial, triggered by the very concern about global…
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Data from the global plastics waste trade 2016-2018 and the offshore impact of China’s foreign waste import ban
An analysis of import-export data from the top 21 exporters and 21 importers .
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Cash-strapped cities in China greenlight toxic land for development despite pollution: data
Beijing, 23 April 2019 - Chinese cities transfer polluted land sites on quick turnarounds that imperil proper clean-up and treatment, as many municipal governments depend on transfer fees for revenue, and in all made 104.9 billion RMB ($15.6 billion USD) in revenue from the sale of land plots, many former chemical plants, that were identified…
