Green islands; Iceland still in dark ages on its environment stance; been knocked right off the plain here.
GREEN STUFF
GREEN NEWS FROM EUROPE
UK
1. Isle of Wight set to become world’s first ‘eco-island’. Powered 100% by green electricity is the start. Iceland is already 99% powered by geo thermal green power but they still do hunt and kill whales! That puts them in dark ages on environmental stance. Doing eco stuff in one area and destroying nature in another is not the way to do things. Iceland is on my boycott list of places I will not visit due to its stance on whale hunting. As of Nov 1 2007 Iceland has stopped commercial whale killing ONLY due to lack of demand for whale meat. Iceland
CHINA
1. “China to Start Work on Eco-City in New Year. The firm expects construction to start in early 2008 at Dongtan, a development on an island outside Shanghai where all energy will be renewable, no gasoline-fueled cars permitted and farms will grow organic vegetables for local consumption.” That is very impressive to build whole not only powered by green electricity but no gasoline cars and growing organic foods! This is like the really green town! Way to go! China is setting a global example on eco town! Lets see what reality will be when they finish! More of those please as they are sustainable projects that work with nature and can last forever! Yeeeeeah!!! Some proposed pictures of this town.
2. World’s Top Metal Recycling Company to Be Set up in Development District of GZ. This is a huge green step for big metal recycling plant to be set up in GZ. Firstly it will get rid of a lot of metals. Secondly it will produce new metals from old rubbish! Big cities produce so much rubbish that it could probably make, if recycled, over 50% of big cities needs for new material.
DAILY LIFE
Got cheated right off the plain. When got off the plain at Honk Kong someone approach me and offered a service to get me to my destination which is Guang Zhou or I call it big stink hole as the pollution here is as bad as that found in London smog of 1950’s. They got me a car to a coach to GZ. Journey which was meant to last 2 hour but turned out to be over 4 hours as the coach broke on the way there.
TIP: So as a warning if any of you get of the plain at HK and are offered a private shuttle to a coach to your destination, take the train. It will be faster and will get you there on time.
Then in GZ I look for electronics to take back home and found flash SONY 32 GB memory stick for really good price. So got 6 of those but non of them worked so tried to get my money back but here they don’t offer refunds. So they gave me some crap 1gb pmp players they I know I wont sell and will lose on this deal. This was done in one big shop market on the main street. China is filled with cheats that do not hide in dark alleys but are on the main street with goods that don’t work sold openly.
One needs to be on guard most of the time here as Chinese can spot a foreigner for miles and try to do him by default! Have Chinese business men hear of something called reputation? Hmmm with the recent news of Chinese products containing hazardous materials I begin to wonder whats going on here.
- TIP: when shopping:
- 1. test anything you buy before you buy!
- 2. get a receipt.3. when they say 300RMB for something you say 100RMB. Try to cat the price by 3 by default!
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