Amidst the controversy, media attention and calls for boycotts, Beijing continues to try to convince the world that the 2008 Summer Olympics will earn the title, the “Green Olympics.” According to the Seattle Time’s Daniel Beekman who is Blogging Beijing:
A slew of ambitious ‘green’ campaigns have indisputably transformed the city and garnered international attention.
In 2005, BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad) signed a UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) agreement – pledging to curb air, water and noise pollution.
Since then, the city has scrapped coal-burning furnaces, rolled out ‘green’ buses, booted dirty factories and capped auto …read more