NO NONSENSE NOSE (H)AIR POLLUTION CAMPAIGN - CLEAN AIR ASIA

Seven out ten cities in Asia don’t meet the most basic World Health Organization air quality target for particulate pollution (PM10). About 800,000 out of a total 1.3 million people dying prematurely each year from air pollution are from Asia and experts agree that this number will double in the coming years if no effective action is being taken to address urban air pollution in Asia.



Clean Air Asia, the leading regional organization on air quality in Asia has promoted better air quality in the region for the last 10 years and is now launching a grass roots campaign to break through the resignation among large groups of the population that air pollution is a fact of life that can’t be changed.

“People look at air pollution like the weather. You complain about it but you can not solve it”, said Sophie Punte, the Executive Director of Clean Air Asia (Seen in above photo with a BLUE shirt).

Above photo from the opening session of the BAQ 2012 Conference, Sophie Puntes 4th from the left.

 “We see that people start wearing masks or buy air filters for their houses and cars, and move away from heavily polluted areas if they can afford it, in short they are adapting to air pollution rather than doing something about it. We see that there is increasing political will in Asia to address air pollution but without broad based popular support such political will can not succeed” said Sophie Punte, the Executive Director of Clean Air Asia 

Go in and Create your own Self Portrait with a selection of Nose Hair Styles HERE

The Hairy Nose campaign was launched at the three-day Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2012 conference, organized by Clean Air Asia, the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on December 5 in Hong Kong. The campaign which consists of a online video, a micro website where people can check pollution levels in their city and select their own nose hair styles will be rolled out after BAQ 2012 to a number of Asian countries where Clean Air Asia has regional offices and networks including China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

More information HERE

THE CLEAN AIR DRIVE TAGGING PERFORMANCE IN THE STREETS OF HONG KONG

NO GRAFFITI - I saw this sign while getting Police Escort through the streets of Hong Kong doing my TAG...that essentially is "Virtual Graffiti" as performance with GPS as Paint, Electric Cars as Paintbrushes or Spray Cans and the City as Canvas or Wall. However, no arrests were made.

The Police Escort went in front, around and behind the caravan of vehicles, stopping traffic, letting us go through Red Lights and making sure the performance went Smooth.

The Streets in Hong Kong on a Sunday was full of people on their way to Shopping at places like Mega Box and other Mega Outlets for massive amounts of consumption.

Lovely views of mountains surrounding Hong Kong. The Taxi's are old and some of the most polluting vehicles in the streets of the city. However, there are Electric and Hybrid Taxi's on the way onto the streets of Hong Kong in 2013.

A Curved Line of Electric Cars

Underpassing

Hello Mr. Police Man!

Hong Kong Street Side Hipsters

Red and Blue Lights

The End - Back into the Zero Carbon Building Area

The Electric Vehicles 

100% Electric!

RH 853

One of the over 150 Bikers that did the Performance

The CO2 Green Drive GPS App that Painted the AIR Tag, created by Henrik Gilvad AKA The Gilvader

The Final Version of the AIR Tag - A Virtual Graffiti Performance!

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Biker Team

This is Us!

Thanks to Yuling Jia (above with Yrs Truly) and her wonderful Clean Air Network Team for making it all happen!

THE HONG KONG CLEAN AIR DRIVE - PRE-EVENT AND EXHIBITION

Partners during the launch of the Clean Air Drive at the Zero Carbon Building in Kowloon. 

Speakers included Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Mr. Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen (Danish Artist of CO2 Green Drive/Clean Air Drive, ORANGE), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia), Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network). Jørgen Møller, who is CO2 Green Drive's Asian Project Manager can also be seen 5th man from the right, holding a video camera.

To the RIGHT of Yrs Truly,  Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia) along with Celebrity Hong Kong Pop Stars and such.

To the LEFT of Yrs Truly Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network) and Hong Kong's Olympic Medal winner in Bicycling.

Wonderful speech by brilliant Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong) who told about Hong Kong's plans to improve the their carbon footprint and implementation of Electric Cars in general.

Seating Arrangements

Blue Emissions

The LEAF EV from Hong Kong Airport

The LEAF EV from Cathay Pacific

The MIEV from Hong Kong Electric

The MIEV in green, blue, yellow and white.

"Be the World's Greenest Airport" - not sure what it means, but it is a good intention.

The Electric MC from Brammo

Proud Father taking snaps of daughter on a Electric MC.

Reminded me of my own daughter on the other side of the world and a photo I took of her in connection to the Roskilde version of the project in 2010. 

The Zero Carbon Building is right next to the Gigantic Mega Box, that also included an IKEA, where brunch was had, including Swedish Meatballs. The above image is taken from Mega Box in the morning before the event started. See image above this, for the YELLOW IKEA branded Electric Car that can be seen in the streets of Copenhagen.

The Screen that the AIR Tag was shown on was placed in a BLUE tent

The Inflatable START and END sign with all the collaborators logos on.

See next post for The DRIVE photos.

CLEAN AIR DRIVE IN HONG KONG COULD WITH CAN

Here is a quick update from Hong Kong about the successful "Clean Air Drive" held on December 2nd 2012.
All photos by Clean Air Network. I will give another update when I am back in Copenhagen with my own photos.

Above: Partners during the launch of the Clean Air Drive at the Zero Carbon Building in Kowloon.
Speakers included Ms. Christine Loh (Undersecretary for Environment, Hong Kong), Mr. Christopher To (Executive Director of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council), Mr. Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen (Danish Artist of CO2 Green Drive/Clean Air Drive), Ms. Sophie Punte (Executive Director, Clean Air Asia), Paul Miles (Nissan General Manager, NGL Communications, China, Asia and Oceania) and Mr. Stephen Wong (Chairman of Clean Air Network)

Yrs Truly giving a speech.

Getting ready for the AIR Drive - Electric MC's and some Electric LEAF's

The Bikes getting ready and downloading the CO2 Green Drive APP so they can PAINT the AIR.

The LEAF back again after the AIR Drive

The Electric MC's Back.

...and the Bikes Back!

The route of the Clean Air Drive is shown in this LED display at the Zero Carbon Building. Photo shows Sophie Punte, Glynda Bathan and Chee-Anne Rono of Clean Air Asia, Dr. Wing-tat Hung of the Clean Air Asia Partnership Council and Yuling Jia of Clean Air Network Hong Kong.

A Happy Orange Artist, after the performance!