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 - HONG KONG

Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center (CAI-Asia) and Clean Air Network (CAN) in Hong Kong’s plans to produce the CO2 Green Drive project in connection with the Better Air Quality 2012 (BAQ) Conference held in Hong Kong on 5-7 December 2012.

So, instead of making a "CO2" tag, an "AIR" tag has been produced.
Read more about the event that is called "Clean Air Drive" on the official BAQ page HERE

The conference is co-organized by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (above image), in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and World Bank.

BAQ 2012 (www.baq2012.org) is the leading event on air quality in Asia, covering transport, energy, industry and climate change, with a particular emphasis on government policies and measures.

The above image is of Hong Kong's "Zero Carbon Building", where the Tagging Performance will start. See more HERE

Policy makers and practitioners meet at BAQ to network, learn and share experiences. Past BAQs have proven to influence policies, initiate new projects and establish partnerships. The BAQ 2012 theme is “Growing Cities, Healthy Cities” reflecting the challenge of creating livable cities with blue skies and a low carbon footprint in the face of increasing urbanization in Asia, and ensuring that people’s health is no longer affected by poor air quality.

Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen will also hold a presentation about CO2 Green Drive at  the Danish Exhibition Area’s “Speakers Corner” on December 6th at 15.50, in connection to the Hong Kong Business of Design Week (HKBoDW)