Archive for October, 2010

Rotaract Speaker Event: Will the Beijing air kill me? Mon, 1 Nov 2010

Oct 28, 2010 No Comments by

Will the Beijing air kill me? Should I go jogging at 4am to have fresh air? Is the Twitter feed from the USA Embassy representative for Beijing’s air quality? Our own Gilbert Van Kerckhove, uber-consultant to the Chinese government for such matters, will confirm / deny (come and find out!) our greatest fears on a [...]

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Looking volunteers for Guang’Ai Hallowe’en Party, Sat 30 Oct

Oct 19, 2010 No Comments by

Rotaract Beijing is looking of volunteers to help run a party to celebrate Hallowe’en with the kids at Guangai orphanage. We’ll be making masks, playing games and doing trick-or-treating with the kids! We’ll be meeting at Tuqiao Station, at the end of the Batong Line at 12:15, on Sat 30 Oct. The party will end around [...]

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Turning trash into art – Monday 18th October 2010

Oct 15, 2010 No Comments by

It’s a fact – there’s too much trash in Beijing and the city’s current waste disposal capacity won’t be able to deal with it in the very near future. How do we prevent a ‘trash crisis’? Greening the Beige, an eco-minded arts collective and not-for-profit community network has a unique solution for dealing with at least [...]

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