by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 10.25.09

The resounding call for climate action that capped a series of talks in Beijing this week between the US and China didn’t come from top officials, but from a more unusual constituent: young Beijingers.

The city’s celebration of the 350.org International Day of Climate Action began, appropriately, with a parade of bicycles. A sharp contrast to the city’s big National Day parade on October 1st, the band of hundreds of young citizens, expats and NGO workers climbed on their two-wheelers — and in some cases, one-wheelers — and plied their way through the center of the city to a carnival at the Natural History Museum.

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