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Raising Awareness - Monday, October 26, 2009 1:25 - 0 Comments
With Words, Hip Hop and Hundreds of Bicycles, Beijing’s Youth Call for Climate Action
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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