Blog Tag - sustainability

24 Things I Stopped Buying To Go Zero Waste
'Going Zero Waste', living a life without generating any trash at all sounds like an impossible concept. Yet hundreds and thousands of zero-wasters...
Your Guide to a Sustainable Wardrobe in Beijing
About a month ago, I posted a story to Instagram, announcing that I'd be giving away my unwanted clothes since they had been sitting untouched in my...
R Naked Ambition: Award Winning Nut Butter Moguls Talk Meeting Jack Ma, and Running Their Own Factory
Beijing is full of stories of plucky young entrepreneurs who move to the city for one reason, then through a combination of fate and good timing,...
Save Your Rambos With These Easy Homemade Cleaners
Household items such as baking soda and vinegar work as effectively as shop-bought cleaners, if not more so, and cost next to nothing. You can even...
Reduce Your Environmental Impact with These Zero Waste Travel Tips
Between low-cost airlines and high-speed trains, it's never been easier to travel all four corners of the globe. But while exploring and enriching...
Keep Calm and Upcycle: Repurpose, Reuse, Rejoice!
It’s amazing what beauty you can find in the old, abandoned, and forgotten. In a world where sustainable living is increasingly on the agenda, small...
No Time to Waste: beijingkids’ March 2019 Sustainability Issue Hits Stands this Week!
As we enter into a very precarious time for our planet, where all of our past mistakes regarding the environment are coming home to roost, it’s hard...
Ethical Makers: Buying Can Be Giving This Christmas
With the mad rush to make sure every box is ticked on our Christmas gift list this year, it’s easy to forget how we might be able to shop more...
Beicology: Have Environmentally Friendly Fun at Farm to Neighbors' Zero Waste Festival, Nov 26
It might have seemed like a minor thing to many of us, perhaps even insignificant – plastic bags being doled out by vendors at the Farm to Neighbors...
Beicology: “Bamboo is not just panda food… it can be a really important answer to a number of global challenges.” Says Rep at China's First Intergovernmental Organization on 20th Anniversary
Though pandas gnaw on it, and most of us humans only consider it to be an abundant-in-Asia plant without giving it much more thought, bamboo actually...
Gung Ho! Becomes Third Company in China to Receive B Corp Certification
Gung Ho! Pizza has always been at the forefront of sustainable business practices in Beijing, whether it's through organizing a huge Earth Day...