I don’t know what interested me more, the fact that China has some areas that aren’t polluted or that a top rate Chinese news site doesn’t know how to spell: ” Yellow River presents beautifal autumn scenery “

Doesn’t matter in the long, I suppose … but we can marvel at the beauty that China has to offer. It’s not just about economic development, or destroying the planet’s resources, or even human rights issues. China has some beauty to boast of as well. I mean, how can you go wrong with a name like “Yellow Riiver?” the mother river, China’s second longest.

But then, autumn is pretty everywhere, no? Why not in China, too?

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GP likes it when animals are happy. That means we are getting along. Usually. Someone caught this dragonfly with a smile on his/her face. Did s/he just finish doing … well, never mind. Doesn’t matter, as long as the little bugger is happy, eh?

Mark Manders gets credit for snapping these photos on his camera phone.

it reminds me of the story when some veteran photographers were praising a photograph of a frog.

Clean, crisp, real, alive…among other adjectives were being tossed about.
One of the guys pondered out loud, “I wonder how this photo was taken?”
A little 6-year old girl chimed in, “I just sneaked up on him and went ‘click.’”

Sometimes the best things in life aren’t looked for … they are found.

Other cute animals pictures? Check out the hippos that aren’t afraid of crocs or how a lion cub and a puppy play together.

Beijing took steps during the Olympics and before to reduce traffic.

Readers will remember Beijing’s attempt to be like NYC and the government’s move to get half of their cars off the road.

Well … Beijing’s traffic is back. These two pics show the difference.

What GP wants to know is, why can they tell some cars to stay home some of the time to save some of the pollution and not do this ALL the time?

What’s up with that?

Some 400,000 Beijingers are discussing online whether to keep the ban or not. I don’t even live in Beijing and it makes sense to me to keep as many of the estimated 3.29 million cars off the roads as much as possible.

A national holiday is coming … and more congestion will follow, which obviously will result in …

Anyone knows the answer? We all do, it’s more pollution.

Come on Beijing!

Ever since I’ve heard an electric MINI might be built, I kept my eyes open here and there to be sure I get the latest about it. Today I was reading that the guys at CarMagazine managed to spot it in Munich, Germany, with no exhaust pipes and the words “Hybrid Erprobungsfahrzeug” (Hybrid Test Vehicle) written on the sides and the back.

The big MINI fan in me is really excited to see that BMW is taking their plan to create a new vehicle for city drivers – dubbed Project i – to the next level. Though there isn’t anything official from the Germans, the new electric Mini will most likely be part of that project and will make public debut at the 2008 Los Angeles motor show in November. Can’t wait, can’t wait …

We already reported a couple of months ago that BMW will build the electric MINI but the rumor was that only 500 units will be built. Let’s hope, that BMW’s boss Norbert Reithofer will bring good news in November: mass-production!

Anyone for a battery powered MINI?

Where’s my press pass and camera when I need it? Japanese celebrity, Aya Sugimoto, posed nude for Peta. Yum! What another reason for me to keep using fur. If other females like 40-year old (is she really 40?) will pose nude to stop me, I’m all for doing my part to get them to do their part.

I am not convinced that Sugimoto really gets it.

“When I think of those poor animals, it’s no big deal for me to be naked in an ad. A woman can be gorgeous without real fur.”

Yeah, she gets that part, she is gorgeous, but … when asked about leather products, she said she still continues to buy them because “leather production is different from fur production.”

I guess that means it’s okay to skin an animal but not just give them a haircut. Go figure. No matter, I just want more people like Sugimoto doing their part to stop the rest of the world from using fur. Would anyone get it if they’ll continue to do it?

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Question: What’s cuter than a tiger cub?

Answer: A bunch of tiger cubs.

A tigress in south China named Madonna, gave birth to cubs. The father’s name, and I am not making this up, is Tiger Woods. The cubs were born in captivity by natural means. That is, humans kept their hands out of it. However, after they were born in China, they were taken to South Africa to learn how to survive in the wild. In other words, they needed to learn how to avoid poaching.

It is thought that there are only about 76 South China Tigers left. A farmer in China is standing trial for saying he photographed some of the tigers.

I don’t know if the tigers know it, but they are in some serious trouble if they are depending on Tiger Woods and Madonna to get together to keep their species alive. What do you think?

Man’s best friend, it is believed, can catch the need to yawn from his/her master, too. When someone nearby yawns, for whatever reason, we tend to yawn, too. A researcher at the University of London is claiming that domestic dogs will yawn out of sympathy as well.

Um, don’t these researchers have better things to study than dog yawning habits? Anyway…

Chimps will yawn out of sympathy much like humans do. The researcher became intrigued when his dog yawned right after him. So, he tested his theory on friends and their pups. Sure enough, dogs empathize, too. Dog’s yawned in 72% of incidences compared to 65% of such cases with human-to-human and chimp-to-chimps.

Researchers still aren’t sure why. I say we ask Rover. “Woof, woof!”

In any event, it seems evident that Spot has the ability to empathize with his master. Friends don’t do it, and wives can be way out of touch. But, at least the dog understands.

Is your dog yawning?

Image courtesy of xparxy

Beer maker, Sapporo Breweries, has decided to put the carbon footprint of making its beers on the labels of their suds. The company estimates grain output, fertilizers, transporatation and the production and recycling of the aluminum can itself.

One 350 milliliter can of Black Label beer represents 161 grams of carbon emission says Sapporo Breweries.

Now a person can get drunk and not care about how much they are harming the environment at the same time. “Well, I may be skunk as a drunk, but I’m not planeting the destroy.”

What do you think? A marketing ploy or environmentally friendly policy? My take – marketing.

Sapporo Breweries needs all the attention it can get in Japan’s drunken beer market. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wants to push a carbon footprinting system on all products.

What next? A surgeon general warning -

“Warning. Drinking beer may cause global warming.”

Yeah, I am a creationist and not ashamed to admit it. That is why I love our planet, our home (Earth) and advocate that we be the best stewards of the resources with which we have been entrusted.

I live in the ‘neighborhood’ of the knuckleheaded tree sitters of Berkeley. They are north of the Bay and I am located to the south of the Bay (SF Bay.) That is neither here nor there. Recently, the treesitters voluntarily gave up their perch…to the disappointment? chagrin? of some of their followers, dare we say, worshipers?

Good grief! So, who are these guys lifting up their innermost thoughts to? Who are they hoping will listen? What kind of response are they expecting? No, I can’t read their minds, but I do know this, if the environment is their god, and environmentalism their religion/faith, nothing, and I mean nothing should be able to remove them from it. Nothing will take my faith in the Creator away.

What do you believe in?

It can be expected that Obama would be green with envy as Lynn Forester de Rothschild picked McCain to back in the upcoming election.

McCain told Ohioans he preferred their company to Hollywood celebs. The AP says

“Lynn Forester de Rothschild has said she thinks Democratic nominee Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.

Rothschild is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.”

Obama says, “Ouch!” Or does he? How much difference does the backing from Hollywood and other celebs make anyway?

Shouldn’t Obama and McCain’s positions be about the environment, energy and economy (3E’s), and education, make that 4E’s? These should/must be the deciding factors, not Matt Damon or even Baroness Lynn Forester de Rothschild? If Obama is worried about losing backers from Hollywood, he is worried about the wrong thing. McCain is definitely not courting the elite.

Here at GP, we’ll go with making decisions on the issues.

How about you?