Coronavirus is a chance to reshape how we travel
Patrick Bernard/Abacapress.com/Reuters / 18 Dec 2020
As the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, many people’s thoughts have turned to holidays. How many of us feel for a break? But what sort of break?
Months of lockdowns and isolation, not to mention deaths of loved ones and a new-found respect for healthcare workers, have triggered serious reflection on the ways in which the world has been functioning.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the tourism sector. A healthy tourism industry is essential for the global economy, culture and environment, but in the past, it has also done harm.
By Li Nan · 2019-01-10 · Source: NO. 3 JANUARY 17, 2019
The Xiamen Marathon in southeast China s Fujian Province draws 28,208 participants on January 6 (COURTESY PHOTO)
Ye Wei has been off to a running start in 2019, literally. The 35-year-old, who works at a state-owned enterprise (SOE), came 12th among Chinese runners at the 2019 Xiamen Marathon on January 6, clocking his personal best of 2:29. It showed how much his physical fitness has improved. The first time he took part in 2003, he couldn t even finish the run. I reached the end by taking the aid car, Ye said. But 16 years of persistence has made him the best marathoner in Xiamen, the coastal city in southeast China s Fujian Province. Ye attributed his improved performance to persistent training and a newly introduced system in the marathon, the wave start. It is a staggered start in which the top-seeded runners get off first, with the rest following in two waves. The wave start allowed me to run with pe
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Pledge to protect those around us and our environment by wearing reusable face masks.
While masks are essential for stopping the spread of Covid-19, the issue of disposable masks could be disastrous for our environment.
According to Iberdrola, there are alternatives to the disposable mask, but most people in the world are using masks made of TNT, which are practical and cheap, but which are not designed to be washed.
A disposable mask is made of non woven fabric (TNT), which is non toxic, but takes 400 to 450 years to break down. Because of the global increase in use, health authorities and environmentalists are concerned about this new type of pollution. Land and ocean ecosystems could be threatened by this pollution if we do not tackle this issue now.