out of office / into china

sunday night, bike is finally packed – a quick out of office mail...
after a short whirlwind stopover in photoshop skied tokyo, a month full of china is waiting. first I'll be crossing desertification crisis areas on a bike trip from beijing to xilinhot in inner mongolia. then later I'll join kobayashi & co in shanghai and wuxi, for a visit to the site + developers of the new town we’ve been working on during the summer. an essential china chapter to the asian experience...



commercial break – thank you SOM Foundation, kind sponsors of this trip. and in case you wonder why I have developed this sudden interest in desertification crisis areas and great green walls... feel free to check the first (1 2 3 4) pages of my travel proposal, as presented to the foundation.

more on desertification and china’s great green wall
> beijing’s desert storm by ron gluckman
> bruce marcot needs a video or film team... hmmm... anybody interested?
> the wired article, passed on to me by rod eighteen months ago,
that triggered my interest for the green wall
> UN Convention to Combat Desertification (everything on desertification)

live from beijing / xilinhot / shanghai