How Did RespChi Represent on 350 Day of Climate Action?

Photo courtesy of Alex Pasternack.

Our man Mark Hiew and friends John Romankiewicz (of China’s Green Beat) and Alex Pasternack (of Treehugger) called awareness to climate change on 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action on October 24 by rapping at the Roots & Shoots China Summit and Climate Action Carnival in Beijing.

From Treehugger:

…dropping green knowledge was legendary Beijing green rapper Sustainable John, of China’s Green Beat (see an old video here), accompanied by beatbox extraordinaire Huan Bao Panda (huan bao means environmental protection) and yours truly, MC ?uestration. A sampling: “we don’t carbon / we need a car ban! / if we want to go far/ man, we need a good plan.” Yep, we brought the house down, if not CO2 levels.

Hollllaaaa!

(If you’re interested, check out another post I wrote recently for TheCityFix.com about how hip-hop has changed the face of environmental advocacy: “Sustainable Cities and Hip Hop: Creating a New Urban Beat.“)