A couple weeks ago, Charlie at CLEB put together his piece Let there be (highly-efficient impact fluorescent) light in 2009, where he wrote:
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the planner, said it would be working in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and the Global Environment Fund on a project to phase out incandescent lamps and promote green lighting to save energy.
and while, I am not sure if China is ready for the LEDs that Yasuhiro Akama has to offer, I wonder what China’s citizens would learn from wearing around his Air Scale (seen in pictures here) which:
You can clip it on to your baseball hat if you are a hipster. Then, if you also have weak lungs, you can pay attention to the lights it emmits: Red light means dirty air, White light means “normal condition” air, Green light means that the air is clean.