China’s Green Beat, is a neat bilingual blog I stumbled upon the other day, written by John Romankiewicz, an American Fulbright scholar currently living in Beijing, and Zhao Xiangyu, a Chinese citizen from Heilongjiang, a province in the northern part of the country. Check out the above video for a comical take on serious challenge: motorization in the Chinese capital.

Read more about Beijing’s metro, BRT system, Olympic bid, and weather problems.

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Photo from Yotatech.

Well, maybe not. Last year Ikea announced a plan to cut energy use by 25% by 2012. So far it has been working on this goal by, among other things, introducing a fleet of hybrids to its Spanish and UK operations. Unfortunately, the move to hybrids will not include its delivery vehicles, but just its car fleet.

So for any Ikea driver who has lost the assembly instructions, we’ve included the helpful image and assembly instructions above.

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