New York

I'll be arriving in New York on the 13th. So much for avoiding air pollution.

Sunrise near Beijing

Photo by Jenny Yuen.

mmm not so good

Sunrise in Beijing (from Michael Kanellos, CNet).

China Pollution

The only thing preventing me from hopping onto a plane and making a long-term excursion to China is the extreme pollution problem they have.

And oddly, that's the huge motivation to go as well -- to bring the rampant environmental disaster under control.