China cleaning up Beijing in 2010

Prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics the Chinese government had agreed to clean-up Beijing for a 'safe' and 'healthy' Olympic games. They drew out several plans on how they can modernise Beijing in a such short amount of time.
One plan was to have every Beijing river and lake clean and pollution free by 2010. However with 90% of China's rivers and lakes being polluted, this was a very ambitious goal. Making the matter worse, in Beijing 1.28 billion tonnes of sewage are produced each year polluting 55% of the major waterway systems.The government planned that by the year of 2010 50% of the water used in downtown Beijing will be recycled with 99% of downtown Beijing's rubbish being properly processed.

Before the Olympic Games began China planned to clean-up the amjority of its air pollution. They cut down on many of the factories in use such as Pepsi and Coca Cola's Beijing factories. They removed 60,000 taxi's and buses off the streets and invested billions in a project called cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is weather modification where they can almost control the weather by planting substances into the cloud leading to reduced pollution around the area it is used in. Beijing used the worlds biggest Cloud Seeding system, and fired Iodide sticks into the sky above Beijing inducing artificial snowfall which ended a 4 month drought in Beijing. 

Examples of Cyber Activism

Unhindered by Geographical constraints and the media's interest, Cyber-Activism has eroded the boundaries within local communities. With George Bush pulling USA out of the Kyoto Protocol this led to GreenPeace creating Cyber-Activism against all the countries who opposed the Kyoto Protocol and supported the countries which were for it.
GreenPeace set this up so activists could learn about what the countries are doing about global warming and environmental issues. 
Developer of Greenpeace's new Cyber Centre, international new media campaigner Kevin Jardine said that cyberactivism was about building a global community of resistance to environmental destruction. "The centre provides a cyberactivist community where people representing over 170 countries and territories can share ideas and participate in environmental actions such as the recent Corporate 100 actions against global warming," he said.
  

London's Reaction to the Great Stink and the Great Smog

In the 1858 London's sewer systems led straight out into the River Thames, almost every home had their toilet's hooked up to the River and all of the cities waste would end up in the river going out to sea. However after intense summer heat this almost 'boiled' the river making a great stink. The smell was unbearable for most Londoners with some going miles out of their way to cross the river, the smell became so bad that people were able to smell it whilst walking through the streets of London making people feel very sick and even sometimes fall ill.
This led to the city designing new sewer systems transforming the London sewers with new pipes leading out to the Thames Estuary or to processing factories just outside the city.

In the winter of 1952, cold weather led to the people burning dirty coal in their chimney's as a way of heating their homes, with the winds being light the air near the ground was moist making it perfect conditions for radiation fog. On the 5th of december a thick fog settled over London bringing many dangerous side-affects. For the next 114 hours the green 'pea soup' fog hung over London interrupting many services within the city. The sulphar dioxide reacted within the smog creating in effect a very intense form of acid rain. 
In the first week 4,000 deaths were reported due to the inhalation of smog, 8,000 death followed in the next two months summing up the total deaths of the smog to 12,000 people.