#ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is the world’s coldest capital city and gets down to 40 degrees below zero. People stay warm by burning coal in heating stoves, but this leads to massive air pollution problems in the city.
UB residents used facebook to organize a protest in Sukhbaatar square December 26th. In response the government repealed taxes on electricity at night. So hopefully more people will be able to afford to heat their homes with electricity, which should help a little. Yay mongol internet! Good job!
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Ulaanbaaatar under snow. Photo by Chiara Goia.
Ulaanbaatar is -18 degrees Celsius (-1 F) as I write this.
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A lot of manholes in Ulaanbaatar, especially on Baga Toiruu, are painted with smiley faces.
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There are some things in this life you have to do. Like sign up to drive to 10,000 miles across the planet in an overloaded compact car and hardly any preparation with a bunch of strangers.
Doesn’t everyone have these urges?
Today, however I found myself…
Various unfinished pages from my sketchbook that I don’t feel like completing
