Fresh Air How to Keep Your Family Safe (And Happy) on High AQI Days
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March 2016 Plus: Ecolo- gy-themed craft, healthy dining, and the best purifiers, masks, and monitors Airing Your Problems When gray skies make you feel blue Blue Sky Thinking Clean air policies at international schools Fresh Air How to keep your family safe (and happy) on high AQI days MARCH 2016 CONTENTS 18 24 30 LIVING DINING 11 Beckoned to Beijing 24 Dining Out A chat with Plastered 8’s Dominic Johnson-Hill Purified air and healthy eats at Obentos Liangmaqiao 12 Noticeboard 26 Food for Thought News and announcements from around town The Lyana-Suryadi family share their recipe for Cap Cay 14 Talking Shop ReVived Design’s environmentally-friendly products PLAYING 15 Birthday Bash 28 Playing Inside Enjoy a day down on the farm with Too Too Indoor video games for polluted days 15 Shopping Roundup 30 Maker’s Corner The best air purifiers, masks, and indoor AQI monitors Global solutions at 3e 18 Indulge LEARNING Emily Kara goes deep at Xiaomi Salon 32 Blue Sky Thinking HEALTH Air pollution policies at international schools 20 The Natural Path 36 When I Grow Up Melissa Rodriguez advocates for detoxification Sebastian Chrobok CEO of Evoke Motorcyles speaks to BSB Shunyi students 21 Mind Over Matter Dr. Dorothy Dexter puts air pollution in perspective 38 Blank Canvas Artwork from ISB 22 Airing Your Problems Addressing the mental health effects of pollution MARCH 2016 CONTENTS 36 48 10 40 Book Nook ESSENTIALS Green reads from librarians at Keystone Academy and CISB 7 Editor’s Note 41 Tech Corner 8 March Events Teacher recommended environmental technology 10 New Arrivals 58 The Circuit 42 Meet the Teacher Happenings in Beijing’s international family scene Meet BSB Shunyi’s Kaye MacIver 64 Family Favorites The Emerich family tells us about their Beijing favorites PARENTING 44 The Echo Chamber Ember Swift reconsiders an old enemy ON THE COVER: 45 Beijing Baba We meet Polish-Chinese Lukasz Wang (age Andrew Killeen introduces his kids to tech-free playtime 6) at the end of a long day: soccer practice followed school. Nevertheless he is excited to jump on the trampoline we’ve arranged FEATURES for today’s shoot. Lukasz lives in Capital Paradise in Shunyi, along with mom Kasia 48 Breathless in Beijing Baran, director of marketing and commu- Two families share their air pollution policies and procedures nications at Dulwich College Beijing (where he attends school), dad Zian Wang, writer 52 Breathe Deep and curator, and little brother Stefan (18 Guaranteeing the freshest air inside your home months). He tells us that on low-AQI days he likes to ride his bicycle, play soccer, and 54 Airpocalypse Now run around. 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Ireland has in profusion to protect your home from pollution, and on p.32 we speak to staff what Beijing so badly needs: generous living space and abundant, from the British School of Beijing (Shunyi), International Montessori unadulterated natural resources. And yet I, like you, am choosing to School of Beijing, and Canadian International School of Beijing about live here and not there. Beijing continues to provoke and amuse me, their school’s air pollution policies. Buy everything you require from our and I plan to call it home for many more years. Each of us has made roundup of purifiers, masks, and monitors on p.15. Not every restau- a nest, however temporary, here in Beijing. And to be fair, since my rant in Beijing is filtered, but the new Obentos branch at Liangmaqiao return at least, the smog has generally been behaving itself. offers filtered air alongside healthy kid-friendly eats (p.24). And for However, despite the blue sky days there’s no point living denial or days when the kids are trapped indoors, check out our roundup of pretending there isn’t an ongoing air pollution problem here.