Monday, June 30, 2008

Taiwan Lantern Festival - Environmental's Virtual Sky Lantern

Candle Lantern
Every year during the Lantern Festival, thousands of people in Taiwan light such lanterns and send them skyward with prayers - a folk ritual dating back centuries that has counterparts on the mainland, as well as in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration this year introduced its "virtual sky lantern" Web site (waste26.epa.gov.tw/skylight), where people can release a digital lantern rather than a real one.The virtual lantern campaign is just the latest front in the battle between the island's environmentalists and other activists.

Source : Taiwan Lantern Festival causes concern for environmentalists