Carbonstop employees compete to adopt a green lifestyle

Stepping up: A woman going for an evening walk in Beijing. Carbonstop encourages its employees to walk more by launching a carbon account app. — Bloomberg

BEIJING: Walking more than 11 kms to work for almost two hours sounds crazy, but that was what Zhang Mingyao did for three successive days.

The 26-year-old coder from Carbonstop, a provider of carbon management software and consulting services here, thought the trek would help him outpace his colleagues in the number of daily steps taken.