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1. Go down to the grass-root units to make dissemination
1. Go down to the communities
Since Beijing won the host right for the 2008 Olympic, to host a remarkable Olympic Games become a
strong wish of all the citizens and to advocate green civilization and green life style become a new fashion
for all the people. In order to meet the needs of the public, the Beijing Green Olympic Green Action
teach-in group members go down to communities with everyone’s major and strong point to explain
the knowledge of preventing and controlling air pollution, afforesting and beautifying the environment,
sorting and recycling the garbage, saving resources and energy, ensuring food safety and implementing
sustainable development, etc. They mobilize the public to participate Green Action from little things
around them so that they can contribute their efforts to the construction of Green Beijing and successfully
host the Green Olympic.
In the past two years, in the activity of “Old community, new green” that hosted by Ocean Real Estate
Company, the teach-in group members didn’t not only go down to the community, but also gave advices
as the environmental consultant. They made site investigations, guided the residents to garden with
native plant and flower species, organized the residents to participate in the action of saving water
and preventing and controlling dust pollution, all these had pushed the development of green action
in communities. Take Bajiao curbside in Shijingshan district as an example, it had an area of 5,26 km 2
and the population there is 99,000. The resident commission raised people’s environmental protection
awareness and aroused their passion to participate in environmental protection by environmental
protection lectures, green community forums, transfer experiences, etc. Residents there organized a
volunteer team on environmental protection. The volunteer team called the masses to raise green belt
on their own initiative. Experts are invited to deliver landscape knowledge and conduct trainings on
planting native flowers and plants. Residents are taught to cultivate the plants with organic fertilizer that
transferred from fallen leaves, which can not only reduce the cost on landscape, but also improve the
survival rate. Residents irrigate the plants with collected rain water that piped to the green belts; they are
organized to collect white garbage and to clean wastes on the green belts. From all of these activities,
lots of “Green families” came to the fore. Only in 2006, the environmental protection volunteer team in
Bajiao curbside explored 35,000 km 2 of isolated land and planted over 100 species of flowers and plants,
set up over 900 meters of bamboo fence for the gardens and green belts, trimmed over 100 trees and
spread 1,500kg organic fertilizer and saved nearly 1,000 ton water.
2. Go down to schools
In order to meet the needs that “Environmental protection should be started from kids”, the teach-in
group members developed various kinds of disseminations aimed at different ages of children. For
example, giving guidance and explanation on environmental protection cooperated with series of contest,
such as the drawing contest of “Green dream, colorful Olympic” in the nationwide primary and middle
schools, the speech contest of “love our mother-the earth” among the primary school students in Beijing,
the Chinese-English bilingual speech contest of “My participation in Green Olympic” among the middle
school students, the English speech contest of science and technology innovation on environmental
protection, the activity of “Green Olympic Action among the Young Pioneers: keeping one bottle of
water – the design for saving water post”. The lively and vivid explanation on environmental protection
among the kindergarten kids and teachers improved the kid’s awareness and passion to environmental
protection. Moreover, members of the teach-in group are invited to the nationwide primary and middle
school students’ summer camps to give special explanations on “science and technology creative
innovation in environmental protection” and “Green Olympic and environmental moral”, from which
the concept of Green Olympic are delivered to the students who are guided to participate in the Green
Action.
Aimed at the characteristic of university students, the teach-in group members carried out interact and
heuristic explanations that aroused the students’ passion of participation. In past years, the teach-in
group had cooperated with the China Communist Youth League Beijing Committee and the Environment
Department of Beijing Olympic Organization Committee to host the DV contest of “give free rein to your
imagination on the Olympic and make green action in the campus” among the universities in Beijing.
They had also cooperated with Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Education Centre and the
environmental protection organizations of universities to carry out activities such as “Green Olympic
Green Action” and creating green campus action, giving series of lectures on “concept of Green Olympic”
and “participate in Green Olympic” to enlighten and guide the university students to contribute their
efforts to the Green Olympic. The universities in Beijing organized volunteer students to participate public
welfare activities on environmental protection, such as planting trees, gardening campus, etc.
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