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4. Organize and mobilize the public to participate in Green Action
In order to improve the air quality in Beijing, from 2004 to 2006, led by Beijing Municipal Bureau of
Environmental Protection, BEPF and The Capital Group co-carried out the activity of “the capital
people participate in blue sky action”. Through the dust pollution control and prevention pilot project
in 669 communities of 108 curbsides in the urban 8 districts, lots of good experiences and practices in
organizing public to participate in Green Action were explored.
Dacheng community of Fengsheng curbside in West district is one of the pilots of dust pollution
prevention and control. The residents there created many experiences and method in preventing and
control dust from little things around them, for example: sprinkle streets with the “secondary” water left
by washing vegetables and laundries, afforest the yard and pave the bared land, keep bagged furnishing
garbage at appointed place and clean it at regular time, clean the yard willingly, etc. From all of these little
things, the environment is improved greatly. In Huajia primary school which is located in this area, the rain
water drained from the buildings and playground is collected to water flowers and sprinkle ground after
filtered. The practice and experience of preventing and controlling dust pollution in Dascheng Community
is approved by the leaders of SEPA, leaders of Environmental Protection Committee of NPC, ever mayor
Liu Qi.
Through the activity of “the capital people participate in blue sky action”, the people began to know the
danger of dust pollution, the importance of preventing and control dust pollution and how to do it. They
realize that everyone is both the endangered one and the producer of dust pollution, and everyone has
the responsibility of preventing and controlling dust pollution, so it is important for all of the people to
participate in the actions and to contribute efforts for constructing clean and beautiful environment.
From 2006 to 2007, BEPF, together with Beijing Gas Group, co-hosted the activity of “participate in the
action of saving energy and construct green Beijing”. A lot of achievements were gained in improving
the awareness of saving energy among the public by going down to communities to disseminate the
knowledge of saving energy and reducing pollution, summarizing and popularizing the measures of
saving energy and implementing pilot projects of saving energy for gas heating furnace.
Now, more and more people realize that environmental protection is everyone’s responsibility, and
everyone can benefit from participation in environmental protection.
Though BEPF has done a lot in disseminating the concept of Green Olympic and organizing and
mobilizing the public to participate in Green Action, there are still differences with the needs of society
and the expectation of the public, and there is a long way to go. In future, we will continuously contribute
our efforts and improve our work to organize and mobilize more people to join us in green action, for
leaving precious environment heritage for the coming generations, for realizing the strategic conceive of
“New Beijing, New Olympic”, for constructing resources-saving and environment-friendly society.
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