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点废成绿（Greening the Beige）是一个讲求环保意识的艺术群体，成立于北京，正在招募活动志愿者和绿色新生力量！

2012年团队职位：

管理团队
负责联络所有的志愿者、活动地点的工作人员、GtB的项目顾问以及群众。管理团队应能帮助协调活动，例如保证确切可靠的资源（讨论会的材料及设备租金的来源等等），并跟踪活动的执行进度。管理者需协调并参加所有的团队规划会议，亲自参与到他们负责的活动中去，并帮助处理活动善后事宜。需在GtB网上发表简短的活动参与有感。中英文能力优秀者优先。

文案翻译团队
主要负责翻译书面文件（中-英或英-中），包括但不局限于活动邀请函、简介、规划、日程表、公告、新闻稿等。在年度GtB系列活动及其它活动中，偶尔会需要口译人员（演讲、活动介绍等）。同时欢迎掌握其他语言的志愿者参与该团队，但必须能够将其与中文互译。该团队应积极在豆瓣、微博、人人等中国社交网站上的宣传推广GtB组织。

创新团队

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which took almost 100,000 lives and whose effects are still being felt today. Hua Dan reflects on their achievements over the past four years. What began as a small effort on the part of Hua Dan to bring some emotional relief and joy back to the region, is still going strong four years later, and has grown to a fully-operational regional office that has so far reached over 7,000 people, through over 250 separate workshops and performances.

Why, after all these years, is Hua Dan still working in the region?

Have you ever wondered what to recycle? Or how recycling helps the environment? This is a huge subject that many people do not care about or think of very often. However, recycling is an important part of today’s world.

Recycling is the processing of waste materials in order to make them reusable. Many products such as aluminum, paper, plastic and so many others can be recycled and reused. Recycling produces several positive effects such as: saving energy, preserving the environment and reducing pollution.

“Time to Ban Styrofoam” is an article in which Paul Rauber shows how the different uses of Styrofoam and other derivations of chlorofluocarbons (CFCs) affect people worldwide. Rauber encourages us to protest against the uses of Styrofoam and ban them, primarily due to the fact that CFCs emitted when manufacturing Styrofoam destroy the ozone layer. These emissions cause the melting of the polar ice caps, which means less fresh water, and worst of all, an increasingly large number of skin cancer cases.

By Mike McGrath, VFP volunteer currently in Japan
Read more about the special Japan earthquake relief projects and what Mike and his fellow international volunteers are accomplishing:
http://tohokurevival.blogspot.com/