点废成绿 Greening the Beige (GtB) is an eco-minded arts collective and not-for-profit community network dedicated to nurturing awareness of environmental issues. 点废成绿 GtB promotes and celebrates earth friendly artists and organizations in Beijing.
"Why are we being forced to choose between the economy and the environment? We tend to forget that without an environment we would not have an economy, as everything we consume and I mean everything comes from our environment."
~ Franke James (contemporary artist, photographer, writer)
Beijing's landfills are getting full fast! Reduce the "trash" you throw away by purchasing products with minimal packaging. Look for reusable, recyclable, and biodegrable items and remember to carry your reusable shopping bags!
DESERT DANCE
Saturday, July 18th
10 pm – 4am
沙漠旋律
7月18日（星期六）
22:00 - 4:00
Stomp your feet, clap your hands, and let it rain, rain, rain on Beijing! Next year the population of China’s capital is projected to reach an overwhelming 17 million, bringing the water shortage issue to a critical stage in 2010.
As the sands of time are literally closing in on our city, Greening the Beige is launching a ceremonial call to action that requires your rhythm. Long before the Beijing Weather Modification Office was cloud seeding, dancing people would gather together to invoke the mercy of the skies and quench the earth’s thirst.
On July 18, 2009, Greening the Beige invites you to dance for desert rain in a BENEFIT WITHOUT BORDERS (http://www.benefitwithoutborders.com) and find out what’s going on with water management in Beijing.
跺跺你的脚，拍拍你的手，快点下雨吧，快点下雨吧，让北京快点下雨吧！
2010年，随着中国人口增长到17亿，中国的首都将达到前所未有的缺水时期。在北京市人工影响天气办公室进行人工降雨之前，众多的舞者们将聚集到一起祈求上天快为我们干渴的地球浇下一些雨水。
我们的城市正一天天被沙漠逼近，‘点废成绿’GtB 将要举行一个仪式来唤醒您快快行动起来。为珍贵的雨水而翩翩起舞，并了解一下北京的水管理现状：
Film: “The Lessons of the Loess Plateau”
Environmental Education Media Project of China
http://www.earthshope.org/
DJ Line-Up:
音乐DJ等 待定:
22:00 – 23:00 Patrick Yu (BLINK EVENTS)
23:00 – 1:00 Mr. Soon (DeepSpaceMafia/White Rabbit Club)
1:00 – 2:00 Blackie & MC Terra D (The Syndicate)
2:00 – 4:00 Mickey Zhang (Yen/o2culture)
Midnight Performance - Beijing Bellydancers
12:00 表演 - 北京肚皮舞
After Midnight Performance - The Talented Jess Meider
(@ 1:30 - 2:00 AM)
VJ/Video Installation:
Electric Shadows
Photography Displays/
Silent Auction Works:
Potted Harmony
Oak Taylor-Smith
http://www.thiscityart.org
The Desert Next Door
Kjell Gryspeert
SUPPORT CONTRIBUTION: 50 RMB at the entrance
门票：50元
LOCATION:
No. 4 Zhangwang Hutong (opposite Bed Bar, look for the golden gate entrance), Jiu Gulou Dajie, 北京市东城区旧鼓楼大街张旺胡同4号
Raining down the issues…
"Today there is a divide between 3.5 billion people who have access to tap water and the 3 other billion who have no access to tap water - either at home or in the immediate vicinity. So there is a big divide in the world between those who benefit from the public water service and those who don't benefit from it. In the past 15 years, we know that the private sector has provided access to water to more than 25 million people, mostly poor people. So the issue today is: When do we want that all people get safe and reliable access to water? This is the main issue. For those people, the most important thing is to get access to water."
-- Gerhard Payen of The International Federation of Private Water Operators.
“Some 300 million people living in rural areas, or nearly a quarter of China's population of 1.3 billion, don't have access to safe drinking water. And among more than 600 Chinese cities, 400 are facing water shortages, including 100 that may see serious shortages,”
-- Ma Jun, director of the Beijing-based Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs and author of China's Water Crisis.
“A more certain, ecologically sound solution can be found in alternative agricultural practices and cropping systems. Reducing the winter wheat production by a relatively small acreage, combined with the increased use of water-saving irrigation systems, can more than replace the effectively usable 10 × 109 m3 of water that the engineering construction project would transport via aqueducts. The recommended alternative cropping system would solve the water shortage problem immediately. This alternative would enable the government to allocate funds where they are more needed, such as to the clean-up of extensively polluted rivers and to ecological restoration, which bears on the sustainability of agriculture and food supply in China.”
-- Geng S.; Zhou Y.; Zhang M.; Smallwood K.S. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, May 2001
“The government encourages the research, development and application of new technologies, new techniques and key facilities for water conservation. It impels measures for water conservation, develops water conserving industry, agriculture and services and constructs water conserving cities and societies.”
-- National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China
