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)
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Beijing Film Screening Premiere & Dinner Event
北京电影放映首映&晚宴
Simultaneously launching on the BBC, Greening the Beige is proud to present this exclusive film premiere from the Environmental Education Media Project: HOPE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
“Hope in a Changing Climate,” is a video documentary that will be aired globally by the BBC World on November 27, 2009 and screened at the climate change summit in Copenhagen from December 7 - 18, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, The World Bank, IUCN and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture.
The film documents and dramatically demonstrates how large-scale ecosystem restoration can stabilize the changing climate, catalyze sustainable agriculture, and significantly reduce poverty.
"Hope in a Changing Climate" was shot in China Shaanxi province, Ethiopia and Rwanda in September/October 2009. The U.S. part is based on archives.
It is a story told on location of success and solution in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Hope in a Changing Climate, 2009
(30 mins, English Only)
Directed by Jeremy Bristow (BBC natural History Unit); presented and co-written by John Liu (Environmental Education Media Project, Beijing).
Guest Panelists:
Peter Harris - www.hotglobe.org
John Moore, Chief Scientist, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science
Peter Sallade - New Beijing International Film Fest
Presented in cooperation with the Environmental Education Media Project (www.eempc.org)
Please check the Buffet Dinner Menu.
DATE: Friday, November 27
::SCHEDULE::
8:00 - 9:00pm Southwestern Chinese Fusion Buffet
9:00 - 9:30pm Film Screening Premiere
9:30 - 10:30pm Panel Feedback Discussion
VENUE: Cai Houche, No. 46 Fangjia Hutong方家胡同46号, between Andingmen and Yonghegong Dajie, tel 159 1101 3992
PRICE: 80 RMB buffet dinner including premiere film screening (proceeds benefit the Environmental Education Media Project), limited space available, reservations encouraged by emailing info@greeningthebeige.org
时间：晚上8-11点
地点：方家胡同46号, Cai Houche，安定门和雍和宫大街之间
电话159 1101 3992
门票：80元 晚餐和观看影片，座位有限，建议提前网上预定info@greeningthebeige.org
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Here's what I just told The China Daily:
"Greening the Beige was created in 2007 because I felt overwhelmed by the world's various pollution problems and yet inspired by the many creative solutions I was beginning to discover in Beijing focused on building a more sustainable environment. The Environmental Education Media Project is one such organization that I learned about as I was beginning GtB. This year we have begun to collaborate on screening events with the EEMP, and it has been an honor for GtB to share the good works documented in their films. The ultimate goal of GtB is to seek out, celebrate, and share with Beijing's "green" community all of the positive, creative solutions to environmental problems we come across. The premiere screening of "Hope In a Changing Climate" does just that. And I'm very excited to host one of the exclusive live screenings in Beijing on the 27th."
..............................garbage in, garbage out