Green Allies

Black Rock Arts Foundation
http://blackrockarts.org
The Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF) emerged in 2001 as a small but ambitious effort to enrich civic life through art. Its growth since then reflects a spreading awareness of the benefits community-based art projects can bring to a broader society, despite – or even because of – their origins outside the traditional models and institutions associated with artistic expression. Art can thrive outside the walls of museums and galleries, in public places that encourage direct involvement with people who encounter it. BRAF consistently seeks to include an expanding universe of people to participate in creation, presentation, and experience of art.

CESDRRC
http://www.chinaeol.net/cesdrrc
The China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Centre (CESDRRC) opened in March 1998. It is part of the Centre for Environmental Education and Communication (CEEC) of the Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). As China's largest public-sector library and information centre dedicated to the environment and sustainable development it fulfils a crucial educational objective.

The centre's mission is to make environmental knowledge accessible to the general public by providing resources, sharing knowledge, and building international networks. Information is researched and integrated knowledge shared on issues of environmental protection and sustainable development.

Open to public use, the CESDRRC gives access to up-to-date information through a wide range of research services, various media such as electronic data, videos, journals, and books. The centre's services are unique particularly because of the broad variety of information resources available and the mixed international team, which encourages cross-disciplinary research. It is the only facility with the specific responsibility to serve Chinese government institutions together with domestic and international NGO's, educational institutions, academics, international aid organisations and the press.

CESDRRC will contribute a photoraphy exhibit from environmentalist and photographer, Lu Tongjin at Greening the Beige from July 11-15, Club Yu Gong Yi Shan (www.yugongyishan.com).

Common Ground Partnership
www.commonground2008.com
The Common Ground Partnership merges new media, art and philanthropy to focus attention on – and raise money for - environmental projects worldwide.

Common Ground is an online community of artists, designers, galleries, curators, art patrons, art institutions, art consumers and concerned corporate citizens.

The Common Ground 2008 exhibition will premiere in Beijing at the Huan Tie Times Art Museum on November 5 - 15. A touring art exhibition and gala awards presentation every 2 years to coincide with the host city of the Summer and Winter Olympic games.

At the end of the day, Common Ground raises the profile for our corporate partners and their CSR initiatives, while at the same time raises media visibility and financial support for non-profit organizations dedicated to sustainability efforts around the world.

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我们都视同一个地方为『家』，而这个地方就是地球。

无论是我们所呼吸的空气、所喝的水、或所享用的食物，这一切的资源都源于同一个地方：我们的共有之家。我们的共通平面。

共通平面合作团体 融合艺术、数码科技、和媒体来联系对维护环境和防治污染日趋关心的消费者观众群。

共通平面邀请世界各地的艺术家选用他们最熟悉的表达语言，也就是视觉美术和设计，来以戏剧性的方式表达艺术家们对我们共有环境的关心。

艺术是一个能跨越文化差异鸿沟的独特桥梁。艺术是一个能超越任何边界的语言。

通过销售艺术家们以环保为主题的数码艺术、替我们的赞助企业争取媒体焦点、和帮助与我们合作的非营利机构募款， 共通平面 给予艺术家们一个发表心声和获取收入的渠道。

CNature Conservation Association
www.cnature.org
自然景象大自然保护协会（Cnature Conservation Assiociation）是基于香港JointLink基金会的非赢利性民间组织，由香港及大陆众多崇尚自然，热心环保事业的企业家及公益人士共同赞助而成，以宣传大自然的美好和谐，培养和推动人们对自然的保护为理念。
协会包括自然景象网站、出版物、专家顾问组、国际合作组、志愿者招募、活动策划组等不同机构
因为活动内容策划比较丰富，包括在于人们生活相关的很多方面，相对于传统的环保活动，GTB融合了知识性和娱乐性，比较新颖。活动的策划也比较注重人文关怀，在轻松娱乐的氛围下激发人们对环保事业和大自然的关注、求知和探索。

EU-China Biodiversity Program(ECBP)
www.ecbp.cn
The ECBP is EU’s largest overseas biodiversity conservation program. It is a joint initiative between the European Union, the Chinese Ministry of the Commerce, the United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The program was launched in March 2005 and will run for five years. It aims to conserve specific ecosystems in China by strengthening biodiversity management.

Future Generations: The Green Long March
www.futuregenerations.org.cn
FutureGenerations is a non-profit educational institution founded in 1992 that teaches and enables a process of equitable community change that integrates environmental conservation with development. Since the 1980s, FutureGenerations/CHINA has initiated and developed many community-based programs in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2007, FutureGenerations/CHINA partnered with Beijing Forestry University to launch the Green Long March, a youth-based campaign to spread conservation awareness and practices across China and produce lasting change at the community level. Last year, thousands of students marched along 10 routes across China, through 10 ecological zones, 22 provinces and 26 national parks, directly and indirectly impacting an estimated 10 million people, making it the “longest and largest youth conservation movement in China’s history.”
Greening the Beige is a unique event in its length and scope, using art as a medium to bring together innovative people and Beijing- and China-wide environmental efforts. GtB offers FutureGenerations/CHINA a chance to introduce its primary project the Green Long March to a wider audience, bringing the grassroots message to an international stage. In the wake of the Sichuan earthquake, the GLM has re-conceptualized its National Treasures route, which in 2007 traveled through the heart of what is now a disaster zone, to deliver relief aid. GtB will give us an opportunity to bring attention to the programs the Green Long March is developing for youth-in-crisis in the region. All donations and proceeds from the GLM booth at the GtB “green marketplace” sales will go towards this particular project.

Greenpeace China
www.greenpeace.org/china/en/
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment. We believe that the struggle to preserve the future of our planet is not about us. It's about you. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide, and encourages many millions more to take action every day. Greenpeace China was established in Hong Kong in 1997 and has since set up offices in Beijing and Guangzhou. China ’s phenomenal economic growth in the last two decades has brought unprecedented environmental threats to the country and the world. Greenpeace believes that development should not come at the expense of the environment. We are committed to seeking and building a green growth pattern, together with the people of China.
绿色和平存在，因为脆弱的地球需要改变、需要行动。 绿色和平是一个全球性的环保组织，致力于以实际行动推动积极的改变，保护地球环境与世界和平。绿色和平成立于1971年，目前在世界40多个国家和地区设有分部，拥有超过280万名支持者。为了维持公正性和独立性，我们不接受任何政府、企业或政治团体的资助，只接受市民和独立基金的直接捐款。 保护地球的使命不能仅靠绿色和平来完成，唯有结合你的力量, 才能够让地球变得更绿色、更和平。

The Global Environmental Institute (GEI)
www.geichina.org
GEI is a Chinese non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in Beijing, China in 2004. With a central office in Beijing, GEI now has three regional offices in Sichuan, Tibet, and Sri Lanka. Our mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable.

Hua Dan Organization
www.hua-dan.org
Hua Dan is a Beijing based non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling the personal, social and economic empowerment of China’s rural and migrant population through participation in and leadership of inspirational arts-based projects. Hua Dan currently has several projects up and running in the migrant community in Beijing and an Earthquake Relief Project in Sichuan. Each uses the power of participatory theatre as means to help people build self-esteem, enhance human relationships and bring about healing. Since its foundation in 2004 by Hong Kong born British woman, Caroline Watson, Hua Dan has acted as a leader in China for bringing high quality, participatory arts and creative practise into marginalised communities as a tool for positive change at both the individual and societal level. Hua Dan believes their work has significant impact in changing the way that people think about their role in society, giving them the capacity to express their ideas and feelings, collaborate with others and become agents for change in their lives and the lives of others.

The Hutong School
www.hutong-school.com
The Hutong School was founded in April 2005 in response to the growing demand of Western students, graduates and young professionals for internships and Chinese language courses in Beijing. The Hutong School supports Greening the Beige as a positive initiative to help the global battle against environmental threats.

Special thanks to The Hutong School for providing artist, workshop, and fashion show supplies and materials for GtB08!

Kroznot New Media Design
www.kroznot.com
Kroznot is a Beijing based web collective. Their primary aim is to bring people and organizations together in search of new and creative solutions to age old issues. They finance our operations by providing a full range of new media services including 2D and 3D graphics and animation, complete web presence services, online promotion and events. Kroznot Media has provided technical visual support for Greening the Beige for 2 years now...and running!

Mikki's Place
Vegetarian Restaurant
Address: 66 China Art Museum Back Street
City: BeiJing
Phone Number: 13366221228
E-Mail: fozi@sohu.com

Mikki's will demonstrate "green" cooking at Greening the Beige on Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 pm, at Club Yu Gong Yi Shan (www.yugongyishan.com).

Roots & Shoots – Jane Goodall Insitute China
www.jgichina.org
The Jane Goodall Institute China works to advance the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment for all living things; and strives to create healthy ecosystems, promote sustainable livelihoods and nurture new generations of committed, active citizens. In promoting this mission, we focus in China on implementation of the Roots & Shoots Program.
Roots & Shoots is the global youth program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Through Roots & Shoots, young people take positive action to make the world a better place for animals, the environment and for the human community. With tens of thousands of members in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a common desire to help make our world a better place. This powerful, youth-driven network fosters an environment where young people and adults alike come together to share ideas and inspiration, implement successful community service projects and participate in special events and global campaigns. The program is designed to be youth driven and emphasizes the principle that knowledge leads to compassion, which inspires action. Groups select service projects after they have surveyed their communities to better understand local issues and problems.

Seven Horns LLC
www.7horns.com
7 Horns LLC is incorporated in the State of New York as an artist's agency representing international works for distribution through alternative channels.
We run a post-production studio in Beijing where we edit documentary footage, add effects, and translate / subtitle a variety of video for our own concerns and for a number of established clients. We care about each project as we care about the audience; as we care about art. Every media distribution company has a responsibility to their culture and society to maintain the standards of quality set by the artists they represent.

7 Horns helped curate, subtitle, and manage the green film series at GtB in both 2007 and 2008. Seven Horns is also the primary sponsor behind the New Beijing International Movie Week series of events, www.beijingfilmfest.org

Sun Fire Cooking
www.sunfirecooking.com
http://www.tucacas.info/sunfirecooking/SFCnewweb/index.html

Sun Fire Cooking promotes (Chinese made) solar cookers in north-eastern Somalia. It is dedicated to helping protect the region's fragile environment. Wood is the primary cooking fuel in Somalia. Indiscriminate tree cutting for cooking fuel has had a devastating effect leading to severe erosion and the loss of livelihood of the regions nomadic sheep and goat herders.

Sun Fire Cooking has made a short (7 minute) drama, "Charcoal Traffic", to highlight the conflict between charcoal makers and sheep herders. The drama is intended to promote discussion about the environmental issues involved in charcoal making. It is the first drama made in Somalia since the start of the civil war in 1991.

"Charcoal Traffic" will show at Greening the Beige on Wednesday, July 16, 8 pm, at Club Obiwan. www.charcoaltraffic.com
http://www.tucacas.info/sunfirecooking/SFCnewweb/CharcoalTraffic/index.html

Vance Wagner, Vehicle Emission Control Center of Ministry of Environmental Protection, China (VECC-MEP) 中国环境保护部机动车排放物控制中心

Vance is an American engineer who works on clean transportation for China. On July 12, 2008 he will present " Greening the Move: Visions of a Clean Transportation Future for China ". Visit his blog for updates: http://live-from-beijing.blogspot.com/

World Wildlife Fund China
www.wwfchina.org
Since it was founded in 1961, WWF has become one of the world's largest and most effective independent organizations dedicated to the conservation of nature. WWF now operates in around 100 countries, supported by nearly 5,200,000 people worldwide. WWF has been active in China on the conservation of giant panda and its habitats since 1980, when it was invited by Chinese government as the first international NGO to work on nature conservation. In 1996, WWF opened its Beijing office and then set up its presence in eight other cities across priority eco-regions in China. Today, WWF CPO (China Programme Office) has a staff of more than 90 working on conservation programmes, such as species, forests, freshwater and marine, climate and energy, education for sustainable development, wildlife trade and scientific development and international policy.
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by:
● conserving the world's biological diversity
● ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable
● promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

51 SIM
www.51sim.org

51 ="I want" in the Chinese language

SIM = Social Innovation Movement

51SIM is a Corporate Social Responsibility alliance launched by the CSR departments of Beijing New Postcom Equipment Co. Ltd and 51Give. The 51SIM alliance is an open-membership organization that seeks to organize the efforts of like-minded CSR departments for the following goals:

The 51SIM charitable organization aims to help people in poverty-stricken areas by;

1. Promoting innovative education in cooperation with the commonwealth union

2. Raising funds from National and International public enterprises and institutions, social groups and other organizations.

3. Improving teaching standards, classroom conditions and promoting innovative education by encouraging, tutoring and financing teachers and students.

51 SIM will join Greening the Beige on Friday, July 11, at Yu Gong Yi Shan to offer GtB guests special ticket discounts for its charity events July 12 & 13.

(more info at http://www.51sim.org/events.php)