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!
Happy Friday!
Earlier this year, one of GtB's big antiwaste heroes and favorite storytellers, Annie Leonard, was interviewed by Brian Frank for Bitch Magazine.
The feature was published just at the release of "The Story of Bottled Water", her latest in a series of digestable, short, animated films that break-down and illustrate the perpetuated waste-cycle of [North American] consumer culture.
For anyone looking for inspiration or merely just trying to get a better understanding about their role in the garbage-cycle and what to do about it, The Story of Stuff project is full of facts and guidance. According to Ms. Big Stuff, the secret to being an [environmental] action hero is to think and pursue fearlessly outside of the box:
"A lot of environmentalists are still stuck trying to choose between different items on a menu that someone else has set. The real power is not choosing an item on the menu, but deciding what's on the menu. Of all the heroes I have, none would have rallied around something that was a little bit better than terrible."
