Earth Hour Event 地球一小时活动总结

Hello Green Beijingers!

Thank you for your support for last week’s Greening The Beige Earth Hour event at Club Obiwan on March 28. It was a complete success with many new and familiar faces attending. The night started off with some live music as the lights went dark basking the bar only in candlelight. After everyone talked and got to know each other better, a rousing game of green trivia pub quiz got everyone thinking green. Questions went from easy (which season in Beijing has sandstorms?) to hard (what was the API pollution level in Beijing on Friday March 27?). The winner of the night’s quiz was team Soap Nuts who walked away with a fresh pitcher of sangria. For those of you who don’t know, team Soap Nuts took their name from a small nut that has been used for washing for thousands of years, especially by Native Americans. They are great for the environment and completely biodegradable.

After the quiz the lights came back on and were entrained by some outside fire spinning by a new member of GtB. All in all, it was an excellent and entertaining event for all. This was the first of many events for the GtB 2009. We’re just getting started!

We were thrilled with the new members who came to the event on Saturday and pledged their time and effort for a greener Beijing. After reviewing the GtB mission and previewing plans for our 3rd annual event, we had a chance to break into committee groups and get to know each other. Please welcome the following new folks listed below, along with the committees they'll begin to work on:

点废成绿的朋友们！ 感谢大家来参加支持3月28日地球一小时活动。我们的活动非常成功，新老朋友欢聚一堂。地球一小时活动开始后，我们点起了蜡烛，在现场演奏的音乐中放松，交谈。之后，Carissa Welton，点废成绿的主创人带领大家开展了一次别开生面的“环保主题知识问答”。问题从易到难，比如“北京哪个季节有沙尘暴？”“3月27日的空气指数是多少？”在场几十个朋友分成5组，最后名为“soapnuts”的小队获胜，赢得了活动场地Obiwan提供的新鲜酒水，大多数参与者也都获得了由WWF赞助的“地球一小时”T恤留念。我们与WWF的这次活动仅是点废成绿2009年丰富活动的开始。令人兴奋的是，我们迎来了更多的志愿者与支持者加入，名单如下：

Event Management

Yinghui Zhang-Carraro
Chris Lee
Veronica Ciao
Emily Huang
Yoyo Hu

Public Relations

Sophie Li
Rowland Luo
Ryan Dutcher
Ben Zhang
Chris

Co-Directors

Jancy Fan
Ines Brunn
Carlo
Zee Zhao

Web Mastery

Cao Zhen Hua

Graphic Design

Yang Zhe
Olivia Annani

Translation

Chris (Japanese)
Emma Luo (Chinese)
Lily (Chinese)
Veronica Hernandez

Laura Simei, Julien Chol, and Tanya Davies also came out in time for the Earth Hour Party. Plus Joe, the amazing fire spinner from the Beijing Jugglers & Mr. Tavey Marley, one GtB's most prized unplugged troubadours.

Our very special and surprise guest, Dr. Eva Sternfeld, former director of CESDRRC (China Environment & Sustainable Reference & Research Centre) enlightened us with her presence and acted as the judge for our Green Trivia Game (YAY GO SOAPNUTS!!!). In case you didn't know, Dr. Sternfeld is an expert on water management in China and was the keynote speaker at the 1st Greening the Beige event in May 2007. We were lucky to have her join us for Earth Hour last Saturday, just before her return to the Berlin Institute of Technology.

Thanks again for all those who attended and those who turned off their lights for an hour last Saturday to do their part to raise environmental awareness. If you could not attend the event last week, there is more to come and we hope to see you at a later event.

On Earth Day, April 22, GtB will be having an outdoor BBQ on the rooftop of Obiwan. With the weather warming up, it should be great weather for some food and drinks with your fellow green friends. So, mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information and fliers.

在此要感谢Laura Simei, Julien Chol, and Tanya Davies的参加，感谢Joe为大家带来精彩的火术表演，更有Tavey在熄灯期间为大家现场演出。还要特别感谢Dr. Eva Sternfeld的出席，为我们主持了知识问答活动。

我们下一次的活动定于：4月22日地球日当天在同一场地西海Obiwan屋顶举办烧烤聚会活动。希望大家都来参加地球日的活动。

Again, thanks for attending and we hope to see you all again on Earth Day!

-The Greening The Beige team

For more information, please contact Carissa Welton (carissa@greeningthebeige.org) or Ryan Dutcher (ryan@greeningthebeige.org)

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联系我们：
Carissa Welton (carissa@greeningthebeige.org)
Ryan Dutcher (ryan@greeningthebeige.org)