FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL

SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER PLANET

June 2010 - The China Green Tour

BeiJinG, ShanGhai, GuanGzhou, ChonGqinG, Taiyuan, hohhoT

40 experts and lectures on urban, social, business, technological, individual and collective solutions for a better planet. 20 documentary films on environmental emergencies. a loCal and GloBal evenT FoR aWaReneSS and aCTion

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The China Green Tour

The China Green Tour is conceived as participatory non-profit event to promote environmental awareness in China by spreading knowledge of both issues and solutions and to promote through dialogue and inspiring examples individual, collective, non-profit and business greener actions.
in June 2010, a month after the official opening of the Shanghai expo, in eight universities all over China we will screen documentaries about the main eco-issues of our current environmental crisis: water, waste, energy, climate change, urbanisation, food, deforestation, desertification..., and present from all over the world inspiring examples of pragmatic solutions. FILmS ANd LEcTURES ABOUT SOLUTIONS Twenty major green documentaries will be screened to give the public an informative and emotionally engaging up-to-date understanding of green issues. The screenings will be immediately followed by the lectures. Scientists, engineers, social workers, entrepreneurs, nobel prize winners, architects, ingenious thinkers and personalities from the world of politics, sports and the arts will talk about their experiences in thinking and producing successful solutions. These 40 extraordinary speeches and examples of how to think and produce locally adapted solutions, will be filmed, edited, translated into english, Chinese and Spanish and made freely available on the world wide web through a dedicated website with information on the topics, partners, educational and online resources links. The wide range of topics and guest speakers will help us to publicized the China Green Tour not only in universities but deep inside civil society.

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Where?
a Green Tour in a country that will have 1 billion consumers of goods, materials and energy in its urban cities in 15 years. a travelling event with a national, international and local impact
China is the factory of the world but its terrritory reveals many local differences and issues. Cities on the Tour were chosen for their roles and symbolic association in contemporary China. The china Green Tour will be held in: Beijing - the Capital of China Shanghai - Chinas financial center Guangzhou - the heart of Chinas manufacturing industry and trade chongqing (Sichuan) - the symbol of Chinas recent urbanisation Taiyuan (Shanxi) - the coal province capital Hohhot (Inner mongolia) - the symbol of the local and international consequences of green issues (desertification, sand storm, acid rain...) Program: Openings Nights, Films, Lectures, media and meetings Professionals from major Tv, Radio and internet Portals in China have already sent us their personal support to broadcast, anounce and relay widely the events, topics and lectures of the China Green Tour, (see nGos and Media file). meetings with decisions makers and Gala Openings an opening gala will launch the Tour in Beijing in the presence of officials, international guests, movie stars, entrepreneurs, scientists, nGos and our business, media and private partners. in order to promote intellectual exchange and business opportunities, additional gala openings and private meetings are planned in every city between our guests, partners and Chinese local officials, nGos and decision makers.

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Program: nature knows no Borders

Will China succeed in really going green or not, it will affect us all.
A travelling tour all over china, an opportunity of exchanges The events of the China Green Tour, as well as the lectures and the website, will be promoted as one and largely relayed by our media partners and network in China. We will invite national and international blogs, press, universities and nGos to relay and use the China Green Tour as an informative and participatory tool for exchanges, knowledge and action. Five Elements - Five days of films, lectures and events The Green china Tour will be organised symbolically around the theme of the five traditionnal chinese elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, metal and Water. The day of Wood will be dedicated to issues of forests, plants, deforestation and soil erosion . The day of Fire will highlight energy and industrial transformation process. The day of Earth will focus on food, agriculture, population and biodiversity. The day of metal will shake out financial and development topics and see how development and economic concerns meet environmental issues. The day of Water will close the round with discussions about the ocean, geography and climate refugees ; perspectives and prospectives on water stress will be the key focus of the closing day.

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Solutions and best practices

40 worldwide examples of solutions, 40 guests and lectures for hope and sustainable development
The lectures as the range of subjects is wide and our guest speakers have limited time, we will ask them to make only one speech during their stay in China. This will lead us to invite 40 guests to embrace a very large range of solutions. among them:
Succesful examples of reforestation in Korea and Kenya Sustainable urban management of water, energy, public transport and waste in developed and developing countries inspirational story of the micro-credit in Bangladesh effective examples of corporate social responsibility Cutting edge engineering, bionergy and recycling technology to produce energy from waste, light, wind, sea, algae... nGos local actions for sustainable development and green protection in india, africa, China and elsewhere Successful local examples of green regulations and development in europe, China, north and South america. eco-village in europe which turned green twenty years ago and saved their local economy Revival of rural activity and forest in Rajasthan by the use of secular water recuperation methods and active non-profit commitment advanced technology and traditional knowledge which avoids the use of pesticides and cleans water and soil The story of eco-friendly living quarters in urban capitals in europe (Sweden, Germany, denmark, england) Green entrepreneurs success stories from the uS, China, india, europe... individual and collective solutions for saving energy alternative thinking to consider our needs and their environmental impact new urban and architectural ways to preserve and protect our planet...

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China: From local to Global

The best policies will not be effective if people do not make it happen locally.
Growing local actions and concern could also help greener policies to be more widely accepted, strengthened or simply effective. The point is not to cast any particular blame of responsibility. it is too late for that. We prefer instead to show inspiring examples in the social, scientific and business field that already exist and convey the message that solutions lay in everyones hands and should be locally adapted. Globalization works not only for trade and information but also for consequences. Co2 affects everyone as climate change, desertification, water and food stress will affect deeply the geography, the social demographic as well as the social stability of the world. What our neighbours do or not affect us all. With their still early stage of economic development, their rising population, their high rate of urbanisation and the legitimate aspiration to better living standards, developing countries, and more specifically China by its geography, population and influence, will be of major importance on the world green balance. Therefore the aim of the China Green Tour, as a communication tool, is to act where people from the civil society, from manual workers to Ceos, officials and consumers, have directly and undirectly the most important impact on our planet and yet have not a clear understanding of their environmental footprint or the solutions to change it.

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Practical information
a professional team an international network of Private-Web and Media Supporters to spread the word.
Our professionals media supporters work for: TV CCTv-4, CCTv-9, Phoenix Tv, Beijing Satelitte Channel, China education Television, hebei Tv, hunan Tv, BTv-3, dragon Tv, CBn Tv, SCTv, StarTv, hunan Tv... Web Beijing youth network, Sina.com, Sohu.net, youku.com, Baidu.com ,Beijing Music Radio, People.com.cn,net Media, Beijing.gov.cn, China interactive Corp... Radio China national Radio, Beijing Radio news, S hanghai east Radio, Shanxi Peoples radio station, China Radio international, Green lemon radio... Press economic daily, China youth daily, Beijing youth daily, Morning Post (Beijing) oriental Morning Post, Wenhui news, The Bund, Xinmin Weekly, Sichuan daily Chengdu daily, nanfang daily... Whos doing it? The china Green Tour is organised by a non-profit association based in Paris called: Solutions pour une Meilleure Plante. its founders, Matthieu Wolmark, liyan du (ignea ltd, hK), Guan yao (autumn Time, Beijing) are professionals in the field of documentary films, media industry and cultural event organisation both in europe and China. The China Green Tour is a non-profit event as we want to use our network and skills to do something for our future. But the event is also meant, in order to get a real impact in the civil society, to be produced the same way in term of organisation,marketing and communication as any professional one. The structure of organisation is a participatory one. That is why we have brought together eight local chinese green student assocations to our project. you will find a brief description of it in the nGos and Media supports file. as we are entering in the active preparation of the Tour (guests invitations, documentaries preselection, funding...) we are establishing a national and international network of active supporters and assistants. our network of supporters is growing everyday. We already have received personal supports of Chinese media professionals from Tv, Press, Radio and internet portals. Major video and news portals have also agreed on the principle of promoting with efficiency the China Green Tour on their portals. you will find in the nGos and Media Support file a selection of emails, a description of the media involved and their coverage. as we just have started the preparation of the Tour, we expect to expand exponentially the coverage of the China Green Tour by private, media and blog support.

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note from the founders

The green emergency can also be a real opportunity to build a better world.
Note from the founders
The idea of China Green Tour was born from a growing concern of its founders about green issues. We are just normal people that had no knowledge about global warming or the environmental situation just a few years ago. Through documentaries and personal experiences, we gradually realised that we had to do something for us and the others. So we decided to use our skills and professional network to build this non-profit event. The green issues, thanks to documentary filmakers, nGos, media and corporate responsibility are by now an individual and a collective concern in the Western world. This sense of the emergency is not as widely shared in developing countries.
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Solutions Pour une meilleure plante association loi 1901 non profit organization T + 33 6 1173 88 82 forabetterplanet@gmail.com

increasing natural disasters, health problems, ecolo-nomical migrations and energy issues show us that we, as a species, are facing the most difficult challenge of all time. as strange as it may sound, the human brain and talent might be seen - by its extraordinary achievements in science, knowledge, medicine and technology as our most dangerous predators. But if our incredible development is surely bringing us to a quite difficult time, it could also be the main tool to avoid a predictible catastrophe. We believe that people are the key and that global solutions will come also from the multiplication of many locally adapted actions. as Rajasthan is not California or France, it needs adapted solutions, but it also needs hope. We want to remind and be reminded that doing something for nature, for us as well as for others, is just a normal thing to do. That is why we will invite people from europe, asia, north and South america, australia, Russia, from all fields to show that we are all interconnected, that there is plenty of small and large adapted solutions and that everywhere on this planet people, nGos, corporates, scientifics and even officials or movie stars do care about it in a way that they have imagined and produced solutions that work. That is also the reason why we invite you as a Guest, an nGo, a Corporate Company with a concern for social responsibility or simply just as a friendly Green Supporter to join the China Green Tour. looking forward to hear from you soon,
matthieu Wolmark october 2009 President of Solutions pour une Meilleure Plante Co-founder of the China Green Tour