GVB-UCAFEEEco-community

Projects

Haiying Lin

GVB Official Representative, (http://www.gvbchina.org)

UCAFEE Program Director,(http://www.ucafee.org)

GVB and UCAFEE Global Village of Beijing (GVB) is a leading Chinese

environmental NGO that aim to promote public environmental movement and civil society development in China. Following GVB’ s advice, the Beijing Olympic Committee takes Green Community Developments as one of its major Olympic plans and popularize GVB model.

US-China Association for Environmental Protection (UCAFEE) is an emerging institution that serves as linkage between China and the west, fundraising and providing consultative training service for Chinese environmental education projects, with GVB as a base.

Participatory Rural Community Development

Set up eco-development base in Duijiushi village, Yanqing County, Beijing

It Provides a Green-life Training Base for:

Rural garbage sorting and recycling

Demonstration of Renewable Energy

Green Products/Concepts Exhibition

Environmental Training and Eco-Tour

Eco-tour for Demonstration, Education

Tourism and Rural Poverty-Alleviation: Stay in Farmer’s House

Biodiversity: Conservation & Development

Yunnan: World Heritage Site 26 Minor Nationalities

Biodiversity

Yunnan Eco-cultural Project

Present how Chinese traditional cultural essences (Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucius) contribute to renewal of ecological values, conservation initiatives in our society.

The subprograms includes: eco-tourism, eco-culture renewal and preservation, eco-community development

Worship “Nature” God

Natual God

In Dongba culture of Naxi Nationality, “nature” is worshiped as God, and their legend takes “nature” and “human” as brothers, peaceful if get along well; extinct if mutual slaughter.

Dongba Language Demonstrate Human relationship with Nature

Renewal of Eco-culture for Environmental Protection and Rural Development

Primitive eco-experiences were accumulated through thousands of years’ adaptation to environment: animals domesticated and plants cultivated; human-made wetland by Hani and Yi nationality; biodiversity pool by Dai Nationality etc.

Daoism, Buddhism preach harmonization of human and nature. Many holy mountains, holy trees etc. were protected

due to their reverence toward nature

Key Words of the Model

4E Concern Environment Education Eco-village Eco-tourism

4I management Indicator Information integration

Implementation

Key Words of the Model

4P Activities Practice Presentation Pledge Participation

4S Life Values Simplicity Spirituality Sporting Sustainability

Key Words of the Model

4C Opportunity Community Conservation Culture Capacity

LISU Market

Conflicting Values

There exists conflicting values on how to alleviate poverty in these remote areas with resourceful ethnic cultural heritages and biodiversity

Government show less attention of culture heritage protection, thinking minority groups should just give up their backward living style and be integrated in modern world.

Environmentalists are pushing eco-tourism as a way to lift living standards in these rural areas, target environment, culture protection and employment with one shoot.

Is eco-tourism a solution to eco-conservation and economic development of local minorities?