Green Camel Bell
Gansu "Green Camel Bell" Environment Protection and Development Center
Goal
Commit to protect environment in West China
Hope
People could enjoy green hill, clean water, blue sky and are in harmony with nature.
Value
Equal, Pragmatic, Participatory, Creative
Working Area
Gan Su Province
Fields
Promote environmental protection philosophy
Attract and train volunteers,
Develop community culture
Conduct post-disaster reconstruction
Protect Grassland and water resources
Strategic Plan (2010-2014)
1. Conduct public environment education, sponsor volunteers organization, promote public participation in environment protection.
2. Focus on ecological and environmental problems in typical regions. Improve regional eco-environment by demonstration and setting good examples.
3. Encourage social supervision in the solution of water pollution and in protecting the water resource safety.
4. Strength the organization construction and improve team innovation capability to achieve sustainable development of the organization.
5. Establish cooperation and communication mechanisms to strengthen the experiences exchanges among different civil organizations.
Our History
Green Camel Bell (GCB), the first Non-governmental environmental protection organization in Gansu, was formally established on 4th, November, 2004. It aims to protect and to restore the continuing deteriorated ecological environment in West China. Since establishment, GCB played active role in setting environment crisis, carrying out public environment education, promoting environment organizations in high schools, training environment volunteers and so on.
What we are doing now
Carry out the following projects
c Protect water resources in Gansu;
c Nature University;
c Green Travel;
c Eco-building demonstration project in Gansu quake-stricken areas;
c Eco-agriculture demonstration project(sunflower cultivation)
What we have done
Projects
c Fruit cards;
c Green Olympic Green China;
c Protect Mother River;
c Gansus Green Campus;
c University students Forum [Return farmland to forest (grassland)];
c Advocate "reservation Lanzhou trolleybus"
Research and Training
c First two Saiga antelope horn market researches;
c Environmental education in Minqin;
c Antelope Tour Training;
c Construct Lanzhou environment education base;
c Public education in Lanzhou Zoo;
Publication
c Local textbook of Minqin desertification;
c Environmental education reference reading for Huining Guochengyi Primary School;
c Legal Aid Handbook for Water Pollution Victims;
c Map of Lanzhou Zoo;
c Green AutoText;
c Green Camel Bell Newsletter;
c Collected Works of Gansus Green Campus;
c Draw the first green map in Lanzhou;
Details of our efforts
1. Nature conservation and community development projects
(1) Gansu Water Environment Project was launched in July, 2006 under the funding of Pacific Environment, and now is in the implement of Phase III. This Project aims to
1) raise public awareness of the water pollution in Yellow River, and the conservation and utilization of water resources; and
2) to encourage the social supervision in the solution of water pollution and in protecting the water resource safety; and
3) to promote the disclosure of environmental information in water area.
(2) Eco-agriculture demonstration project was launched in 2008 under the funding of The second session of the China Development Marketplace Project, World Bank.
This project is scheduled to carry out in Huining, the representative of Gansu Loess Plateau arid regions and will focus on drought, salinity, pesticides and fertilizers pollution and poverty problems. In order to achieve environmental protection and livelihood improvement, it demonstrates and promotes drought-resistant and saline-alkali organic crops, and encourages the construction of farmer organizations which facilitates farmers to become market participants.
(3) Post-earthquake reconstruction was carried out in Zhongmiao, Wen Country, Gansu, which is most serious area of Gansu hit in "5.12" large earthquake. By promoting grass brick house, eco-toilets and other eco-building, GCB helps local victims alleviate the pressure of post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation while protecting local ecological environment. We are scheduling the projects of livelihood restoration, organic agriculture, eco-tourism, and disaster prevention and mitigation in the future in order to reconstruct a sustainable develop community.
(4) Saiga antelope horn market researches (Finished) were carried out to analysis the threats and adverse effects of Saiga antelope horn trade to the survival and number of Saiga antelope. We tried to explore the root of illegal trading and put forward a solution. We raised public awareness in the process and attracted more and more people to participate in the protection of Saiga antelope.
(5) Gansus Green Campus (finished) was hold to promote environmental protection, not only in Gansu but all over China, to move forward. This campus attracted young students all over the country came to Gansu to see Gansu environmental problems, and promoted opinion exchanges among environmental volunteers.
2. Environment Education
(1) Nature University: Nature University is a virtual community environmental university, aimed at training qualified personnel by self-help. It encourages community residents participating in field surveys, which offers residents opportunities to face directly with environment problems. People could learn more about the surround nature and concern about the change, better or worse. We also hope the participants could cherish, appreciate and love natural life, and furthermore, to participate in the solution activities of environmental pollution.
We arrange following activities, including but not limited to: hiking, bird-watching, walking along the Yellow River, planting trees, cleaning the community, visiting the sewage treatment plant and investigating the landfill plants.
(2) Purpose of Green Travel:
Stimulate citizens and enterprises to participate in environment protection and improvement.
1) to raise public awareness of good ambient air quality and public conscious of the air quality improvement;
2) to urge the enterprises take responsibilities they should bear in environment protection and improvement;
3) to promote the legislation improvement of environmental policies and regulations.
4) to promote the ecology technology improvement of vehicles and fuels;
5) to encourage green travel.
In 2009, GCB, China Association for NGO Cooperation, and Environmental Defense continue to implement free bicycle rental and to promote "green travel" in Lanzhou, and also, to carry out the searching of "Green Travel Daren" and so on.
(3) Environment educations in Lanzhou Zoo aim at improving publics knowledge of wild animals and awake their awareness of wild animals protection. Volunteers introduce to the visitors the wild animals and the way to protect them. We hope more and more people will join us in wild animal protection. It's now the fixed event of GCB in Labors Day and National Day.
(4) Investigation and training of environment education (finished). GCB conducted a requirement-assessment regarding volunteers difficulties in environment education. Based on the assessment, GCB invited relevant professionals to hold lectures and trainings in educational psychology, environmental education methods and so on.
(5) Compile Local textbook for desertification areas (finished). This textbook introduced the universal knowledge of desertification (desertification, land types, the impact of desertification on our lives, combating desertification, case studies) and was prepared for the Grade 7-9 students at compulsory education stage in Minqin. The book had three parts, including issues and concepts, text, and after-school activities, and contained about 36000 words. Photos covered 30% ~ 40% of the book.
(6) Green Map (finished) was to draw green map along Yellow River in Lanzhou. What we do was to clearly mark the natural, cultural, ecological, environmental attractions around. The electronic version of the map can be downloaded from the GCB website.
3. Daily Work
(1) Volunteer training: To enhance the capacity of volunteers and various environmental groups through various trainings.
(2) Students Environment Forums is a platform for environment groups in Gansu to communicate and share experience. We regularly hold forums to discuss the environment and community capacity-building problems.
(3) Environment Movie data center provide learning materials for volunteers and environment groups across the province.
(4) GCBs newsletter is our regular publication (electronic version and print version). It provides a way for environment groups in Lanzhou to learn more about our environment, and also gives other environment groups a view of Gansus environment problems and environment groups here.
Latest update: 4th, October, 2009
Gansu "Green Camel Bell" Environment Protection and Development Center
Goal
Commit to protect environment in West China
Hope
People could enjoy green hill, clean water, blue sky and are in harmony with nature.
Value
Equal, Pragmatic, Participatory, Creative
Working Area
Gan Su Province
Fields
Promote environmental protection philosophy
Attract and train volunteers,
Develop community culture
Conduct post-disaster reconstruction
Protect Grassland and water resources
Strategic Plan (2010-2014)
1. Conduct public environment education, sponsor volunteers organization, promote public participation in environment protection.
2. Focus on ecological and environmental problems in typical regions. Improve regional eco-environment by demonstration and setting good examples.
3. Encourage social supervision in the solution of water pollution and in protecting the water resource safety.
4. Strength the organization construction and improve team innovation capability to achieve sustainable development of the organization.
5. Establish cooperation and communication mechanisms to strengthen the experiences exchanges among different civil organizations.
Our History
Green Camel Bell (GCB), the first Non-governmental environmental protection organization in Gansu, was formally established on 4th, November, 2004. It aims to protect and to restore the continuing deteriorated ecological environment in West China. Since establishment, GCB played active role in setting environment crisis, carrying out public environment education, promoting environment organizations in high schools, training environment volunteers and so on.
What we are doing now
Carry out the following projects
c Protect water resources in Gansu;
c Nature University;
c Green Travel;
c Eco-building demonstration project in Gansu quake-stricken areas;
c Eco-agriculture demonstration project(sunflower cultivation)
What we have done
Projects
c Fruit cards;
c Green Olympic Green China;
c Protect Mother River;
c Gansus Green Campus;
c University students Forum [Return farmland to forest (grassland)];
c Advocate "reservation Lanzhou trolleybus"
Research and Training
c First two Saiga antelope horn market researches;
c Environmental education in Minqin;
c Antelope Tour Training;
c Construct Lanzhou environment education base;
c Public education in Lanzhou Zoo;
Publication
c Local textbook of Minqin desertification;
c Environmental education reference reading for Huining Guochengyi Primary School;
c Legal Aid Handbook for Water Pollution Victims;
c Map of Lanzhou Zoo;
c Green AutoText;
c Green Camel Bell Newsletter;
c Collected Works of Gansus Green Campus;
c Draw the first green map in Lanzhou;
Details of our efforts
1. Nature conservation and community development projects
(1) Gansu Water Environment Project was launched in July, 2006 under the funding of Pacific Environment, and now is in the implement of Phase III. This Project aims to
1) raise public awareness of the water pollution in Yellow River, and the conservation and utilization of water resources; and
2) to encourage the social supervision in the solution of water pollution and in protecting the water resource safety; and
3) to promote the disclosure of environmental information in water area.
(2) Eco-agriculture demonstration project was launched in 2008 under the funding of The second session of the China Development Marketplace Project, World Bank.
This project is scheduled to carry out in Huining, the representative of Gansu Loess Plateau arid regions and will focus on drought, salinity, pesticides and fertilizers pollution and poverty problems. In order to achieve environmental protection and livelihood improvement, it demonstrates and promotes drought-resistant and saline-alkali organic crops, and encourages the construction of farmer organizations which facilitates farmers to become market participants.
(3) Post-earthquake reconstruction was carried out in Zhongmiao, Wen Country, Gansu, which is most serious area of Gansu hit in "5.12" large earthquake. By promoting grass brick house, eco-toilets and other eco-building, GCB helps local victims alleviate the pressure of post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation while protecting local ecological environment. We are scheduling the projects of livelihood restoration, organic agriculture, eco-tourism, and disaster prevention and mitigation in the future in order to reconstruct a sustainable develop community.
(4) Saiga antelope horn market researches (Finished) were carried out to analysis the threats and adverse effects of Saiga antelope horn trade to the survival and number of Saiga antelope. We tried to explore the root of illegal trading and put forward a solution. We raised public awareness in the process and attracted more and more people to participate in the protection of Saiga antelope.
(5) Gansus Green Campus (finished) was hold to promote environmental protection, not only in Gansu but all over China, to move forward. This campus attracted young students all over the country came to Gansu to see Gansu environmental problems, and promoted opinion exchanges among environmental volunteers.
2. Environment Education
(1) Nature University: Nature University is a virtual community environmental university, aimed at training qualified personnel by self-help. It encourages community residents participating in field surveys, which offers residents opportunities to face directly with environment problems. People could learn more about the surround nature and concern about the change, better or worse. We also hope the participants could cherish, appreciate and love natural life, and furthermore, to participate in the solution activities of environmental pollution.
We arrange following activities, including but not limited to: hiking, bird-watching, walking along the Yellow River, planting trees, cleaning the community, visiting the sewage treatment plant and investigating the landfill plants.
(2) Purpose of Green Travel:
Stimulate citizens and enterprises to participate in environment protection and improvement.
1) to raise public awareness of good ambient air quality and public conscious of the air quality improvement;
2) to urge the enterprises take responsibilities they should bear in environment protection and improvement;
3) to promote the legislation improvement of environmental policies and regulations.
4) to promote the ecology technology improvement of vehicles and fuels;
5) to encourage green travel.
In 2009, GCB, China Association for NGO Cooperation, and Environmental Defense continue to implement free bicycle rental and to promote "green travel" in Lanzhou, and also, to carry out the searching of "Green Travel Daren" and so on.
(3) Environment educations in Lanzhou Zoo aim at improving publics knowledge of wild animals and awake their awareness of wild animals protection. Volunteers introduce to the visitors the wild animals and the way to protect them. We hope more and more people will join us in wild animal protection. It's now the fixed event of GCB in Labors Day and National Day.
(4) Investigation and training of environment education (finished). GCB conducted a requirement-assessment regarding volunteers difficulties in environment education. Based on the assessment, GCB invited relevant professionals to hold lectures and trainings in educational psychology, environmental education methods and so on.
(5) Compile Local textbook for desertification areas (finished). This textbook introduced the universal knowledge of desertification (desertification, land types, the impact of desertification on our lives, combating desertification, case studies) and was prepared for the Grade 7-9 students at compulsory education stage in Minqin. The book had three parts, including issues and concepts, text, and after-school activities, and contained about 36000 words. Photos covered 30% ~ 40% of the book.
(6) Green Map (finished) was to draw green map along Yellow River in Lanzhou. What we do was to clearly mark the natural, cultural, ecological, environmental attractions around. The electronic version of the map can be downloaded from the GCB website.
3. Daily Work
(1) Volunteer training: To enhance the capacity of volunteers and various environmental groups through various trainings.
(2) Students Environment Forums is a platform for environment groups in Gansu to communicate and share experience. We regularly hold forums to discuss the environment and community capacity-building problems.
(3) Environment Movie data center provide learning materials for volunteers and environment groups across the province.
(4) GCBs newsletter is our regular publication (electronic version and print version). It provides a way for environment groups in Lanzhou to learn more about our environment, and also gives other environment groups a view of Gansus environment problems and environment groups here.
Latest update: 4th, October, 2009
22/11: One Night in Gansu
By Yang Chu
I looked around, and through the grey fog of cigarette smoke I could just make out an outline of the man who was talking at me in a gruff voice with a dialogue of Chinese I couldn't understand. He gestured animatedly, not noticing in his excitement that I was nodding without comprehension. The smoke swirled around him like incense. A few feet away another man was also talking at me, giving his version of whatever story was in the works, talking over and under the first man in that same incomprehensible dialogue. I didn't know who to pay attention to so I bobbed my head at each in turn, to keep them talking. A dirty lightbulb hung between us, slightly above our heads, illuminating the dirt walls and the dirt floor. I was in a dirt house on the side of a dirt mountain in the frozen winter of a small village in China's Gansu Province. Outside was the kind of primordial silent black that only still exists in places where people continue to wake and sleep with the sun. I should have been a bit scared, freshly plucked as I was from my apartment in downtown San Francisco, now wading through the developing world with my developed-world ways and thoughts and expectations of what life should be; but Zhaozhong was with me, so was Liping and Chenyang, and sandwiched between my Green Camel Bell friends I felt safe enough to enjoy the delicious strangeness of the situation.
I looked around, and through the grey fog of cigarette smoke I could just make out an outline of the man who was talking at me in a gruff voice with a dialogue of Chinese I couldn't understand. He gestured animatedly, not noticing in his excitement that I was nodding without comprehension. The smoke swirled around him like incense. A few feet away another man was also talking at me, giving his version of whatever story was in the works, talking over and under the first man in that same incomprehensible dialogue. I didn't know who to pay attention to so I bobbed my head at each in turn, to keep them talking. A dirty lightbulb hung between us, slightly above our heads, illuminating the dirt walls and the dirt floor. I was in a dirt house on the side of a dirt mountain in the frozen winter of a small village in China's Gansu Province. Outside was the kind of primordial silent black that only still exists in places where people continue to wake and sleep with the sun. I should have been a bit scared, freshly plucked as I was from my apartment in downtown San Francisco, now wading through the developing world with my developed-world ways and thoughts and expectations of what life should be; but Zhaozhong was with me, so was Liping and Chenyang, and sandwiched between my Green Camel Bell friends I felt safe enough to enjoy the delicious strangeness of the situation.
--interview with young pioneer in environmental protection who named zhaozhong
By Ning Zuomei, China Green Student Forum
About Zhao:
Zhaozhong, Male, 27 years old, graduated from Hefei University of Technology. After graduating ,he went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou Institute of Modern Physics, served as an Assistant Engineer. In 2004,he founded the first environmental NGO of Gansu Province "Green Camel Bell" to protect the environment and the Yellow River in Lanzhou. With the constant development and expansion the "Green Camel Bell", Zhao resigned from the stability work of the Institute to devote himself to environmental protection,and is the currently Director of Green Camel Bell in Gansu Province Center for Environment and Development.And Was the Winner of fourth "China Youth Toyota Environmental Protection Award","Time" magazine 2009 global environmental hero.
By Ning Zuomei, China Green Student Forum
About Zhao:
Zhaozhong, Male, 27 years old, graduated from Hefei University of Technology. After graduating ,he went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou Institute of Modern Physics, served as an Assistant Engineer. In 2004,he founded the first environmental NGO of Gansu Province "Green Camel Bell" to protect the environment and the Yellow River in Lanzhou. With the constant development and expansion the "Green Camel Bell", Zhao resigned from the stability work of the Institute to devote himself to environmental protection,and is the currently Director of Green Camel Bell in Gansu Province Center for Environment and Development.And Was the Winner of fourth "China Youth Toyota Environmental Protection Award","Time" magazine 2009 global environmental hero.
Issued on August 19, 2009
1. Develop public environmental education; support the growth of volunteerism and promote public participation in environmental protection action.
2. Focus on representative eco-environmental problems in local places; realize the improvement of environment by demonstration and advocacy.
3. Play the role as social supervisor and keep sustained attention on water pollution problem to protect water environment
4. Strengthen organization construction and enhance the team innovation ability to realize the sustainable development
5. Establish cooperation and communication mechanism, reinforce experience exchange with folk environmental organizations.
1. Develop public environmental education; support the growth of volunteerism and promote public participation in environmental protection action.
2. Focus on representative eco-environmental problems in local places; realize the improvement of environment by demonstration and advocacy.
3. Play the role as social supervisor and keep sustained attention on water pollution problem to protect water environment
4. Strengthen organization construction and enhance the team innovation ability to realize the sustainable development
5. Establish cooperation and communication mechanism, reinforce experience exchange with folk environmental organizations.
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3155
Yang Chu, China Program Associate at Pacific Environment, sat down with Zhao Zhong, a Pacific Environment partner and Time Environmental Hero of the Year.
Zhao Zhong, tell us about how you became an environmental activist in China, and why you chose Gansu Province as your base.
I've always been a mountaineering enthusiast. In my travels I saw beautiful sceneries but also serious environmental problems. I felt I should do something, and started by picking up garbage in my hikes. After graduating from University I moved to Gansu for a position with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There, I saw declining ecosystems and a lack of NGO presence, so I established Green Camel Bell. Now I am a full time environmentalist.
What are your thoughts on being named a 2009 Hero of the Environment by Time Magazine, and what impact do you foresee this honor having on your cause?
So many other environmentalists also deserve this honor, so many have contributed as much or more than me. My own contributions are made possible by the Green Camel Bell team. Perhaps more volunteers will join us now from abroad, and we will receive more attention from researchers and the media. Time Magazine named me a hero for water pollution monitoring, but the work of Green Camel Bell is more than that - I will continue to focus on supporting rural communities and developing NGOs.
What advice do you have for those in China, and the rest of the world, who want to follow in your footsteps and work for environmental protection in their own communities?
Everyone has what it takes to go into environmental protection. Everyone can be a hero of the environment.
What immediate plans do you have for yourself and your organization? Where do you see yourself decades from now, and what will you be doing?
In the immediate future I'll be completing two projects, from the World Bank and the Ford Foundation, which will have me working in rural communities for much of my time. I'm also improving the operations at Green Camel Bell, to make the organization run more smoothly and sustainably. As for the distant future, it's hard to see years into the future, everything is changing so fast.
Yang Chu, China Program Associate at Pacific Environment, sat down with Zhao Zhong, a Pacific Environment partner and Time Environmental Hero of the Year.
Zhao Zhong, tell us about how you became an environmental activist in China, and why you chose Gansu Province as your base.
I've always been a mountaineering enthusiast. In my travels I saw beautiful sceneries but also serious environmental problems. I felt I should do something, and started by picking up garbage in my hikes. After graduating from University I moved to Gansu for a position with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There, I saw declining ecosystems and a lack of NGO presence, so I established Green Camel Bell. Now I am a full time environmentalist.
What are your thoughts on being named a 2009 Hero of the Environment by Time Magazine, and what impact do you foresee this honor having on your cause?
So many other environmentalists also deserve this honor, so many have contributed as much or more than me. My own contributions are made possible by the Green Camel Bell team. Perhaps more volunteers will join us now from abroad, and we will receive more attention from researchers and the media. Time Magazine named me a hero for water pollution monitoring, but the work of Green Camel Bell is more than that - I will continue to focus on supporting rural communities and developing NGOs.
What advice do you have for those in China, and the rest of the world, who want to follow in your footsteps and work for environmental protection in their own communities?
Everyone has what it takes to go into environmental protection. Everyone can be a hero of the environment.
What immediate plans do you have for yourself and your organization? Where do you see yourself decades from now, and what will you be doing?
In the immediate future I'll be completing two projects, from the World Bank and the Ford Foundation, which will have me working in rural communities for much of my time. I'm also improving the operations at Green Camel Bell, to make the organization run more smoothly and sustainably. As for the distant future, it's hard to see years into the future, everything is changing so fast.
TIME Magazine, 10/05/2009
Original article
By Austin Ramzy
Gansu province in northwestern China is a land of snowcapped peaks, crumbling hills and Silk Road oases. It's a harsh, beautiful place -- and a fragile one. Water supplies are prone to overuse by industry and agriculture. Rings of hills trap noxious emissions over cities like provincial capital Lanzhou, which has some of the world's worst air pollution. And aggressive economic policies mean polluting factories aren't always held to account.
But one man is helping Gansu cultivate a respect for its natural gifts. Zhao Zhong, 27, who moved to the province to work for the Chinese Academy of Science in 2004, set up Green Camel Bell (GCB) -- the province's first environmental NGO -- with a few volunteers in 2004. Named for the bells used on traditional camel trains, GCB raises awareness about green issues, monitors polluters and advocates new policies.
Its volunteers scour the province for factories that dump waste and toxins into rivers, adding culprits to an independently run, national water-pollution map. Multi-nationals and their offshoots have taken note. After a brewery it part-owned in Tianshui ended up on the map, beer giant Carlsberg installed wastewater-treatment facilities. State-owned firms that are found polluting usually feign indifference, but at least they know they are being watched, a new and uncomfortable experience. "Companies that are causing pollution feel pressure from the water-pollution map," says Zhao. "They are forced to take immediate and more open measures to solve the problem." Everyone can drink to that.
Original article
By Austin Ramzy
Gansu province in northwestern China is a land of snowcapped peaks, crumbling hills and Silk Road oases. It's a harsh, beautiful place -- and a fragile one. Water supplies are prone to overuse by industry and agriculture. Rings of hills trap noxious emissions over cities like provincial capital Lanzhou, which has some of the world's worst air pollution. And aggressive economic policies mean polluting factories aren't always held to account.
But one man is helping Gansu cultivate a respect for its natural gifts. Zhao Zhong, 27, who moved to the province to work for the Chinese Academy of Science in 2004, set up Green Camel Bell (GCB) -- the province's first environmental NGO -- with a few volunteers in 2004. Named for the bells used on traditional camel trains, GCB raises awareness about green issues, monitors polluters and advocates new policies.
Its volunteers scour the province for factories that dump waste and toxins into rivers, adding culprits to an independently run, national water-pollution map. Multi-nationals and their offshoots have taken note. After a brewery it part-owned in Tianshui ended up on the map, beer giant Carlsberg installed wastewater-treatment facilities. State-owned firms that are found polluting usually feign indifference, but at least they know they are being watched, a new and uncomfortable experience. "Companies that are causing pollution feel pressure from the water-pollution map," says Zhao. "They are forced to take immediate and more open measures to solve the problem." Everyone can drink to that.
Contents
I. Brief introduction to Green Camel Bell (GCB)
II. Routine Duties and Organizational Growth
1. Office
2. Environmental Multimedia Resource Center
3. Organizational Development
III. Environmental Protection Communications
1. Voluntary Speeches at Lanzhou Zoo
2. Green Journalists Salon
3. Promoting the Growth of Environmental Protection Groups in Lanzhou Colleges and Universities
IV. Green Camel Bell Projects
1. Nature Universities
2. Green Transportation
3. Green Communities
4. Gansu Water Environment Project
5. Clean Energy Project
6. Ecological Agriculture Project
7. Earthquake Combating and Disaster Relief projects
V. Acknowledgements
See detailed:
2008 Green Camel Bell Project Summary
I. Brief introduction to Green Camel Bell (GCB)
II. Routine Duties and Organizational Growth
1. Office
2. Environmental Multimedia Resource Center
3. Organizational Development
III. Environmental Protection Communications
1. Voluntary Speeches at Lanzhou Zoo
2. Green Journalists Salon
3. Promoting the Growth of Environmental Protection Groups in Lanzhou Colleges and Universities
IV. Green Camel Bell Projects
1. Nature Universities
2. Green Transportation
3. Green Communities
4. Gansu Water Environment Project
5. Clean Energy Project
6. Ecological Agriculture Project
7. Earthquake Combating and Disaster Relief projects
V. Acknowledgements
See detailed:
2008 Green Camel Bell Project Summary
14/09: Green Camel Bell (French)
January 1, 2009
Gansu "Green Camel Bell" Environment and Development Center (GCB) is a non-government Organization with the status of an independent legal entity. GCB focuses on the environmental protection cause and its main work includes environmental education, community development, water resources conservation etc. For the development of GCB, we are recruiting volunteers to join us with the following requirements:
1. Recruit Volunteers as Office Executives
a. Recruit Volunteers as Office Assistants
Work Time: From Monday to Friday
Workplace: Green Camel Bell Office, Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assist the GCB staff with the maintaining and managing of address list, volunteer serving records, books, files etc.
*Update and supervise the lending records of GCB books/video materials
Requirements: Good at file/database sorting; carefulness; sense of responsibility
b. Recruit Volunteers as Gansu environmental news issuers
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Assist the GCB staff with the collection of Gansu environmental news and promulgation onto the websites of GCB and Green Journalist Salon
Requirements: Time-abundant; excellent communication and presentation skills
c. Recruit Volunteers as Translators
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for accurate and prompt translation of files, project reports, website information, or any related domestic and aboard environment protection materials required by GCB
Requirements: Skilled in foreign language (English & Japanese); experience in translation; time-abundant
d. Recruit Volunteers as Editors
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for editing/proofreading/typesetting the publications of GCB
Requirements: Excellent skills for written Chinese; experience in text editing; familiar with office software
e. Recruit Volunteers as website technicians
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for constructing and maintaining GCB website in Chinese& English;
*Responsible for website picture releasing/ browsing systems programmingiPHP{MySQL 4.1j.
Requirements: Basis in computer; familiar with webpage making and programming; experience in art designing
2. Volunteer Ability Construction
GCB is planning a long term ability constructing project in ways of lecturing, training, practicing and exercising to develop college students with the knowledge of the present and future of nongovernmental organizations, capacity and experience in program implementation, identification with the ideology of NGO and dedication to public welfare. The project will be first experimented in Northwest Normal University.
Recruit 3 College Student Volunteers as Ability Development Training Coordinators
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assist project executive officers with periodic training;
*Contact with the trainees regularly for feedback;
*Summary feedback into reports;
*Responsible for coordinating previous publicity, registration etc. of each training
Requirements: Students from Northwest Normal University ONLY; experience in organizing relevant association activities; time-abundant
3. Recruit Volunteers for Interest Groups
It is suggested that interest groups, such as mountaineering, bird watching, cycling, chorus and dancing, would be organized following the interests of volunteers themselves. Group activities would be called and organized by volunteers. All the groups would be provided with information exchange platform and necessary administrative support from GCB.
Recruit Volunteers as Interest Group Coordinate Leaders
Work Time: Weekends/holidays
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Responsible for determining activities of the interest groups;
*Maintain daily connections with the members;
*Organize group activities.
Requirements: nature-lover; obsess with public welfare; strong ability in organizing; good affinity; good communication and presentation skills
4. Recruit Volunteers for GCB programs
A. Green Community Project
Green Community is intent to raise environmental consciousness of community residents through environment education, propaganda and proposition, participation in environment protect activities; to advocate an environment-friendly and civilized life style bit by bit for constructing a community of green, civility and harmony. Presently GCB has carried out Green Community Project in Mingren Huayuan, Qilihe District. The main programs including environment education in kindergarten of Mingren Huayuan, Green Community posters making, kitchen waste compost experiment and publicizing activities for environment protection.
a. Recruit Volunteers for publicity art designing
Work Time: Free
Workplace: GCB office, Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Responsible for the content, design and drawing of the green show window monthly in green community;
*Assist the drawing of other posters
Requirements: Basis in art; time-abundant; familiar with drawing software
b. Recruit Volunteers for Preschool Environment Education
Work Time: Friday afternoons
Workplace: Kindergarten of Mingren Huayuan, Qilihe District in Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Participate in the design of teaching plans for environment education in kindergarten;
*Practice preschool environment education;
*Assure prompt teaching feedback
Requirements: Experience in environment education; time-abundant; devoting to preschool education; good communication and presentation skills
B. Gansu Water Environment Project
GCB focuses on drinking water safety of Liangjiawan communities in Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu. Under coordination of all interests, new drinking water intake point will be built for the village. It is estimated that clear drinking water would be available since August of this year. Meanwhile GCB is planning a long-term environment education in the village primary school for promoting the environmental consciousness of the students and neighborhoods.
a. Recruit Volunteers for Environment Education in Liangjiawan Village Primary School (Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu)
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Liangjiawan Village Primary School, Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu
Job Description: *Participate in the design and arrangement of teaching plan for environment education;
*Operate the environment education;
*Report back education situation regularly and attend informal discussion for feedback, etc.
Requirements: Interested in environment education; time-abundant
b. Recruit 5 City Water Environment Surveyors
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assure the public participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment of the ongoing Gansu Water Environment Project;
*Participate in the survey and summarize report of paroxysmal environment events;
*Coordinate the preparatory of Lanzhou water environment informal discussions, etc.
Requirements: Environmental specialties or related experience; time-abundant
C. Gansu Earthquake Area Ecological Architecture and Rural Development Project
Three provinces, Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi were greatly affected by May 12 8.0 magnitude earthquake and Wen County was the most affected area in Gansu province, with 111 people were killed, 1394 people were injuries and 0.23 million of the total 0.25 million populations suffered. The massive earthquake also caused serious damage in basic facilities, as 0.54 million houses were damaged and more than 90% of the county houses were destroyed or became dangerous buildings. GCB is providing support in reconstruction work for the victims. Eco-architectures like straw-bale houses, light-steel houses and water-free toilets were popularized in Zhongmiao Township of Wen County by GCB. The project was not only largely saved construction cost, released depression in reconstruction and recovery production but also protected the local eco-environment and promoted the sustainable development of the community. Volunteers from all social classes are welcomed to join in the post-quake reconstruction work in target areas.
a. Recruit 1 or 2 Ecological Architecture Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than a month
Workplace: Chayuan Village & Yujiawan Village of Zhongmiao Township in Wen County, Longnan City, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Provide assistance to the construction of straw-bale houses, light-steel houses, water-free toilets or other permanent earthquake-resisting eco-architectures for target rural households;
*Solve constructive problems by communicating/discussing with experts;
*Direct practice for target households;
*Lecture basic knowledge in building eco-architectures for rural households and attempt into organizing local construction team;
*Generalize eco-architectures and direct the construction in other areas after finishing target area eco-architecture construction
Requirements:
*Concern about rural development in quake-hit zones;
*Able to bear hardships and long-term service in rural areas
*Good interpersonal and communication skills and team player
*Approval the ideas of eco-architecture (straw-bale, light-steel, water-free toilet, etc.);
*Architecture major or experience in relevant fields.
b. Recruit 1 or 2 Rural Development Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than half a month
Workplace: Chayuan Village & Yujiawan Village of Zhongmiao Township in Wen County, Longnan City, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Investigate the community structure and livelihood in target areas and problems that residents facing in post-quake reconstruction;
*Organize village group meetings, coordinate all interests in the community, and discuss details in program practicing and resource distribution in free talk;
*Explore rebuild schemes, ways of sustainable development such as ecotourism, eco-agriculture together with the villages;
*Promote other community cultural and educational activities.
Requirements:
*Concern about rural development in quake-hit zones;
*Able to bear hardships and long-term service in rural areas;
*Good interpersonal and communication skills and team player;
*Experience in social work and rural basic level work
D. Eco-agriculture and Cooperative Development Project
This project is planning to operate a sunflower planting-based eco-agriculture in Huining County of Gansu Province. The project will based on farm cooperatives, unifying improved varieties purchasing, technological supporting, recycling, processing and selling; creating a perfect social enterprise running mode of gNGO to cooperative to householdh; realizing the cooperation and mutual help between farmers through ability building campaigns; taking full advantage of crop characteristics and eco-agriculture technology to dwindle land salinization and decrease the pollution of soil and crops; and directing households the scientific and reasonable use of sunflower heads as feed, stalk as biogas source to develop a clear energy in rural area.
Recruit 2 Project Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than a month
Workplace: Chaimen Township, Huining County, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Participate in the local agricultural activities, such as sunflower-planting etc.
*Organize special cooperative for sunflowers to enhance variety improvement and unified purchase and sale;
*Advance market-oriented operation for agricultural products such as sunflowers, help peasants making more profit through agricultural management;
*Promote other community cultural and educational activities.
Requirements:
*Knowledge in rural condition; obsess with public welfare; able to bear hardship in rural work;
*Approval the ideas of eco-agriculture, fair trade, etc.
*Experience in one or several following fields: Agricultural Planting; Farm Cooperative; Marketing; Urban Supporting Agriculture; Community College; Cooperative Law (basic knowledge is approved)
*Experience in social work and rural basic level work
Rewards for Volunteer Service:
*Access to the election of the Volunteer of the Year if your service time accumulated to as been requested;
*Chance to attend in relevant learning and training activities hold by GCB;
*Accommodations will be covered and a reasonable allowance will be offered during your service by Projects if you are not serving in Lanzhou.
Please send your resume with the post you applied to info@gcb.ngo.cn CC greencamelbell@gmail.com
Contact Person: Zhao Zhong
TEL: +86-13919244430
Gansu "Green Camel Bell" Environment and Development Center (GCB) is a non-government Organization with the status of an independent legal entity. GCB focuses on the environmental protection cause and its main work includes environmental education, community development, water resources conservation etc. For the development of GCB, we are recruiting volunteers to join us with the following requirements:
1. Recruit Volunteers as Office Executives
a. Recruit Volunteers as Office Assistants
Work Time: From Monday to Friday
Workplace: Green Camel Bell Office, Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assist the GCB staff with the maintaining and managing of address list, volunteer serving records, books, files etc.
*Update and supervise the lending records of GCB books/video materials
Requirements: Good at file/database sorting; carefulness; sense of responsibility
b. Recruit Volunteers as Gansu environmental news issuers
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Assist the GCB staff with the collection of Gansu environmental news and promulgation onto the websites of GCB and Green Journalist Salon
Requirements: Time-abundant; excellent communication and presentation skills
c. Recruit Volunteers as Translators
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for accurate and prompt translation of files, project reports, website information, or any related domestic and aboard environment protection materials required by GCB
Requirements: Skilled in foreign language (English & Japanese); experience in translation; time-abundant
d. Recruit Volunteers as Editors
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for editing/proofreading/typesetting the publications of GCB
Requirements: Excellent skills for written Chinese; experience in text editing; familiar with office software
e. Recruit Volunteers as website technicians
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Free
Job Description: *Responsible for constructing and maintaining GCB website in Chinese& English;
*Responsible for website picture releasing/ browsing systems programmingiPHP{MySQL 4.1j.
Requirements: Basis in computer; familiar with webpage making and programming; experience in art designing
2. Volunteer Ability Construction
GCB is planning a long term ability constructing project in ways of lecturing, training, practicing and exercising to develop college students with the knowledge of the present and future of nongovernmental organizations, capacity and experience in program implementation, identification with the ideology of NGO and dedication to public welfare. The project will be first experimented in Northwest Normal University.
Recruit 3 College Student Volunteers as Ability Development Training Coordinators
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assist project executive officers with periodic training;
*Contact with the trainees regularly for feedback;
*Summary feedback into reports;
*Responsible for coordinating previous publicity, registration etc. of each training
Requirements: Students from Northwest Normal University ONLY; experience in organizing relevant association activities; time-abundant
3. Recruit Volunteers for Interest Groups
It is suggested that interest groups, such as mountaineering, bird watching, cycling, chorus and dancing, would be organized following the interests of volunteers themselves. Group activities would be called and organized by volunteers. All the groups would be provided with information exchange platform and necessary administrative support from GCB.
Recruit Volunteers as Interest Group Coordinate Leaders
Work Time: Weekends/holidays
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Responsible for determining activities of the interest groups;
*Maintain daily connections with the members;
*Organize group activities.
Requirements: nature-lover; obsess with public welfare; strong ability in organizing; good affinity; good communication and presentation skills
4. Recruit Volunteers for GCB programs
A. Green Community Project
Green Community is intent to raise environmental consciousness of community residents through environment education, propaganda and proposition, participation in environment protect activities; to advocate an environment-friendly and civilized life style bit by bit for constructing a community of green, civility and harmony. Presently GCB has carried out Green Community Project in Mingren Huayuan, Qilihe District. The main programs including environment education in kindergarten of Mingren Huayuan, Green Community posters making, kitchen waste compost experiment and publicizing activities for environment protection.
a. Recruit Volunteers for publicity art designing
Work Time: Free
Workplace: GCB office, Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Responsible for the content, design and drawing of the green show window monthly in green community;
*Assist the drawing of other posters
Requirements: Basis in art; time-abundant; familiar with drawing software
b. Recruit Volunteers for Preschool Environment Education
Work Time: Friday afternoons
Workplace: Kindergarten of Mingren Huayuan, Qilihe District in Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Participate in the design of teaching plans for environment education in kindergarten;
*Practice preschool environment education;
*Assure prompt teaching feedback
Requirements: Experience in environment education; time-abundant; devoting to preschool education; good communication and presentation skills
B. Gansu Water Environment Project
GCB focuses on drinking water safety of Liangjiawan communities in Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu. Under coordination of all interests, new drinking water intake point will be built for the village. It is estimated that clear drinking water would be available since August of this year. Meanwhile GCB is planning a long-term environment education in the village primary school for promoting the environmental consciousness of the students and neighborhoods.
a. Recruit Volunteers for Environment Education in Liangjiawan Village Primary School (Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu)
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Liangjiawan Village Primary School, Xigu District, Lanzhou, Gansu
Job Description: *Participate in the design and arrangement of teaching plan for environment education;
*Operate the environment education;
*Report back education situation regularly and attend informal discussion for feedback, etc.
Requirements: Interested in environment education; time-abundant
b. Recruit 5 City Water Environment Surveyors
Work Time: Free
Workplace: Lanzhou, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Assure the public participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment of the ongoing Gansu Water Environment Project;
*Participate in the survey and summarize report of paroxysmal environment events;
*Coordinate the preparatory of Lanzhou water environment informal discussions, etc.
Requirements: Environmental specialties or related experience; time-abundant
C. Gansu Earthquake Area Ecological Architecture and Rural Development Project
Three provinces, Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi were greatly affected by May 12 8.0 magnitude earthquake and Wen County was the most affected area in Gansu province, with 111 people were killed, 1394 people were injuries and 0.23 million of the total 0.25 million populations suffered. The massive earthquake also caused serious damage in basic facilities, as 0.54 million houses were damaged and more than 90% of the county houses were destroyed or became dangerous buildings. GCB is providing support in reconstruction work for the victims. Eco-architectures like straw-bale houses, light-steel houses and water-free toilets were popularized in Zhongmiao Township of Wen County by GCB. The project was not only largely saved construction cost, released depression in reconstruction and recovery production but also protected the local eco-environment and promoted the sustainable development of the community. Volunteers from all social classes are welcomed to join in the post-quake reconstruction work in target areas.
a. Recruit 1 or 2 Ecological Architecture Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than a month
Workplace: Chayuan Village & Yujiawan Village of Zhongmiao Township in Wen County, Longnan City, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Provide assistance to the construction of straw-bale houses, light-steel houses, water-free toilets or other permanent earthquake-resisting eco-architectures for target rural households;
*Solve constructive problems by communicating/discussing with experts;
*Direct practice for target households;
*Lecture basic knowledge in building eco-architectures for rural households and attempt into organizing local construction team;
*Generalize eco-architectures and direct the construction in other areas after finishing target area eco-architecture construction
Requirements:
*Concern about rural development in quake-hit zones;
*Able to bear hardships and long-term service in rural areas
*Good interpersonal and communication skills and team player
*Approval the ideas of eco-architecture (straw-bale, light-steel, water-free toilet, etc.);
*Architecture major or experience in relevant fields.
b. Recruit 1 or 2 Rural Development Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than half a month
Workplace: Chayuan Village & Yujiawan Village of Zhongmiao Township in Wen County, Longnan City, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Investigate the community structure and livelihood in target areas and problems that residents facing in post-quake reconstruction;
*Organize village group meetings, coordinate all interests in the community, and discuss details in program practicing and resource distribution in free talk;
*Explore rebuild schemes, ways of sustainable development such as ecotourism, eco-agriculture together with the villages;
*Promote other community cultural and educational activities.
Requirements:
*Concern about rural development in quake-hit zones;
*Able to bear hardships and long-term service in rural areas;
*Good interpersonal and communication skills and team player;
*Experience in social work and rural basic level work
D. Eco-agriculture and Cooperative Development Project
This project is planning to operate a sunflower planting-based eco-agriculture in Huining County of Gansu Province. The project will based on farm cooperatives, unifying improved varieties purchasing, technological supporting, recycling, processing and selling; creating a perfect social enterprise running mode of gNGO to cooperative to householdh; realizing the cooperation and mutual help between farmers through ability building campaigns; taking full advantage of crop characteristics and eco-agriculture technology to dwindle land salinization and decrease the pollution of soil and crops; and directing households the scientific and reasonable use of sunflower heads as feed, stalk as biogas source to develop a clear energy in rural area.
Recruit 2 Project Coordinators
Work Time: Each continuous volunteer serving should no less than a month
Workplace: Chaimen Township, Huining County, Gansu Prov.
Job Description: *Participate in the local agricultural activities, such as sunflower-planting etc.
*Organize special cooperative for sunflowers to enhance variety improvement and unified purchase and sale;
*Advance market-oriented operation for agricultural products such as sunflowers, help peasants making more profit through agricultural management;
*Promote other community cultural and educational activities.
Requirements:
*Knowledge in rural condition; obsess with public welfare; able to bear hardship in rural work;
*Approval the ideas of eco-agriculture, fair trade, etc.
*Experience in one or several following fields: Agricultural Planting; Farm Cooperative; Marketing; Urban Supporting Agriculture; Community College; Cooperative Law (basic knowledge is approved)
*Experience in social work and rural basic level work
Rewards for Volunteer Service:
*Access to the election of the Volunteer of the Year if your service time accumulated to as been requested;
*Chance to attend in relevant learning and training activities hold by GCB;
*Accommodations will be covered and a reasonable allowance will be offered during your service by Projects if you are not serving in Lanzhou.
Please send your resume with the post you applied to info@gcb.ngo.cn CC greencamelbell@gmail.com
Contact Person: Zhao Zhong
TEL: +86-13919244430
