Our e-learning platform on sustainability came in second for the 2011 Multimedia Projects for Environmental Conservation Award, under the Ford Conservation & Environmental Grants, China (CEGC) for our abbreviated 3-minute version of Lessons from the Past animated video about Easter Island and how its historical environmental collapse points to parallels in our world today. We are extremely happy about this recent achievement...

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It is a new year and a new beginning! We have just moved to a new office space on Shaoxing Lu and will be having a small opening event on 12th Jan (Thursday) to grace the space and screen our latest lesson 'The Secret Lives of Our Clothes'! Event begins around 7pm (Doors open at 6.30pm) at 3/F, No. 3, Lane 47, Shaoxing Lu (close to Shaanxi Nan Lu) 绍兴路47弄3号3 楼， 近陕西南路. Please RSVP to: feifeilan@hotmail.com.
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With all the business + sustainability training we've been doing with FedEx in 6 cities throughout China since September, we thought we'd do something a little different to break the office monotony, and bring what we teach to the great outdoors. Together with Biker Guangzhou, a local environmental group that has been promoting green commuting in Guangzhou City, we organized a community bike ride for about 60 FedEx employees with their friends and family at the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre where 10 local institutions are located...

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Dear friends and partners, WE ARE MOVING!!!  We are proud to announce our new partnerships with XinDanWei and The Wellness Works. Together, we are launching a creative space concept called Grasslands this December. The aim is to bring other like-minded social entrepreneurs, freedom fighters, environmentalists, health advocates, sustainability consultants, wellness practitioners, and human-centered designers under one roof. Our new office and event space is now at 47 Shaoxing...

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Even though it was a Saturday, the Shenzhen FedEx Green Team made time to train with us Greennovators and even brought their kids in tow for the latest sojourn of the Green Footprints Program. Our youngest Greennovator-in-training was just under 2-years-old. While we got the parents thinking and innovating about implementing sustainability into their daily work processes, we got the kids dreaming about what their future green city would look like 50 years from now. The end product? One eight-year-old's imagination brought to life on paper: a city full of heart-shaped trees, renewable energy...

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Yesterday evening, we hosted a salon with the help of environmental student group Green Wind at an independent bookshop (荒野书店). We even met with a company there that is promoting composting technology for home + professional use in China that turns food waste into organic fertilizer! We were duly impressed by the skill, proactivity and knowledge existing with companies, environmental organizations and grassroots groups in Shenzhen. Most importantly, the salon we hosted truly got people connecting and mingling on a very deep level. We created what in the corporate world would call 'synergy'....

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Next stop - Shenzhen！ The Greennovate team will be gracing her special economic shores next Fri on 9th Dec to host a networking event from 7-9pm to talk about "What is Sustainability + how to get there" at local bookshop hangout 荒野书店， 深圳南山区桂庙新村31栋2楼. To rsvp, please email nijoint@gmail.com. (more...)

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We revisited the FedEx Green Team in Wuhan and inspired the group to become green ambassadors to their office. During our impact-o-meter workshop, several volunteers were already thinking of implementing guidelines and recommendations concerning energy conservation i.e. key actions when it comes switching off the lights and electronic appliances when not in use. They were just one step behind turning these instructions into office policy. However, the marketing department  who were present for the training were already one step ahead. In May, they had already proposed establishing an online system...

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Thanks to the organizational efforts of our Wuhan-based Greennovate volunteer, Chichi, we networked with 20 students from various grassroots environmental initiatives to discuss a range of relevant subjects that ran the gamut from LOHAS lifestyles  and individual action to corporate irresponsibility and consumer misinformation. It was nonetheless an optimistic dialogue that bred several opinions on environmental education. Most agreed that education was an important foundation to sustainable development, while others begged to differ, citing the act of 'doing' as being more effective. We believe...

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We teamed up with MyLuxBox to ask Chinese female shoppers what influences their consumer choices when it comes to responsible products. We defined what a responsible product is before the survey, so there was no misunderstanding. In the past few years, several consumer insights within the 20-25 year old age group have had a similar outcome: Consumers in China care. There is a growing concern about what they put in and on their bodies. Since their lives are affected by pollution on daily basis, they want to know how they can increase their...

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