Here’s the footage…and the lyrics below.

Let’s look into the future and see the opportunity
Wind turbines will spin with great velocity
Solar panels will provide a clean revolution
To wean us off coal, and get rid of the pollution
Solar wind geo bio all on the table
But they are missing the tech to enable
A paradigm shift, power grid face lift
Better be swift, clean energy’s a gift
That must be delivered in a different way
Distributed and digitized, wouldn’t you say?

New energy is cool and all but I have to beg your pardon
Cause in the end it’s all about the carbon
We have to account for the emissions we made
Gonna be a carbon price under cap and trade
CDM, CER, AAU, EUA,
It’s a new language, parlez vous carbonais?
Supplementarity caps and additionality
Rising emissions are a solemn reality
So many targets that are yet unmet
Psh, have you ever even bought a carbon offset?
Yo but for real we gotta keep our heads straight
There are so many emissions that we must abate
What will be decided at Copenhagen?
All the results you know I’ll be blogging
2012 I’m not sure if we can wait
The earth’s warming faster, we can’t be too late
But the world is changing, now Obama’s leading
It’s the sun’s energy off which we’ll be feeding
Financial crisis here, but we won’t back down
Put a smile on your face, I don’t want to see no frown
Clean energy is the future, we all know that
Global warming’s going down, ‘nuf said about that.

我想说，表示一些东子 Let me express some things
可再生能源会改善我们的空气 Clean energy is gonna clean the air
石油低价, 金融危机都不怕 We’re not afraid of oil’s low price or the financial crisis
新能源的道路都是发发 The road of new energy is prosperous
哟太阳能。天下来的一个好梦 Solar energy, it’s a dream come down from heaven
风能。自然的流通，从热到冷 Wind energy, just a natural flow from hot to cold
生物能，就把回收提高一层 Biomass energy, it’s like recycling but better
地热能，那个资源很有可能 Geothermal energy, oh that resource’s potential!

可再生能源是一个关键 Clean energy is one key element
但是不要忘别的方面 But let’s not forget the other aspects
环境保护包括生活方式 Environmental protection includes your lifestyle
怎么让它做得更绿色 How can make it greener?
右手，我的交通卡 In my right hand, I got my bus card
左手，我的环保袋 In my left hand, I got my reusable bag
绿色英雄的两个武器 A green hero’s two weapons
简单的改变肯定有意义 Simple changes are meaningful

美国人和中国人都有责任 USA and China both have responsibilities
是两个国家还是我们？ It’s not too countries, it’s us together as one!
咱们互相建造低碳的城市 Let’s build together low carbon cities
把每个兄弟姐妹变成绿色 Turn every brother and sister into a green one!

Shane is back in Beijing for the summer, so hopefully we will be producing a couple more videos. He is also helping to organize the International Youth Summit on Climate Change, which takes place on July 18-19 so watch this space for more info on that.

Without further ado… our latest video: Geothermal energy in Beijing!

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You might not know it, but not all buildings in Beijing are heated using natural gas or coal. Some are heated (and some cooled as well) using geothermal energy. China’s Green Beat takes you around Beijing to explore two main technologies being used: deep well geothermal and ground source heat pumps.

China’s Green Beat - Geothermal Heating and Cooling in Beijing from John Romankiewicz on Vimeo.

For more information on The Nature Conservancy’s China program, please click here.

众所周知，9月22日是世界无车日，而昆明是全国首个施行“月月无车日”的城市。自去年9月世界无车日后，昆明就把每月最后一个周六定为无车日。在无车日这天从早上9点到下午5点，共8个小时，主城一环内只对自行车、公共汽车、出租车、特种车辆及其他公共交通车开放。全市公务车一律封存，私家车则遵行车牌尾数为单号的逢单月时可进入一环；逢双月时，则车牌尾数双号可通行。另外，还规定17座以上的客车满座率在50%以上可自由出入禁行区域。

September 22 was “No Car Day” around the world, but Kunming is the only Chinese city to have a “No Car Day” every month, held on the last Saturday from 9am to 5pm. The policy has its limitations, of course. Rather than fully banning cars throughout the entire city, only private cars are forbidden to enter the first ring road. Taxis, buses, bikes, scooters, and special purpose vehicles (or vehicles with greater than 17 seats that are more than 50% full) are allowed to travel anywhere in the city. Additionally, cars with odd plates can drive on odd months (even plates on even months) between the first and second ring roads. Any car can drive outside of the second ring.

The policy seems to have mixed results. On September 22, the Kunming Environmental Bureau reported much better air quality due to the limitation of private cars. “Carbon monoxide levels dropped 32.9 percent, nitrogen dioxide levels dropped 45.1 percent, ozone was down 39.5 percent, carbon dioxide was down 15.4 percent and airborne particulate matter was reduced by more than one-fifth.” (source) On the same day, the BBC reported Beijing drivers as having all but ignored the call for No Car Day, where the event was voluntary and not enforced as in Kunming. Having reported on April’s No Car Day, it was already the sixth monthly No Car Day. Most people that China’s Green Beat spoke with said that they had gotten used to the policy by now and adjusted their patterns by either taking public transport, not planning major shopping or events on those days, or borrowing their friends’ even-numbered plate car for the even-numbered month.

In China, packaging for consumer products is often excessive and gorgeous. Packaging creates a huge amount of waste, how can we get rid of this problem?  First we must consider why do Chinese manufacturers always put layer after layer of packaging on their products.  They must think the consumers are requesting all this packaging.  But do they?  If they do, why? In this short film, the Green Sisters investigate these questions using statistics, policy, interviews with customers and salespeoples, as well as a look at how the culture of gift-giving in China plays into the question.

在中国，很多产品的包装过多过”华丽”。这是一个很浪费的现象,可是怎么改善这样的问题呢? 首先, 我们必须学习为什么中国制造业会喜欢用一层又一层的包装。我们认为是因为制造业认为市场需要这么多的包装，即消费者要求产品有这么多的包装。但是中国的消费者真的喜欢那么多的包装吗？如果答案是肯定的，这背后又有什么原因呢？我们将在我们的短片中简单探讨这些问题，我们会采集 包装统计, 政策资料, 采访顾客、商人, 并探讨中国面子的文化/送礼物的文化。

Beijing International Theatre & Entertainment (BITE) in conjunction with China’s Green Beat will be performing the “Lean, Mean and Green” comedy to entertain audiences as well as to raise awareness about the environmental and business solutions. The hilarious show uses a Reality TV show format to discuss about the environment, poking fun at both environmentalists and industrialists. “Environmental pollution is everyone’s problem, and it’s particularly obvious here in Beijing. Modern media is displaying the debate with such doom and gloom which doesn’t solve anything. We are showcasing it using laughter and showing positive solutions. This will have an impact!” said Rene Ng, Director of “Lean, Mean and Green.” The play will be filmed and showcased online at a later date.

The “Lean, Mean and Green” shows will be performed on June 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:30pm at Obiwan Bar, located at Xihai Xiyan No.4 Xicheng District. A map of the location can be found here: Lean Mean and Green location map

Tickets are RMB100 each. Discounted tickets are offered to Ex-pat students for RMB50 each and Chinese students for RMB30 each.

For more information, please contact the BITE Group at beijingtheatre **AT** gmail DOT com

It has been awhile since we have updated our viewers with news or given you new content, but rest assured the Green Brothers have been hard at work the past few months. Our biggest news is that we are now in cooperation with China Dialogue, a premier bilingual site on the environment that focuses on Chinese and global issues. Through our cooperation agreement, we set up a conference in Beijing and selected 30 Chinese students (10 from Beijing, 20 from other cities ranging from Urumqi to Haikou, from Kunming to Harbin) to attend and receive training in how to make a China’s Green Beat video, a video that teaches the viewer about environmental solutions and engages them to take action. Over the next two months, new content will be released on China’s Green Beat and China Dialogue websites that was produced as a result of this conference and the efforts of students all across China. Here is a preview of what’s ahead.

中国绿色脉搏已经有一段时间没有推出新的视频了。但是，请大家放心，经过绿色兄弟过去几个月的努力，我们即将有最新的内容推出，我们现在正在和中外对话合作，准备推出我们的系列视频。中外对话是中国首个中英双语的关注于中国与世界的环境问题的网站。在我们的合作中，我们举办了中国绿色脉搏和中外对话第一届视频培训会议。经过报名选拔，我们选出了来自全国各地的30名中国学生（ 其中10名来自北京， 20名来自其它城市，他们来自全国各地，有从乌鲁木齐到海口，从昆明到哈尔滨等）参加我们的培训会议。在会中，我们告诉他们如何制作绿色视频，如何使自己的视频具有教育性，使观看者能了解一些解决环境问题的方法，最终能鼓励人们参与到行动当中。在会后的两个月内，视频系列将在中国绿色脉搏和中外对话的网站上播出。这些视频全部由来自全国的参会学生制作而成。如果你想提前了解我们的视频系列，请看我们的预告片。

Schedule

June 3 - Sun Zhe’s Public Transportation Adventures

June 10 - Wind Power in China

June 17 - Green Dating Gone Wrong in Beijing

June 24 - Excessive Packaging in Shanghai

July 1 - Hong Kong: Consumed!

July 8 - No Car Day in Kunming

6月3日 - 北京：孙哲公共交通历险记

6月10日 - 中国：风力发电

6月17日 - 北京：绿色约会泡汤了

6月24日 - 上海：过度包装

7月1日 - 香港:消耗了！

7月8日 - 昆明：无车日