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Students use World Expo to learn about low-carbon ideas
September 2, 2010, Thursday
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ZHEJIANG University students recently declared at the Hangzhou Pavilion that they would lead low-carbon lives.
They will collect low-carbon ideas from World Expo Shanghai and West Lake Expo in the coming three months and spread them to others.
Meanwhile, Hangzhou University students launched the Low-carbon Expo and Green West Lake Expo Action at the pavilion on Tuesday. They said a low-carbon life helps protect the environment.
The initiative started late last month and will continue until early November. The students are expected to participate in World Expo 2010 and West Lake Expo in Hangzhou as amateur journalists.
They will visit pavilions and speak to designers and officials to learn more about low-carbon ideas.
They are expected to write about in Hangzhou newspapers their discoveries in order to spread the word.
Twenty-three students from Zhejiang University's City College toured the Expo site and paid particular attention to the Hangzhou, London and Taipei cases in the Urban Best Practices Area.
They successfully discovered many low-carbon elements such as an air-conditioning system that consumes less electricity, electric buses with zero emissions and chairs made of recycled milk cartons.
The students also proposed a low-carbon lifestyle to the Expo. They recommended buying less unnecessary clothes, using less single-use items, taking the stairs instead of the elevator and participating in more tree-planting activities. The students said these simple ideas can be done by everybody.
"We can prove that a low-carbon life, using less energy and creating less pollution, can help us make a change for the future," said Zhang Tianxing, a Zhejiang University student. "Whether we can walk in the star-glazed night or in a dusty desert lies in our choices today."
The students expressed at the Expo their determination to lead a low-carbon lifestyle. They gained support from about 125 pavilions, each of which stamped a seal on the proposal.
"We hope we can gain more support from other pavilions," said Yu Quansheng, assistant to director of Hangzhou Pavilion, who is also a major sponsor of the low-carbon initiative.
Yu added that the proposal would be given to the UN Pavilion at the end of the Expo to show the sincerity of China's youth in working toward a greener future.
Huang Feng, deputy director of West Lake Expo Office and vice director of Hangzhou Pavilion at Expo, said the Hangzhou government is making every effort to achieve the goal of turning Hangzhou into a beautiful and environmentally friendly city.
"We hope that the students can learn more about leading a low-carbon life while visiting the Expo and become low-carbon practitioners themselves," Huang said. "They can help more people in Hangzhou accept these ideas and contribute to a greener city."
A series of activities involving low-carbon life will be launched during the West Lake Expo, which will be held from October 16 to November 6. Once again, students will be asked to participate in the events.
They will collect low-carbon ideas from World Expo Shanghai and West Lake Expo in the coming three months and spread them to others.
Meanwhile, Hangzhou University students launched the Low-carbon Expo and Green West Lake Expo Action at the pavilion on Tuesday. They said a low-carbon life helps protect the environment.
The initiative started late last month and will continue until early November. The students are expected to participate in World Expo 2010 and West Lake Expo in Hangzhou as amateur journalists.
They will visit pavilions and speak to designers and officials to learn more about low-carbon ideas.
They are expected to write about in Hangzhou newspapers their discoveries in order to spread the word.
Twenty-three students from Zhejiang University's City College toured the Expo site and paid particular attention to the Hangzhou, London and Taipei cases in the Urban Best Practices Area.
They successfully discovered many low-carbon elements such as an air-conditioning system that consumes less electricity, electric buses with zero emissions and chairs made of recycled milk cartons.
The students also proposed a low-carbon lifestyle to the Expo. They recommended buying less unnecessary clothes, using less single-use items, taking the stairs instead of the elevator and participating in more tree-planting activities. The students said these simple ideas can be done by everybody.
"We can prove that a low-carbon life, using less energy and creating less pollution, can help us make a change for the future," said Zhang Tianxing, a Zhejiang University student. "Whether we can walk in the star-glazed night or in a dusty desert lies in our choices today."
The students expressed at the Expo their determination to lead a low-carbon lifestyle. They gained support from about 125 pavilions, each of which stamped a seal on the proposal.
"We hope we can gain more support from other pavilions," said Yu Quansheng, assistant to director of Hangzhou Pavilion, who is also a major sponsor of the low-carbon initiative.
Yu added that the proposal would be given to the UN Pavilion at the end of the Expo to show the sincerity of China's youth in working toward a greener future.
Huang Feng, deputy director of West Lake Expo Office and vice director of Hangzhou Pavilion at Expo, said the Hangzhou government is making every effort to achieve the goal of turning Hangzhou into a beautiful and environmentally friendly city.
"We hope that the students can learn more about leading a low-carbon life while visiting the Expo and become low-carbon practitioners themselves," Huang said. "They can help more people in Hangzhou accept these ideas and contribute to a greener city."
A series of activities involving low-carbon life will be launched during the West Lake Expo, which will be held from October 16 to November 6. Once again, students will be asked to participate in the events.
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