—— The road of environmental protection of Tian, a non-governmental environmental protection ambassador of China.
As a rural woman from Xinxiang County, Henan Province, Tian worked hard for many years, rooted in the front line of environmental protection, and wrote a brilliant chapter of environmental protection in China with amazing perseverance and persistent belief. She is an internationally renowned environmental volunteer and the only winner in Asia who has won both the Ford International Environmental Award and the Glaiman Prize. He was received by Qu, Chairman of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the National People's Congress, and the Director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, and was praised by the United Nations Environment Program as the "Civil Environmental Ambassador" of China.
Tian is engaged in environmental protection as follows:
1. More than 90,000 yuan at its own expense, and 65 tons of used batteries were recovered.
1998, when she learned that the used batteries were harmful to human beings, she decided to recycle them at her own expense. She made 3,000 banners with green banners, and wrote down the address and telephone number of recycling used batteries: she made 600 transparent recycling boxes of used batteries and 50,000 environmental protection proposals, which were distributed to schools all over the city. He also issued a proposal entitled "Don't spoil the earth again" in Xinxiang Daily. Since then, Tian, with the simple feelings of an environmental volunteer and unprecedented concern for environmental protection, has walked the streets to recycle used batteries at a price of 2 cents a year. She also organized a large number of environmental protection publicity activities, using Earth Day, Environment Day and holidays to promote environmental protection, and let more people realize the harm of used batteries through television and newspapers. In the past five years, she personally invested more than 90,000 yuan to recycle 65 tons of used batteries, saving nearly 7 million square meters of land from the pollution of used batteries.
Two, actively carry out various environmental publicity practices and environmental education activities.
Tian used holidays to organize large-scale environmental protection publicity activities at his own expense throughout the province. In Zhengzhou and Xinxiang alone, he organized 38 large-scale activities, such as "10,000 people sign the green Olympic bid" and "Life Network loves environmental protection", with 260,000 participants. At the same time, she also volunteered to teach environmental protection knowledge to college students. In recent years, Tian visited more than 1 10 schools nationwide, and publicized environmental protection knowledge for more than 300,000 students, explaining the harm of used batteries, with a direct audience of more than 3.6 million people. Every winter and summer vacation, Tian Du organizes environmental protection volunteers to inspect environmental protection topics such as white pollution, river pollution and wetland protection at his own expense. In order to protect the mother river, Tian led more than 30 college students to walk150km along Weihe River, Renmin Shengli Canal, * * Production Canal, Qinhe River, Yellow River and other rivers, and conducted water pollution and water quality analysis. They fought face-to-face with the illegal sewage discharge behavior of sewage discharge enterprises and submitted 24 test reports to the higher-level environmental protection department, which provided a good foundation for further protecting the mother river and purifying the water source.
Third, create a professional environmental protection website "Tian Environmental Protection Network" ()
Xinxiang Environmental Volunteers Association, the first environmental protection mass organization in the province, was established.
In carrying out environmental publicity and education, Tian set up Xinxiang Environmental Volunteers Association, the first environmental protection mass organization in the province, at his own expense of more than 30,000 yuan, which is also the first environmental volunteers association initiated by farmers in China. At present, it has absorbed more than 654.38 million environmental protection volunteers, forming a scientific, professional and structured environmental protection network in the province, laying a more solid foundation for the environmental protection cause in the Central Plains. In order to attract more environmental protection volunteers and expand the scope, she used modern propaganda tools, and in September of 20001year, she invested more than 20,000 yuan to set up the first professional environmental protection website hosted by farmers in China-Tian Environmental Protection Network (http://www.greentian.org/) to publicize the latest and fastest environmental protection trends. Up to now, 220,000 people have logged on the website, and more than 3,000 emails have been sent out one after another asking about environmental protection issues. Tian patiently answered all the questions mentioned in the email.
Tian's advanced deeds of being enthusiastic about environmental protection have had strong repercussions in many countries and internationally. More than 300 domestic and foreign news media, such as Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People's Daily and China Environmental News, have repeatedly reported Tian's enthusiastic deeds of environmental protection. CCTV alone has seven columns including Focus Interview, Oriental Time and Space, and News Network to broadcast her deeds. The Los Angeles Times, a foreign newspaper owned by The New York Times, went to China to interview this legendary rural woman in China.
After Tian's environmental deeds were disclosed by the news media, a nationwide environmental protection upsurge was set off. Environmental volunteers from all over the country competed to learn and set up environmental protection organizations to carry out environmental protection activities, which greatly promoted the vigorous development of non-governmental environmental protection organizations in China. However, Tian paid an unimaginable price for a series of environmental protection activities, such as recycling 65 tons of waste batteries, building websites, setting up associations and protecting the mother river. Her body is exhausted from severe arthritis, nervous headache and constant injuries. Her family worked hard to save 250,000 yuan for decades, all of which were invested in environmental protection, but she was not intimidated by difficulties. She said: "Life is endless, and environmental protection is not limited! As long as I have breath, I will do environmental protection to the end! I just want to take an environmentally friendly road that no one has ever walked! " Although the road ahead is still long and difficult, Tian, a rural woman in China, is still so persistent and determined to protect the environment. She'll keep going, keep going ...
Haha, more deeds!