I'm now in Yi Yang city Hunan Province. Our city is small and not as clean as the big city.
Some people lacks environment mind. They casually throw garbage down the street, even include gum.
I really hate this behavior. I think it is good to put the environment idea to the school students. And we'll do the thing we can do to protect our environment.

@fluteou,

Nice to hear from you:)
The sense of environment protection might have some connection with people's education level.
In this sense, our educational institutes should take the responsibility to preach the importance of environment and the way to protect it.
It's really vital to wake as much people as possible.

Hi the 1st floor~~
I come from Hunan province, perhaps Changsha is not very clean too and some citizens lack the awareness but I think students do better than them.
And now, I am at Beijing, though there is fewer garbage at these city's street, but the air is not as clean as Changsha, a lot of dust floatting in the air, and the trees are fewer than Changsha too.
At Beijing's suburb, there is no garbage bin and garbage fly in the air at windy day. I think some infrastructures are not enough.
What I can do for the environment?
just don't waste natural resources and reduce the use of plastic bags

VC
what is the code for the "click to see the related ..."
I'm interested in it....

Here are some expressions of issues on environmental protection, hope they can be helpful for your talks.
http://www.51test.net/show.asp?id=17442
http://bbs.green-stone.org/cn/read.php?tid=3711

BTW, 缺乏环保意识：lack awareness of environmental protection/protecting the environment

@hhfish: "At Beijing's suburb, there is no garbage bin and garbage fly in the air at windy day?"
Is that true, how come the situation is so disappointing?
I can't imagine what it look like if trash are disposed at random.

Yes,I am living at Dongbeiwang.When I go to work, about 15 minutes, there isn't any garbage bin, I have to put the plastic bag of my breakfast to our company to dispose it.

Hi, fish,

As you said, big city's envionment is not so good as small cities. The seasons are: bigger the city is, more cars there are, and more polluting offgas exhausted into the air, more dusty smokes we can see and feel.
To be aware of environmental protection and the aggravating circumstances is the least thing we can do. And try to pass this awareness down to others.

BTW, the code includes some javascripts. If you want, I can share. Talk to me via OICQ.

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hhfish: Yes,I am living at Dongbeiwang.When I go to work, about 15 minutes, there isn't any garbage bin, I have to put the plastic bag of my breakfast to our company to dispose it.
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That's terrible :(

Thank you for inviting me to join in the discussion~~
I am now studying in Shanghai,personally,I think Shanghai's environment situation is far from satisfactory.Especially in the downtown area,there are so many people that it is impossilble to reach the environmental standard like other foreign countries.Trashes are often seen on the street,smokey offgas exhausted by cars and trucks are so common that people are too lazy to hide from it.
I think there is a long long way to go to improve the current situation,the only thing we can do is to do our best not to pollute the environment ourselves and then take any possible chances to publicize the importance of environment protection~~

I can still see a lot of garbge on the street.This phenomenon is more serious in small cities than in big ones.
Personally,this is partly because of people's lacking of environmental protection sense.
AS for government, they should advocate people to protect our nearly damadged plannet, as well as carrying out some timely solution to purify the environment.
As for us ,individuals in this environment,we should mind our manners both in and off home.

Well, I study in Shenyang now, and the weather in Shenyang is also makes me disappointed. Now, the 2008 Olympics is coming, and in Shenyang,there will be hold the football competition. I really hope people can pay more attention to the environment, and help to make a successful Olympic Game.

yeah,it's time to protect our earth .I think just do it from ourselves.there are many things we can do,for example,we don't throw the garbage any where,and if we see the garbage,we can pick it up.what's more, more and more people have cars,it creats two serious problem. one is air pollution,another is traffic jam.To solve them,we should commute to work,such as subway,bus and so on.Today,I heard a news that the gas price are incresed. so if we reduce the times of driving cars,e can save our money and fuel.You can kill two birds with one stone.I belive if we try our best, the world is becoming much beautiful.

@babaaza:

What an interesting name you have!
Can I know the story behind it? ha ha~~
Vehicles creat three serious problems, I think.
They are offgas aggravating air pollution, Traffic jam and sound pollution.

Although there are many bad situations for our environment, still there are many students like us concern about this.
i think if we protect our enviroment and love our homestead. our passion will infect the people arround us. so better days will comes soon.

@SoniaTang

I have been in Shenyang for several days for railway transfer. The impression I have of Shenyang is extremly big! And the population is not so big.
Although Shenyang is not so crowd as in Shanghai, but the street is dirtier.
I don't know how come it would be like that.

@pass_pass,

i appreciate your possitive attitude! Sometimes, attitude can really change a thing.

@纯也：

When I was in middle school, I learned from a TV programme that Japanese have different sort of trash bin for various trashes.
But untill now, chinese people hardly can seperate a recoverable bottle from others.

I think it is not easy to change the awarness of the old generation.
medium should play the actice role in proganda to enhance the public awareness. Gov't should be responsible for the facilities, such as trash bins as you mentioned...

what we have to is behave ourselves. hehe...a little bit negative...

Well, sometimes I just wonder why many of our young people just ascribe the responsiblity to the gov't, the media or the public instead of themselves.Most students ignore presenting their own efforts in their writing exams, and that's part of the reasons why they got lower scores than those who express constructively.
Say, What can we do to develop ecotourism? Can we do sth from ourselves? Sure,we'd better not spit everywhere, not throw plastic bags and other wastes casually,nor spoil the local plants.
Writing is an essential and helpful way to improve language competence, but bear in mind that everything is better to be expressed in a realistic mood.

I have seen every word of you say, it's good. sometimes we should do something but complain.

I know, there will be a forbiddance about plastic bags in supermarket since 2008.6.1, we must use recycle bags or we should pay for the plastic bags.

the other thing is using disposable chopsticks, in fact, they are not clean, they just convenient. we'd better use our chopsticks when we take fast food in the office or in the home, it's not too inconvenient.o(∩_∩)o...

now i am studing in nanchang university ...i was very happy and curiously before i come into this school .but now i feel disappointed by the environment of the school .The badest thing is that the habit of the nanchang people are so terrible! they have the habit of spit expectoration....i hate this !all of them are undergraduate.they know this hahit is bad for themself also bad for the other people.how can they do that!

Well, this is a really good topic. I’m living in Beijing now, traffic and pollution is a big problem, sand storm visit Beijing almost every year and increased the cars made the street become more and more narrow, but we happy to see the environment and traffic have improved a lot in these years, government plant trees and grass in naked earth and the citizens have more and more awareness to protect the environment, even have less people leave around everywhere. Traffic also improved a lot, the new subway line five improved the traffic from TTY area to south city, and even the passengers in the box jammed like sardine can. But finally we have it!

OK, I saw almost people was talking about their City, then I expect to talk a little about our gov.
"Stop Pollution" & "Safe earth" & "Global Warming" many many words like that show up in our life. Then gov preach us to start action from little things. And we follow up.

But... you could always hear the gov destroy any illegal production by burning. Such as fireworks, CD, smokable etc. I do understand it the easiest method to destroy something. However, burning goods releases more and more pollution into our earth... This method makes our effort gone.

Yeah. I have seen what you listed above.
Shanghai is a big city and you will be suprised how beautiful the streets are. But you have to remember that this is a city that so many people live in, which means there is always something dark you neglect unconsciously but do exist, such as trashes and exhausted offgas of the cars. What can we do with them? Give up the car and take bus from now on? It is not the way to solve the problem.

@Vitamin_C
yeah,that's true.
i think, given it more time,we'll make it.
when i was in some interests,i saw many people did so.

I know exactly that there're always some environmental problems around me, here and there. But I never take any attention to it.
However, it doesn't mean I have no sense of protecting the environment. I think if you really care the surroundings you live in, you should firstly pay attention to your own behavior, which I think is the prerequisite of helping the environment. Then, if you have a strong sense of responsibility as a citizen, you could do whatever you think is helpful to the city.
I hate being in a dusty place, so I hate Nanjing...

since i have studied in Wuhan for three years,i never got a very good impression on this big city in terms of environmental protection.
big city maybe means more trash more gas more energy waste but little environment consiousness.
expercially around many univeristies the situation are deteriorated gradually.this is a uncommon phenomone for a hige educated student eating around a ugly worsing outlet bar or small resturant.

just imaging what would be like if we don't protect our enviormental. just like a coin has two sides, develop ecnomic to be positive aspect and negative aspect.instead of destroying land forests rivals.planting more trees, redcuing pollutive gas. it must be a long journay let.s do it together

I must say although environment nowadays has been a hot issue in China and some actions are already being taken, but still there is no much significant changes to meet the expectation for a better envrionment. In my opinion, in order to have some tangible achievement, regulators need to exert more stringent laws to protect enviornment from being polluted by industrial activities, which is the major source of various pollutants. To do this , government also ought to resolve not to sacrifice environment for economic's sake, which is the main barrier in the way of enforce the environmental regulations.It must be made clear that there is no justification for any activity that could possibly do harm to the envrionment.Another urgent need is to propagate the notion of how important and necessary for the public to do their share to save the envrionment. Trivial it may be , such as recycle battery, less driving , but it is worth of doing, for everyone's effort will eventually add to the purpose of alleviate the level of pollution.The media should take their turn to make the idea embed in everyone's mined that it is everyone's responsibilty of do that, and they do can make significant change for the good of envrionment, finally, by stick to it in everyday's life.

Most people in China tend to follow others,especially in some bad actions.Because following others' bad habit,they won't feel shame and they needn't to bear any responsibility.And someone maybe have the consciousness
of protect environment,but people around may effect him.So the essential way is to change people's mind and habit.

@牛肉干干

Since the Super Market stop providing free plastic bags, we have to pay for it! That's not even fair to customers!
And I do believe recoverable bags costs more!

@水静流深

Spitting or Expectoration in public is considered rude and a social taboo in many part of the world. And Spitting is a way of transmission infectious diseases such as Atypical pneumonia. The colleage students is supposed to understand this coz' they're well educated.
According to your words, they're really terrible.

@meizhiyuan

I like the metaphor "passenger jammed together like sardine." Ha ha. So vivid!

@Spike

You really mentioned an interesting fact our gov. did. How ironic!

@小五

Streets in Shanghai are not so clean in my eyes. My hometown is Ningbo, a medium-sized coastal city. And it is much cleaner than Shanghai.
When I came to Shanghai, one thing really give me an alarm is that I saw a motorcycle driving in the street.
You know, motorcycle is banned in Ningbo for almost 3 years. The reason is simply: fast driven motorcycle can be dangerous as to traffic and the severe offgas pollution.

@chensun007

What you've said is great!
Given the same wish of improving our environment, our government and every single person should take the responsibility and do the job required to be done.
For gov., make law to protect environment and punish ones exhausing pollution. All the efforts will make our world a better place.

Today' s VOA is about the World Health Day related eviroment problem.
the woman speak clearly and slowly, I almost get every word, so happy.

protecting our environment is not only the responsibity of governments or big groups, but also is the responsibity of every person.referring to environmental contamination, soem people deemed that it is far from our daily life. beginning with the tiny things, individual can do more contribution for our mutural environment.

@ 牛肉干干：
Glad to hear that! Hope you can enjoy VOA.

Environmental protection is the duty of everyone.
However when we walk on the road and see some trash, we are not willing to pick it up. I think there are several reasons. We are used to consider it the cleaners' work. On the other hand, we feel shy to do so, especially when there is some person beside. So maybe we should change our mind and strengthen our sense of environmenal protection. The most important thing is that we should take measures to forbid people to litter or make more pollution.

thanks for inviting me here !
in my opinion, i think environment protection is really a serious and pressing problem today. we have suffered from the damage we did before to environment: more and more people get cancer; animals get diminished. water we drink daily is not as clean as before; air we take in is being polluted day by day;food we live on is getting unhealthier. all of these have made us afraid of the world we live in! we must to do something about it!
what's more, in my city, the air in and out of my school are different that i can obviously feel that. and if u go to the center of the city and after u come back u will feel that yourself is so dirty all around. so unless we have to or we just stay at school.
to protect the environment, i think first we must behave well and at the same time influence others to do so as well!

Up above there is heaven;down below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou. I live in Suzhou now,but I don't think the enviornment of Suzhou is optimism. There are so many garbage on the chinglish streets and lanes.And the beautiful city is come from sanitation workers' hands.
I just want say that ,do what we should do to protect the inviornment. We can't change others,but we maybe affect them.

To ling86
I agree with you, sometimes we are so shy to do it, you can see people throw trash in the public, but you can do nothing, just curse these bad guy in your heart.

I considered that protection of the enviorment depends on WHO YOU ARE but not WHERE YOU ARE.

You can choose to be a protector or just leave these things to the other one.

Believed in Butterfly Effect,every little things can change a lot.

i am agree with Cricket's opinion!~the enviorment depends on WHO YOU ARE but not WHERE YOU ARE.

I enjoy an advertisement actors by PuCunxi. In the advertisement he says,if everybody improves ourself a littler, our society will have a big process.
So do as you can to protect our enviroment.

I think what i can do is to do my job,the world is that bigand no singal person can change it,but people can! so just do my work right!!!

I feel lucky that I'm in Guizhou University.Though the awareness of environment protection here is not very high,the environment in Guiyang is perfect,especially the Huaxi District where we live.There are amouts of trees here.
As to what we can do,I think that we should start from ourself,bit by bit from the start.We can't let someone not litter things ,but we can control ourself not to throw rubbish about.It will help,and it will.

It's the first time I take part in the program.I'm so thankful If anyone may figure the mistakes out.