Empower 50,000 Young Green Ambassadors in China

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Dec 19, 2011

Our new video 'The secret lives of our clothes'

By Ina Kukovic - Project Manager

Dear Global Giving friends,

We are very happy to announce our new video 'The secret lives of our clothes', that we created to help consumers around the world to understand their impact and their real purchasing power. We all know that there is a price tag that’s being hidden from us every day. Not the one that tells us how much money to pay, but the one that adds up the hidden costs, like sweatshop labor, industrial pollution, and toxic chemicals in products. Check out GECKO's new video to find out the hidden price of your jeans! http://www.greennovate.org/ the-secret-lives-of-our-clothes

You've been supporting our non-profit community initiative for the past 2 years. Our GECKO program initially offered innovative educational lessons, to students attending high school and university around China. The scheme’s main objectives were to inspire pupils to become green ambassadors within their own communities and to assist in potential career choices, by familiarising young people with local industries supportive of environmental progress. Since its founding, GECKO has reached out to over 20,000 students in more than 100 schools in 14 provinces throughout China.

GECKO’s encouraging start led our team to expand our efforts and develop an e-learning platform to make the curriculum more accessible to the masses. In August 2011, GECKO Online, a series of virtual animated environmental lectures were released, with the purpose of offering free educational resources to anyone with a keen green interest. So far, lectures have been created on www.greennovate.org with the following topics in English and Chinese; Lessons from the Past, Energy for the Future, Solving Sustainability Challenges, The Journey of Sustainable Business and The Secret lives of our clothes. Moving forwards, GECKO Online will provide a new lesson each month, addressing most urgent topics around food, waste, cosmetics, water and so on.

Our lessons have been viewed not only in China, but almost half of the visitors are now coming from abroad. If you would like to follow our progress and help us spread the word, please like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gecko-Online/180489448699876 or join us on Twitter @greennovate.

We hope to increase our impact and reach viewers both throughout China and abroad, helping to inspire people everywhere and help foster a generation who understand and appreciate the value of sustainability.

Thank you all for your support!

The Greennovate team

Links:

The Secret Lives Of Our Clothes

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Dec 13, 2011

Green Footprints critical mass in Guangzhou

By Ina Kukovic - Ina Kukovic

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 on Xiaoguwei Island. It was a great turnout and a true team-bonding experience for everyone.

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Sep 12, 2011

Launching GECKO Online Platform

By Ina Kukovic - greenINA

Dear supporters,

We have exciting news! We have been working on putting our best environmental lectures online, and with the generous help of the adventurous Wheel2Wheel team we are launching our GECKO online platform this month.

We were developing, programming and discussing all summer and the first three lectures are ready: Lesson from the Past, Solving Sustainability Challenges and Energy for the Future. The main goal of our e-learning platform is to offer free educational resources for everyone interested in sustainability to help them connect the dots on relevant topics. It will also be used to supplement the efforts of our GECKO trainers who are teaching about the environment all throughout China. We believe the combination of the platform and our trainers will extend our outreach and create a bigger impact in terms of raising environmental awareness. For more information, check out www.greennovate.org.

Links:

http://www.greennovate.org/gecko-e-learning

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