Funds from a Green group in Germany have paid for a van that tours Beijing area schools, entertaining children with eco-games and videos. A partnership with Project Hope opens the doors to thousands of rural schools, where Liang plans to send volunteers to teach the Green dictum. And our skies are dark. Still he refuses to give up hope. I can see a real difference since we started our work, especially in the attitudes of the general public towards environmental issues.
People are more sympathetic, more thoughtful, more understanding.
It sometimes may not seem like much, but it's a seed. And from the tiny acorn, big trees grow. Ron Gluckman is an American reporter who has been based in Hong Kong since 1990, when he began visiting China for a wide variety of publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, which ran this story in July 2000.