Green Olympics in a narrow sense: Green Olympics in a narrow sense means that in the process of bidding, organizing and hosting the Olympic Games, and for a period of time after hosting the Olympic Games, the natural environment and ecological environment can develop in harmony with human society and should be directly affected by the Olympic Games. The contents mainly include ecological greening and environmental greening. The Olympic Charter requires the natural environment and ecological environment of the host city of the Olympic Games, so the narrow sense of green is what the host city of the Olympic Games must do, which also makes it one of the basic conditions for hosting the Olympic Games. Environmental problems have always been a big problem in Beijing, and many treatments are temporary solutions, such as Xiaoqing River (which flows through Boxing County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province). The improvement of the environment is not only the government's business, but the business of all Beijing citizens. Governance without protection will not have long-term effects.
Green Olympics in a broad sense: Green Olympics in a broad sense refers to the material and spiritual green related to the Olympic Games. The "green" here not only refers to the "green" in the narrow sense of the Green Olympics, but also refers to other ideas and practices that are in harmony with the development of nature and society. The content is very extensive, including material green and consciousness green.
2. Significance
"Green Olympics" is one of the three major themes of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and its connotation is:
We should use the idea of sustainable development to protect the environment, resources and ecological balance to guide the project construction, market development, procurement, logistics, accommodation, catering and large-scale activities of the Games, so as to minimize the negative impact on the environment and ecosystem;
We should actively support the government to strengthen environmental protection, reduce the number of rivers in municipal infrastructure, improve the urban ecological environment, and promote the sustained and coordinated development of economy, society and environment;
Make full use of the extensive influence of the Olympic Movement, carry out environmental protection publicity and education, promote public participation in environmental protection work, and raise the environmental awareness of the whole people;
After the Olympic Games, we will leave a rich environmental protection legacy for Beijing, China and the world sports: the Olympic green building demonstration project; A new model of environmental management for holding large-scale sports events: the mechanism for the public to actively participate in environmental protection; The continuous improvement of the environment in Beijing.
To sum up, the concept of sustainable development should run through the whole process of preparation, holding and post-competition utilization.
To achieve these goals, we need the support and participation of all walks of life and the general public, care about environmental quality, supervise environmental law enforcement, participate in policy suggestions and choose green life.
There is another meaning:
Wilbruggen described the preparations for the Beijing Olympic Games as a "green Olympics". He said that the "green Olympics" here not only refers to an idea of the Beijing Olympic Games, but also refers to the "green light" support of the China Municipal Government and the Beijing Municipal Government for the preparations for the Olympic Games. The venue construction, financial guarantee and market development of Beijing Olympic Games satisfy the IOC.
3. The relationship among green Olympics, people's Olympics and high-tech Olympics.
In a narrow sense, green Olympics, people's Olympics and high-tech Olympics are independent of each other and influence each other. Green Olympics embodies a kind of respect for nature, humanistic Olympics embodies the humanization of Olympics, and high-tech Olympics embodies modernization.
Broadly speaking, green Olympics, people's Olympics and high-tech Olympics intersect with each other. Although the two have different emphases, there is no obvious boundary, and they are closely related and inseparable. Green Olympics embodies the concepts of humanistic Olympics and high-tech Olympics. Humanistic Olympics needs green Olympics as the foundation and high-tech Olympics as the support, which is helpful to realize humanistic Olympics and green Olympics. Therefore, when we discuss the green Olympics, it will inevitably involve the categories of people's Olympics and high-tech Olympics.
Green Olympics, people's Olympics and high-tech Olympics are intertwined and inseparable. Green Olympics can be divided into narrow sense and broad sense. Green Olympics in a broad sense includes material green and consciousness green, while green Olympics in a narrow sense belongs to material green in a broad sense. The consideration of material green and consciousness green should be all-round.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of the Green Olympics
In the process of preparing for the Olympic Games after the 1960s, all countries are striding forward to the large-scale and modernization of buildings, but they pay little attention to the impact of these buildings on the city and the natural environment, which has brought some bad consequences to the host city and directly affected the development of the Olympic Movement itself.
In 1980s, both the IOC and the host city began to pay attention to environmental protection.
1993, when the IOC newly built the IOC Olympic Museum, it set the principle of not damaging the surrounding environment. At that time, in order to preserve an old oak tree, the designer revised the construction plan many times, and finally the old oak tree was preserved. This move triggered a heated discussion in the international community, marking the formal proposal of the concept of green Olympics.
1994 the international Olympic Committee lists the environment as the third pillar after education and culture.
From 65438 to 0996, the Olympic Charter listed environmental protection as one of the main tasks of the International Olympic Committee. In the same year, the International Olympic Committee set up the Environment Committee, requiring that the bidding city must have the conditions of urban beautification and elegant environment.
During the period of 1999, the programmatic document of Olympic environmental protection-Olympic Movement Agenda 2 1 century was adopted, and promoting sustainable development became one of the fundamental goals of the Olympic Movement.
The new trend of the International Olympic Committee on environmental protection and the new requirements for the environmental protection of the bidding cities have greatly inspired and promoted the environmental awareness and measures of the bidding cities and countries.
The theme of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is Green Olympics. )
[Edit this paragraph] Implementing the Green Olympics
How to implement the "Green Olympics";
[1, venues and transportation]
The construction of venues and transportation should be more humane. Scientific and economical, at the same time, we should give full consideration to the reuse before and after the Olympic Games to avoid causing economic development to the organizers. People's lives have caused unnecessary negative effects; All previous Olympic Games have attached great importance to the construction of venues and transportation, and there are always some original designs. For example, in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the location of Australia's national track and field was once the beef cattle storage area of the slaughterhouse. The canopy is specially designed for Australia's climate environment, so that athletes and spectators who participate in daytime competitions have enough light. There is also its unique environmental protection feature: the design of the sports ground considers natural ventilation and does not use any mechanical ventilation to erect it. Specially designed reflectors get maximum sunlight. Thereby reducing the need for artificial lighting. All rainwater is collected from the roof to four large water tanks for watering the venues, and the recovered water is used for flushing toilets. There are various water-saving devices everywhere on the playground. In the design of sports ground, the use of PVC is minimized, and all building materials have passed the service life cycle test. Natural gas generators that are beneficial to the environment are used as backup equipment for the main power supply. In addition, there are some special facilities designed for the disabled and other special groups. All these reflect the green of venue construction.
[2. Fund]
The funds for hosting the Olympic Games should also be green, and the investment in the Olympic Games should not be increased without foundation, which may have a great negative impact on the Olympic Games. The Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 and the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980 could not be recovered because of excessive investment, which had a great negative impact on the urban economy and residents.
[3, management]
Green Olympics requires that its management is also green. Manage the organization. Strictly control the composition of personnel and run the Olympic Games well with less resources. The Olympic Games will bring more employment opportunities to the host city, and many people will take part in it. How to use these resources and how to coordinate people and money? Everything is something that the organizers of the Olympic Games need to consider.
[4, events]
Olympic events have increased year by year, reaching 300. Many people are skeptical about the excessive increase of Olympic events and the excessive expansion of the Olympic scale, and think that this unlimited expansion will enhance the political nature of the Olympic Games. The weakening of appreciation runs counter to Mr. Coubertin's aim of establishing a modern Olympic movement, and such a trend may ruin the Olympic movement. Moreover, due to the Olympic Games' control over the number of individual gold medals, many new events entering the Olympic Games have to change their original appearance and compete in different forms, which may not be conducive to the development of the events themselves and may lead to the disappearance of the diversity of the events.
[5, sports nutrition supplements]
Exercise needs nutritional supplement, and exercise training needs effective recovery and improvement methods, but it cannot exceed the boundaries of prohibited drugs and prohibited methods stipulated by the IOC Drug Administration Committee. This is the green color of sports nutritional supplements. Of course, material green is not limited to these aspects. Only by fully mobilizing the functions of various materials and making the Olympic Games more in line with the requirements of the natural environment and social environment can it be called real material green.
[Edit this paragraph] Consciousness green
Conscious green includes the following three main contents:
[1, the consciousness of Olympic participants is green]
Participants in the Olympic Games, including organizers, referees, athletes and players, should have a good sense of green. The organizer's green consciousness is reflected in his macro-control and micro-transformation of the Olympic Games. The green consciousness of the referee is reflected in his grasp of the fairness and rationality of the game; The athlete's green consciousness is reflected in his understanding of fair party struggle and his requirements for higher, faster and stronger; The team members' green consciousness is reflected in their support and encouragement to the Olympic athletes and the host country.
(2) The green consciousness of residents in the host city of the Olympic Games.
People are the most active factor in productivity, and the people closest to the Olympic Games are one of the most active factors affecting the Olympic Games. At the same time, greening is very important for the residents of the Olympic Games host city. This kind of green consciousness is reflected in the overall quality of urban residents, their understanding of the Olympic Games, the degree of civilization, their recognition of internationalization and their demand for material and spiritual civilization.
[3. Olympic consciousness is green]
The existence of modern Olympic Games is different from that of ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Olympic Games were based on religious beliefs. Only with religious belief did the ancient Olympic Games exist for thousands of years. It was also because of the collapse of religious belief that the ancient Olympic Games declined and was later banned. The launch of the modern Olympic Games is not based on religious beliefs, but it is not without any other beliefs. Mr. Coubertin has always praised the educational value of the Olympic Movement and believed that young people should be educated in fair competition. He also attaches great importance to the amateurism of the Olympic Games. The early Olympic Charter also clearly stipulated that professional athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympic Games. Although today's amateur rules have been broken, the fundamental reason why the modern Olympic Games are enduring is that it provides a peaceful and fair competition place for the people of the world, and the educational value of this pure land still plays a role. Therefore, the most important thing for the green consciousness of Olympic understanding is to exclude religious beliefs from healthy beliefs in the educational function with scientific spirit, which requires excluding the influence of stimulants, bribery scandals and economic aggression on the pure land of the Olympic Games.
[Edit this paragraph] Related data
At the end of 1998, Beijing began the most powerful action of "declaring war on pollution" in history. In just two years, the average annual and daily concentrations of atmospheric sulfur dioxide in urban areas decreased by 4 1%, and the decrease of inhalable particulate matter was the lowest in 10 years, which achieved the expected goal approved by the State Council. In order to achieve this goal, Beijing invested 34 billion yuan, dozens of industrial enterprises moved out of the central city, dozens of enterprises that failed to meet the pollution discharge standards stopped production according to law, and pollution projects that invested tens of billions of yuan were cut. It took only three years to complete the greening task of 100 square kilometer isolated city.
The extensive participation of citizens is a landscape in Beijing's environmental governance under the banner of "Green Olympics". Last August, a "Green Olympics Action Plan" signed by the Beijing Municipal Government and 20 NGOs was officially launched. Nowadays, a childish voice often comes from outside Beijing residents' doors: "Auntie, do you have any waste batteries at home?" This is a "green angel" activity carried out by 830 thousand primary and secondary school students; The use of recycled paper business cards has become an environmental landscape for the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, the mayor and the municipal party and government departments. Build a "green community" activity, so that citizens can consciously resist "white pollution" and consciously implement garbage sorting; More and more people voluntarily go to the suburbs to plant and adopt various memorial forests. Before the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing will achieve 48% green coverage, 100% garbage disposal and 86% sewage treatment. "Green Olympics" makes Beijing greener and greener.
[Edit this paragraph] Participate in the "Green Olympics"
The first "Green Olympics China" environmental public welfare activity recently kicked off at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing. 6,543,800,000 environmental protection volunteers from 28 provinces (cities) across the country started their own different theme activities at the same time, * * * to warm up for the 2008 Beijing "Green Olympics".
These activities sponsored by the China Association for the Promotion of Environmental Culture of the State Environmental Protection Administration will be held once a year until the opening of the Olympic Games. Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration and president of China Association for the Promotion of Environmental Culture, 30 celebrities and hundreds of environmental volunteers from universities attended the launching ceremony of the first event.
At the launching ceremony, Pan Yue pointed out that "Green Olympics" is one of the three concepts of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and environmental protection has also become an important spiritual connotation of the international Olympic movement. The "Green Olympics China" campaign aims to further integrate the Olympic spirit and environmental protection spirit into China society.
Pan Yue said that environmental protection is a matter for the whole society, and it is the easiest to achieve social awareness and social success. For government departments, carrying out environmental protection work in communities, villages, schools and the whole society is a concrete manifestation of implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and building a harmonious socialist society. For college students, participating in the practice of sustainable development from an early age is the hope of cultivating positive civic spirit and realizing the ecological civilization of the Chinese nation; For literary celebrities, their active participation in environmental protection and public welfare can best reflect their sense of social responsibility and positive public image, and play a good demonstration effect on the whole society. Therefore, the cooperation among government departments, cultural celebrities and college students' young volunteers is a useful attempt to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to actively participate in environmental protection public welfare undertakings and build a harmonious socialist society.
Zhao Zhongxiang, Yu Junjian, Feng Gong, Guan Mucun,,,, Song Zu Ying, Yan Weiwen, Wang Fuli, Li Yang, Zhou Tao, Man Wenjun, Guo, Fu,, Feng Xiaoquan, Ceng Gege, Song Yingjie, Liu Quanli, Liu Quanhe and Jia.
In Shanghai, the activity of "Green China Welcomes the Olympics ―― The Promise of Spring" jointly organized by more than 20 universities including Fudan University was held at the main venue of Fudan University. The activity received a positive response from 200,000 college students in the sub-venue, and college students signed the proposal one after another, indicating that they would support the Green Olympics to participate in environmental protection actions with practical actions.
In Tianjin, nearly 65,438+10,000 college students' environmental protection volunteers from seven universities and some social environmental protection volunteers carried out environmental protection public welfare activities with the theme of "Green China welcomes the Olympic Games ―― Love Tianjin, Clean Haihe River and Green China". They collect rubbish on the banks of Haihe River and carry out environmental protection propaganda. Inspired by college students, local residents also joined the ranks of picking up garbage.
In Inner Mongolia, 60,000 college students and environmental protection volunteers from four universities and 1 1 primary and secondary schools participated in a series of environmental protection activities, which were sponsored by the Inner Mongolia Earth Ambassador and co-organized by the Inner Mongolia Environmental Protection Education Center. College students signed a joint agreement on environmental protection in colleges and universities, set up training courses for environmental protection volunteers, held competitions on environmental protection knowledge and battery making, and held a special party for environmental protection volunteers in three rural areas. In Nanjing, 60,000 students from 35 universities, primary and secondary schools and people from all walks of life participated in the large-scale environmental public welfare activity "Green China welcomes the Olympic Games ―― Green Jiangsu welcomes the 10th National Games" jointly organized by eight environmental NGOs. Environmental volunteers held environmental photo exhibitions in Nanhu Central Square and school, organized citizens to sign autographs to support environmental protection, and presented them with "environmental protection bags" and distributed environmental protection publicity materials. Four famous painters presented paintings and inscriptions for the event.
In Liaoning, nearly 1,000 elderly environmental protection volunteers participated in the "Green China Welcome to the Olympics-Love Mother River Olympic environmental protection volunteers Hunhe Tour" organized by the provincial and municipal environmental protection bureaus and the provincial environmental protection volunteers' federation. Elderly environmental protection volunteers formed four cycling teams to distribute environmental protection initiatives, materials and bags to pedestrians along the urban area. 30,000 college students participated in the environmental knowledge contest and DV contest organized by the Youth League Committee of Northeastern University, and learned about and participated in environmental protection by participating in the contest.
In An, 70,000 college students from 13 university participated in the theme activity of "Green China welcomes the Olympic Games ―― Surrounding An with Eight Waters" and visited the Weihe Ecological Exhibition held in An Revolutionary Park. Seeing the ecological status quo of Weihe River, students have said that we must start from now, starting from me, and let the grand scene of "Eight Rivers Around Chang 'an" reappear.
In Gansu, eight environmental protection organizations in colleges and universities jointly organized "Green China for the Olympic Games ―― Theme Activities of Protecting the Yellow River", and more than 20,000 college students' environmental protection volunteers held a publicity campaign to protect the Yellow River in Lanzhou Oriental Plaza.
In Hangzhou, 30,000 college students from 8 universities participated in the "Environmental Protection Publicity Campaign around the West Lake" organized by the Alliance of Environmental Protection Societies. Young volunteers run around the West Lake or ride bicycles, distributing pamphlets on environmental protection to tourists along the way.
In Heilongjiang, 30,000 college student volunteers from more than 10 universities went to the city square to preach environmental protection knowledge to the citizens. They distributed cleaning bags to the citizens and mobilized them to pick up garbage and clean the square.
In Sichuan, more than 80,000 college students' environmental protection volunteers from 20 universities in southwest China carried out publicity activities such as signing environmental protection commitment letters and popularizing environmental protection laws in Chengdu, Mianyang and Nanchong.
The person in charge of the China Association for the Promotion of Environmental Culture said that before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, different forms of environmental public welfare activities with the theme of "Green China welcomes the Olympic Games" will be carried out every year, and the scope of participation will be gradually expanded to form a social atmosphere in which everyone will strive to contribute to the green Olympic Games.