Go green 🌳
Protect the environment with Beijing’s community of eco-friendly activists
Volunteer opportunities 🙏
Environmentalists of Beijing unite! Join the local volunteer community to make a difference in environmental sustainability and conservation — in the city, across China, and worldwide. Beijing offers a wide variety of fun and meaningful environmental volunteer opportunities to match your passions:
- Campaign for raised environmental awareness
- Pick up litter and trash around your local community
- Educate kids and community members on daily green living practices
- Submit your writing or research to a nature conservation magazine
- …and many more!
Every action taken to protect the environment puts a smile on mother nature’s face. So hike up your sleeves, get your hands dirty, help make make Beijing a greener, happier place!
Learn the philosophy — Educate yourself and others about the zero waste lifestyle
Join the community — Attend or volunteer at an upcoming local zero waste event
Choose zero waste products — Shop for items that support a reduced waste lifestyle
Pick up litter — Meet up at a litter-filled location to spend an afternoon CLeaning UP Beijing
Join the community — Share, discuss, and make friends with people in Beijing who care about the environment
Smart Air Beijing
Transparent social enterprise combating the impacts of air pollution
Updated: Nov 2019
Educate yourself — Learn about air pollution & purification in the knowledge base
Request a workshop — See for yourself what cost-effective clean air looks like
Breathe clean air — Choose the air purification system aligned with your values system
Roots & Shoots Beijing
A Jane Goodall project taking action for wildlife and the environment
Updated: Oct 2019
Get involved — Protect wildlife and the environment as a volunteer or intern
Translate reader comments — Facilitate cross-culture communication to solve environmental issues
Submit your writing — Write your own article and analysis about the state of environmental affairs
Friends of Nature
Promote environmental protection through education, advocacy, and experiences with nature
Updated: Sept 2019
Make a paperless donation — Save a tree, and then some — Donate to support China's green future
Report a hazard — Tell the experts about a major environmental issue
Volunteer for nature — Take action in Beijing's eco-friendly volunteer community
Towards a Compassionate Nation
Vegan outreach community promoting love for all animals
Updated: Sept 2019
Join a vegan event — Meet, support, and celebrate likeminded local vegan enthusiasts
Rehome a pet — Find a home for a dog or cat looking for love and cuddles
Green Drinks Beijing
Beijing’s organic, self-organizing network of environmentalists
Updated: Oct 2019
Have a casual drink — Meet like-minded green-collar professionals
Make a green impact — Convert your time and energy into a greener earth
Go vegan together — Attend a delicious, nutritious, and eco-friendly local vegan event
Live green in Beijing 🌿
While China stands in the spotlight of the world environmental debate, Beijing is home to people and organizations who are working to save the environment. In a developing country like China, environmental issues often take a back seat to economic development, but a new sprout of environmental awareness has emerged with China’s young generation — keen on building a clean and green future.
Give mother nature the love she deserves!
To find a rock solid foundation for China’s nature conservation movement, look no further than the grassroots projects underway in Beijing today.
Preserving the environment is super-important for our quality of life in general — and even more importantly, the survival of life on earth. Environmental volunteering is your chance to protect nature and wildlife — and in China, there’s no better, more accessible place to volunteer than Beijing.
Protect the environment, starting in Beijing.
If you love the great outdoors and believe in a more sustainable future, then green volunteering is a great fit for you! There are layers and layers of good that come from working with environmentally focused initiatives to promote nature. You’ll get some green experience, and maybe even dive into a green career!
Make a green future for China and the world!
Go green in Beijing to make a positive impact on the environment! Explore the natural world and help shape China’s next generation of environmental supporters.















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