win opetition of environent protetion for beijin
- by luy an
althouh the 200 olypis are still three years away, another speial opetition has already started in beijin. this tie, the opetitors are not the athletes fro all over the world, but the people livin in beijin. the speial opetition is not held in a stadiu, but in every street and every orner of beijin. i suppose soe of you ay have already uessed what the speial opetition is. yes, it is the opetition of protetin our environent and reatin a reen beijin for the 200 olypi aes.
soeone ay ask who is our rival in this opetition? the odern los aneles, the harin sydney, or the histori athens? no, none of the. the real rival is ourselves. it is our bad habits of neletin to protet environent in our daily life.
several years ao, i was very luky to have an opportunity to live in the united states for about two years. i not only enjoyed the beautiful environent there, but also appreiated the aerian people's ative way of protetin their environent. now, whenever the environent protetion is entioned, a beautiful view of alifornia will arise in y ind: white louds flyin aross the blue sky, reen rassplot sprinkled with olorful flowers and sall anials playin happily aon the trees.
i reeber that at the beinnin of y oin to aeria, i often went to y father's workin plae, the united states eoloial survey, to have fun. eah tie i found a lot of people ridin biyles to their offies. aon the ylists, an old an with white hair attrated y attention. uriously, i asked y father," why does the old an ride his bike to work every day? doesn't he have enouh oney to buy a ar?" father lauhed, "no, not beause of oney. atually, he is one of the reatest sientists in the world. he an afford to buy a otorade if he likes. he is just an environentalist and usually doesn't drive unless oin shoppin, or in bad weather. in aeria, there are a lot of environentalists, who atively protet their environent. for exaple, in palo alto ity we are livin now, there is even a biyle-to-work day on ay 19th every year to enourae people to derease air pollution aused by ars".
later, i also learnt another interestin fat of environent protetion there. in soe states of aeria, in order to derease air pollution, save enery and redue traffi jas, state overnents enourae people to take buses to work or to share a ar aon several people. they even set speial "diaond lanes" in soe ain streets, whih are only for the vehiles with 2 or ore people.
the positive ations of aerian people and the effetive easures the aerian overnent takes in environent protetion fully won y respets and deeply affeted y onsiousness in environent protetion.
when i was bak in hina, people often asked e: " what do you think of aeria?" i always bolt out:" wonderful, espeially the beautiful environent." frankly speakin, after several years, the faes of y aerian teahers and friends have radually faded away fro y ind, but the blue sky, reen rass and lovely anials in alifornia often arise in y ind, and beae y drea of visitin there aain.
the 200 olypis provide us with the opportunity to publiie and pratise environent protetion in beijin. is it possible for beijin to is it possible for beijin to beoe as beautiful as alifornia? the answer is "yes", but the drea needs every beijin itien's full support and ative oves to aoplish.
fro now on, if every student who is driven to shool an take bus or ride biyle to shool one a week, if every ar owner oes to work in a ar pool one a week, we an ake a differene. if everyone an atively protet the environent in our daily life, the blue sky, reen rass and lovely anials in alifornia will appear in beijin.
tiny streas an obine into a vast oean, sall trees an toether be an iense forest. beijin is often desribed as a beautiful and aed piture. if every beijin itien adds a trait of reen on the piture, the whole beijin will beoe an oean of reen. let us unite toether to win the opetition of environent protetion in beijin, and present the world a bi old edal. that is "reen beijin, reat olypis "
打好环保比赛、创建绿色北京
尽管200北京奥运会离我们还有3年之遥，但有一项规模宏大的特殊比赛已经拉开了序幕。这场比赛的参加者并非来自世界各国的体育选手，而是身处北京的每一位公民，比赛的场所就是我们身边的街区小巷。我想大家已经想到了我所说的这项特殊比赛，这就是"创建绿色北京、保护美好环境"。那么在这场环保大赛中，我们究竟要与谁一比高低？是繁华现代的洛杉矶、风光迷人的悉尼、还是古老神奇的雅典？都不是！比赛的对手就是我们自己，就是我们自身淡漠的环保意识。
几年前有幸在美国加州度过的一段时光，既让我享受了那里宜人的环境，更让我领略了当地人民高度的环保意识。每当说到城市环保，我的眼前总会浮现出加州那蔚蓝的天空、明媚的阳光、碧绿的草地以及嬉戏在树枝间的松鼠、彩蝶和百灵鸟。
记得刚到美国时，常去爸爸工作的美国地质调查局玩耍，每次均能看到许多人骑自行车上下班，而其中一位满头白发的骑车老人，引起了我的好奇。我问爸爸，"那个爷爷为什么总骑车上班，是不是没钱买车？"爸爸笑道："没钱买车？嘿，说出来吓死你，他可是世界上顶级的大科学家。要论钱，他可以买一个车队呢。" "那他咋不买车呢？骑车多累呀！" "他有车，但平时除非下雨或购物，一般不去开。在美国有许多人都是环保主义者，为了节约能源和减少汽车尾气对大气的污染，他们用实际行动倡导人们尽量少开车。而我们所居住的这座美国城市，还特别将每年的月19日定成了'骑车上班日'，以支持和宣传这种有效的环保行为。"
后来，我还在经常的搭车出行中获知了他们的另一件环保趣事：在美国的许多州，政府为了鼓励大家多坐公交车或几人合用一辆车，以节省能源和缓解交通压力，在城市内一些主干道路上开辟有专门的'钻石车道'，只有乘坐了二人或二人以上的车辆才从此通过。美国人民这种自觉的环保意识和政府有效的环保措施使我从内心对他们充满了敬佩。并深刻地影响了我的环保理念。
回国后，常常有人问我："美国好吗？"我总会脱口而出："确实好！最好的是环境。"说句真心话，回国
三、四年，美国那边同学和老师的面孔已经逐渐模糊，但加州那宜人的自然环境，却每每清晰地浮现在我的眼前，成为我最深的记忆和期盼故地重游的缘由，也成了我心目中北京环境的蓝图。200奥运会为我们倡导和实施北京的环保提供了契机，北京能否有朝一日也拥有象加州那样美丽的环境？答案是肯定的。但需要我们以真正的环保之心和切实的环保行动去一步一步地实现。
从现在开始，如果每一位有车的朋友一星期可以少开
一、两次车，每个让家长用车接送的同学一周能主动让家长少接送一两趟而改乘公车或骑自行车，我们就会有拥有更多的蓝天……。只要我们每一位北京市民都能够自觉的从身边的环保小事做起，加州的蓝天、白云和绿草地就会在北京安家，美国的松鼠、彩蝶和百灵鸟就会来北京落户。
涓涓细流可以汇成滔滔江海，片片绿叶能够造就莽莽森林。只要我们每一位北京市民都拿起手中的环保之笔，在我们所处的街头巷尾，为北京这幅美丽而古老的画卷添上自己的一抹绿色，就能使北京掩映在绿色的海洋中。让我们一起行动起来，用我们集体的力量来打赢这场环保之赛，向全世界展现一块最大的金牌，这就是"绿色北京、精彩奥运"。