One of the reasons why I have hope that things can (and will change) is that as citizens face the issues of environmental and lifestyle degradation, they can be motivated to develop a solution that would not have otherwise been developed.

In the words of Chris Horton at Go Kunming:

Last Friday in Beijing, Yunnan provincial party secretary Bai Enpei (白恩培) told reporters that if the province’s environment is destroyed “Yunnan will have absolutely nothing”.

One of the major environmental issues in Yunnan is the widespread use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, whose runoff is one of the main contributors to the severe pollution of Dianchi Lake in recent decades.

With this in mind, GoKunming, Salvador’s Coffee House and The Oasis Gift Shop (in between the eastern end of Wenhua Xiang and the middle of Wenlin Jie) have come together to create GreenKunming, a new organic food distribution system.