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环保几年国内外的热门话题，热别是奥运以来，北京加快实施了一系列绿色行动。
Environmental topics have certainly been in the spotlight this year both internationally and in China. Particularly since the Olympics, Beijing has taken an accelerated focus on the environment with green efforts including recycling projects, air quality emissions reductions and water quality control.
One Beijing non profit group is using creative artistic expression as a platform to promote awareness and create unique green events that bring the community together in a good cause.
"Greening the Beige" was founded by Carissa Welton, an American from Anne Arbor Michigan with a zeal for art and a newly boosted spirit of community participation after a plastic bag collection for a music festival in 2007.
Proving their later motto, "One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Art Project," they were able to collect 2000 bags, melt them down into decorative plastic leaves and take them to the "Burning Man Festival" in Nevada to "refoliate" trees made from recycled material.
Since Greening the Beige's official formation, they have planned music events and art exhibits, green themed movie festivals and other interesting projects.
One eccentric way to unite people has been to throw a "trashion Show." The first one was in 2007; using the plastic bags collected for the Burning Man Festival, a local Chinese designer created a dress that was melted out of 250 bags from Beijing's streets.
This month, literally 'embodying' the slogan, "Eco=chic, Gorgeous-n-Green," designers are competing by wearing everything from simple neckties made out of old flyers to full dresses constructed of bubble wrap.
Futhermore, Carissa tries to involve local students.
