校新闻网讯 4月13日，中国日报报道了我校第13届社团文化节上，绿色协会倡导环境保护活动。并采访绿色协会相关负责人员，报道了他们在环境保护方面所做的宣传和努力。原文如下(文章略有删节）：

BEIJING: They were dressed in green uniforms. Their poster took green as its background color. The distinctive green "corner" at the 13th Community Cultural Festival at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), opened on April 8, was really eye-catching.

The Green Association of UIBE, which was founded in 1998 and now has about 150 student members, has helped the university become a positive example of energy saving and carbon footprint reduction.

"The group has played an important role in promoting the green concept on the campus. Only by doing this can we consolidate the fame we've earned in environment protection," Chen Jianxiang, a vice-president at UIBE, said at the opening ceremony of the annual campus festival.

The finely painted "Green Map", which locates all the environmental protection facilities across the campus, was just one indication.

Ma Lan, president of the Green Association, seemed very proud of the green efforts they had made.

"We have a 'waste paper for gifts' program, which is aimed at encouraging students to recycle scrap paper. We do it every month," she said. "They send waste paper to the designated points. We give them small gifts as a reward. The move has been a tradition for years and is much welcomed by the students."

The collected used paper is in turn delivered to a paper recycling company.

The move has developed into a joint action of several universities in the capital, including Peking University and College of Foreign Affairs, according to Ma.

Ma's association, together with Peking University's counterpart, conducted a poll of electricity consumption in a residential neighborhood last year and found the result was unsatisfactory.

"We just want to remind people to adopt an energy-saving lifestyle, making Earth Hour not only a gesture but a daily activity that could benefit the environment we live in a practical way," she said.

Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign aimed at promoting energy saving and emission reduction, saw lights in about 4,000 cities around the world go out on March 27 this year.