Our founders and directors, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, have been in China for the past few weeks, giving talks on Ecological Civilization and showing our film Journey of the Universe. Today, we thought we'd give you a photographic window into their experience and the events being held there.
Minister Pan Yue (in the first photo)–an early promoter of the concept of Ecological Civilization in China–chaired the conference in Urumqi where Mary Evelyn and John spoke about this topic. Urumqi is the capital and largest city of Xinjiang in Northwestern China. Mary Evelyn and John met Pan Yue in 2008 when he was Minister of the Environment. Pan Yue is now the Minister of Minority Peoples and one of the top leaders and advisonrs to President Xim.
Last week, Mary Evelyn and John did a showing of Journey of the Universe at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an evening event at the Yale Beijing Center. In addition, they also gave several talks at Peking University, including one at the student creative center, which was viewed by 27,000 people online and another talk for students where 250 young Chinese came to engage with these ideas. The enthusistic response of the students gives us all great hope. Here is a selection of images from the events held at Peking University.
Our thoughts and good wishes travel with Mary Evelyn and John as they continue to build bridges and help to spread and fertilize these ideas toward the creation of a truly flourishing Earth community.