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Design for Social Innovation SVA NYC

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My name is Linjie. I’m from Beijing, China. In my family, I have two older sisters. That is very rare.

In my country of over one point three five billion people, there is a population imbalance. It’s a gender imbalance between men and women. There are twenty percent more men than women.

Why?

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Thesis One - Pager

Linjie Deng

1.What is the issue/problem you will be focusing on and why is it a good topic for thesis? (Reference your discussions with experts and audience members) (500-750 characters)

Social problem: 

An economics professor in China has suggested that Chinese men share their wives with men who can’t find their own.

This idea comes from Xie Zuoshi, a professor at the School of Economics and International Trade at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. Tens of thousands criticized his idea in social media. They say Mr. Xie’s proposal is immoral and an insult to women.

A teacher in Beijing, Yu Baoyu, says the professor is treating woman as if they are a product that a husband can share or rent. This teacher adds, “I am surprised he has the audacity,” or nerve, to say such things in public. The United Nations has determined that imbalances in the sex ratio of a population at birth should usually fall between 2-5%; ratios outside this range are considered abnormal. According to the United Nations Population Fund report, China’s population in 2005 had reached 119 male births for every 100 female, and even exceeded 150:100 in a few provinces and rural areas. This has been the situation for more than 30 years, and now China is in a period where social problems brought on by gender imbalance are common, which will exert a profound long-term influence on China’s population and social development. 

Throughout history China has structured society around patriarchal families, giving men an advantageous position in inheritance of property, living arrangements, production of offspring and family rights. Women were reduced to a low position in the family and society; after marriage, women mainly lived under the authority of their husbands, and the ideas that men are superior to women, and that sons are the surest means of providing for one's old age, were allowed to flourish. In addition, China’s traditional culture (which is based on Confucianism) lays strong emphasis on the importance of having sons. These practices and views are the heart of the preference for sons in Chinese families. 

In the last twenty years, China’s fertility rate has been rapidly declining and the total fertility rate is lower than the replacement level. In populations that strongly favour sons, a decrease in the fertility rate is often accompanied by an increase in the imbalance between the birth rates of the two sexes.

On the whole, China is still an underdeveloped society in the process of transformation, in which the social security system is far from comprehensive in cities and nearly non-existent in rural areas. There is a relatively large disparity in education, employment and participation in politics between women and men in China. Moreover, the formulation and implementation of several policies related to economic and social development were carried out without regard to gender equality, causing the position of women in society, economy and politics to remain low. These factors create concrete incentives for Chinese families to favour sons.

China has a population imbalance between men and women. This imbalance, has left about 30 million adult men without wives. So, how to find their own wife?

Why is it a good topic for thesis? In the course syllabus, as we mentioned : “In the three Thesis classes over three semesters, students will identify and research a social innovation issue, develop insights and a theory of change around that issue, engage the community in the iterative development of an intervention to effect that change and finally build & share a component of that intervention.”

In my thesis, because of the natural law of population reproduction, consequences of imbalances in the sex ratio at birth have an accumulative effect and are transmitted in a way that spans multiple generations; such consequences will not show immediately but gradually appear once the generation concerned has grown up. Even assuming that the sex ratio at birth returns to normal, the consequences of the previous imbalance will last for a long period of time rather than disappearing right away. 

In averting 400 million births since 1980, as the Chinese government claims the policy has, it violated numerous human rights. Tens of millions of baby girls have been aborted or abandoned, leaving China with one of the most uneven sex ratios in the world. Women — particularly the poor, who cannot afford the steep fines needed to have second children — have been forcibly subjected to abortions, sterilization or I.U.D. Insertions.

For this social issue, I can use some skills and tools I have learned to talk about several directions. For example: feminism, the influence of the two-child policy, Chinese traditional culture, marrige... And I can engage the community in the iterative development of an intervention to effect that change and finally build & share a component of that intervention. So I think this is a good topic for thesis.

2.What communities will you be looking to engage? (250-500 characters)

Country:China.

Communities:

Yichang, Hubei Province,

Dengfeng, Henan Province,

Shanghai. Chinese city Chinese village.

Yichang, Hubei Province: Hubei Province, where Yichang is located, is often one of the provinces with the most imbalanced sex ratio at birth in China. However, Yichang is one of only two or three prefecture-level cities in the province with normal sex ratio at birth, and has moreover maintained a relatively stable and normal sex ratio at birth for the past 20 years.

Dengfeng, Henan Province: Dengfeng is under the administration of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, where imbalance of sex ratio at birth is a long-standing problem. 99% of village administrative units distribute resources to villagers under the principle that women marry into the man’s family: men are permanent villagers and enjoy various perks (such as homestead rights, proprietary fields, land compensation, collective welfare etc.); women are regarded as “temporary villagers” and subject to many restrictions.

SHANGHAI — News that the Chinese government would relax the one-child policy — one of its most sweeping, intrusive and defining — has been widely welcome.

Chinese city: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Dalian. Chinese village: Shanxi, Dengzhuang, Linfen, Anhui, Hefei.

3.What are some research approaches or concept forms you are interested in experimenting with during the thesis process? (250-500 characters)

I had a few requests to summarize the entire experience, so here goes.

And I have my tool kit and 9 steps model of frame creation in research.

Tool kits:

1.Before proposing a solution, make sure you gather insights from people. The first step is talk about the problem with people, not design.

2.Before you start the creative process, question if the identified problem is a symptom or an upstream problem. Question, why, why, why.

3.Don’t change your topic because you can’t find a solution.

4.Make sure you prototype over and over and over.

5.When suck, talk to others. Ask other people’s point of view or advice.

6.Don’t fall in love with the solution, fall in love with the problem.

7.Detail 4 research activities you did this semester and what key insights you learned from them.

9 steps model of frame creation in research

1.Acheology

Analyzing the history of the problem owner and of the initial problem formulation.

2.Paradox

Analyzing the probelm situation: what makes this hard?

3.Context

Analyzing the inner circle of stakeholders

4.Field

Exploring the borader field

5.Themes

Investigating the thems in the broader field

6.Frames

Identifying patterns in the thems to create frames

7.Futures

Exploring the possible outcomnes and value propostions

8.Transformation

Investigate the change in practices required for implementation

9.Integration

Draw lessons from the new approah and identify opportunities.

For my thesis, in the field, The broader field of possible stakeholders also includes children, educational establishments (schools, universities), teachers, parents, family, culutre, gender, marrige, money, economic, society, hospitals & care facilities, etc…

4.Detail 4 research activities you did this semester and what key insights you learned from them.

Research activities: Determine the topic. Investigation questionnaires were designed and the various causes of 10 women of artificial abortion were analyzed to obtain related materials. Interview, insight.

Last month, , I interviewed a Chinese young man who have girlfriend.

Linjie: “ what do you think about the 40 million singman can not find their own wife?”

The young man: “ they are not good enough. They are loser.”

Linjie: “ Ok, according to your logic and you situation, now you’ve already have a girlfriend. You “good enough”. So can you share some idea or way to help the 40 million singman find their own wife?”

The young man: “ No!”

Linjie: “.....why?”

The young man: “ If I tell them how to find wife or girlfriend, what will happen to me? I can’t find girlfriend or wife.”

My god!!!!  This is Social Darwinism!!!! 

And some old generation told me: “ Linjie, you are too young. You can not understand us. As parents, according to our logic: with fewer available women, parents have a much stronger incentive to save to make their sons attractive marriage prospects, as do the sons as they mature and enter the marriage market.

The marriage market is becoming very competitive with so few girls. The resulting pressure might incentivize men and parents with sons to increase savings in order to have a competitive edge in the marriage market.

Marriage competition may also be partly behind China's surge in home prices. since the groom's side is traditionally expected to consecrate the union with a house or apartment.

5.Detail 4 research activities you will be engaging in over the summer. What questions will you be looking to answer or get more information on?

Depth research：

Contrastive analysis： For example： the bachelors living in cities / the bachelor living in villages --- Attitude --- Causes --- Values --- What's your criterion to choose a wife? --- why you make this criterion? --- solution --- ...... Sons are seen as more valuable, especially in the countryside, because they have been traditionally responsible for caring for their parents in old age. There is another part of the marriage from the old to the emptiness is, after all, there is a saying called "bring up their children to old age."

But can this really be true? Could it really be that simple?

So many years have passed since the liberation, while many feudal thoughts still root in many people's minds, especially in the choice of the sex of birth. A looser one-child policy may be progress. But it might also allow traditional patriarchal values to rear up again, and keep some women down. 

So many problem waiting for me to slove. Let me find the answer in this summer vacation.

School of Visual  Arts New York City Design for Social Innovation Linjie Deng

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SOCIAL INNOVATION

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How does your thesis topic/nugget qualify as social innovation?

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How does college students studying at New York University achieve their dreams?

Why Do I Care?

--- I think university is a starting point for many young people to take off and realize their dream.

--- The young are able to create their own future. At the same time, youth(college studnets) is the future of a country, the hope of a nation.

--- Our dreams create our future.

If individuals and organizations want to allow these students the best opportunity to be positive influences, and there by improve the society or country, then it is very important that we understand how and why the collgeg students achieve their dreams as a positive influence in their society or country.

Who Can Benefit?

College students Teachers Career/guidance counselors University administrators Community outreach programs Mentorship programs Active professionals with an interest in giving back to the community Parents/guardians Close friends of college students

Interview Question

➢INTRODUCTION ●What is your name? ●How old are you? ●What is your major? ●What grade are you in?

➢RESEARCH

●How do you achieve your dream?

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How do high school students living in Brownsville public housing envision their career prospects?

Why Do I Care?

High school students will soon be faced with the challenges of adult life.

As adults they will be the primary influences on their community and family.

Improving their ability to prepare for productive careers is a way to fundamentally improve the quality of a community.

If individuals and organizations want to allow these students the best opportunity to be positive influences, and thereby improve the community, then it is very important that we understand how and why the students work towards envisioning themselves as a positive influence in their community.

Who Can Benefit?

High school students

Teachers

Career/guidance counselors

School administrators

Community outreach programs

Mentorship programs

Active professionals with an interest in giving back to the community

Parents/guardians

Close friends of high school students

Interview Question 

➢INTRODUCTION ●What is your name? ●How old are you? ●What school do you go to? ●What grade are you in?

➢GOALS ●How do you define Goals and/or Dreams? ●Why do goals matter? ●Do you have a dream career? ○What is it and why? ●What are some things in life that are important to you? ○Why? ●What are your strengths? ●What are your weaknesses? ●What abilities do you want to develop? ○How are they related to your plans for the future? ●Have you spoken with anyone recently about your goals? ○If so, what did you talk about? ●How do you define success? ●Is there anything stopping you from doing what you want to do? ○If so, what is it? How does it affect you? ●What is the number one motivation for achieving your career goal? ○Why this motivation? ●How far do you think you are from your goals? ○Time, effort, skill, etc? ●What are your plans immediately after high school? ○Why do you have those plans? ●Do you have any long term and/or short term goals? ○Why did you choose those specific goals? ●What actions have you taken towards your plans? ○Why those specific actions?

➢HOBBIES ●What are your hobbies? ○Why do they interest you? ○Do you plan on making a career out of them? ●Why? ●Does your family support your hobbies? ○How do they do it? ●Do you do anything else in your spare time? ○What? ○Why? ●Are you involved in any extracurricular activities? If so, what are they? ●How often do you attend extracurricular activities? ○Do you like them? ●Are you involved in extracurricular activities that are educational?

➢ROLE MODELS ●Do you have a role model and/or someone who inspires you? ○How do they inspire you? ○What qualities do you admire? ●How did you get to know your role model? ●How does your role model impact you? ●What do your parents/guardians do for a living? ○Tell us more about their job? ○Do they enjoy their work? ○How do you feel about their job? ●Has anything specific influenced you in regard to career goals? ○A person, event, etc?

➢SOCIAL MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT ●Do you use social media when it comes to planning for the future? ○In what way? ○Why?

➢TALK TO PROFESSIONALS/EDUCATORS/FAMILY/FRIENDS ●Where/who has your knowledge of career planning come from? ●Do you know anyone in the career you are interested in? ○Have you spoken to them?

➢SCHOOL PROGRAMS & COLLEGE FAIRS ●Does your school organize a career fair? ○If so, have you attended? ○How was it? ○Who did you talk to? ○Did it give you any insights on what you want to do when you graduate? ●Are you involved in any school clubs? ○If so, what? ●What’s your favorite subject? Why? Do you see yourself doing it as a job in the future? ●Do you have a favorite teacher? ○Why? ●How do you consider yourself as a student? ○Why do you feel this way? ●What are your challenges in school? ○Why are they challenging for you? ○Are you trying to solve it and how? ●What do you think the schools should be doing to teach students about career planning?

➢RESEARCH ●How do you get information about colleges/work?

➢FINANCE

●How much money do you want to make? ●For those students going to college… Have you thought about how you will plan your finances for school? ○More detail?

➢OTHER ●How do you solve problems when they come to career planning? ●Do you have any work experience? ○Has this experience helped you shape your career decisions? ●For those students who want to get a “job” rather than a career or college, what “work” do you want to do specifically? ○Why this job? ○What will you do with the money?

He look like a middle school students, but he is a high school studnet.

Top Stories

In two interviews, when I asked the participants about their parents’ jobs, they were hesitating, and said they didn’t know what their parents do. But when I asked them if they wanted to do the same job as their parents, their answer was: NO!

Surprise

-Before the interview, I expected the teens not to have career prospects related to a college education, but in most than half of the interviews, the high school students mentioned studying in college as a plan for after high school.  

-In a list of values that include: family, career, friends, health and money, most students chose “family” as a first priority and “friends” as the last. I thought that in an economically disadvantaged community perhaps money would be considered as a higher priority, but it was mostly chosen as a fourth option.

-Most of the students know what they are good at and they are thinking about using their skills to pursue a career.

Insight:

1. The best way to approach them was to ask if they were high school students.

2. It was sensitive to ask them if they live in public housing and we asked them the name of the building in which they live so that we know if they were in public housing or not.

3. In most of the cases, the children that live in public housing do not want to do the same job as their parents do and they don’t see themselves leaving in public housing in 5 years from now.

4.  A lot of them have the vision to live out of state or even in a different country.

5. The kids who have role model have two kinds of models: famous soccer or sports players and others were family members that are economically successful.

6. Many of them were uncomfortable when we asked what jobs did their parents do.

7. A lot of kids don’t make friends in the same building that they live in and it seems like it is not very important what their friends do as a career for their career goals.

8. The teens who did not have role models tended to have lower expectations for their future, for example one girl said that she expects to live in the same public housing 5 years from now.

New questionsAsk them:

Does you high school give you enough information for you to choose a wide variety of careers?

Do you have access to information about colleges and financial aid?

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Interviews

I intend on reaching out to an educator, architect and craftsman. that  seeks to integrate quality design, service and education to make places worthy of the dignity of the human person.  http://www.amdgdesign.org/AMDGdesign/Terrence_Curry.html 

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Harlem First

How would you define health? How is your definition similar or different to how the participants described health?

I would define health in two parts: 

1.Physical health The air was fresh, the water was clean, the sky was blue, Safe food.

2.Mental health Mental health means a kind of harmonious status between the individual mentality and the social reality.

I’d suppose my definition is just way more specific meaning than what the participants described.

What insight from the research you did for this project did you find to be the most surprising? Reflect on a comment from a panel participant and how it relates to that insight.

What I found most surprising (in a good way) is the fact that the topics that my team is focused on something more than just Medical problems. Our topic is : The Sounds of Harlem. When we first went to Harlem we heard a lot noise, from construction, people cursing, trains, cars, ambulances, among other things. We assumed that all this noise could affect health somehow and wanted to explore this further. So throughout our research we have found that noise pollution has a direct effect on health. “Exposure for more than 8 hours a day to sound in excess of 85 decibels is potentially hazardous to one’s health. The hazardous effects of noise depend on its intensity (loudness in decibels), duration, and frequency (high or low).”

We know that Harlem has heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and mental health issues according to the Harlem report, “in addition, the mental illness hospitalization rate has increased by 30% during the past decade. In 2003-2004, the community’s average annual rate of mental illness hospitalizations (2,283/100,000) was higher than both the Manhattan rate (1,011/100,000) and the rate in New York City overall (813/100,000).” We’ve found that these health issues correlate with the health problems affected by noise pollution. Below are the most common sources of noise pollution. Transportation vehicles (the worst offenders): aircraft railroad stock trucks buses automobiles motorcycles Construction equipment: jackhammers bulldozers

Noise pollution affects physical, mental and emotional health. Some of the common health effects include:  

hearing loss and high-frequency hearing loss in newborns high blood pressure heartburn possibly heart disease lack of sleep indigestion ulcers neurological mental illness anger and frustration and irritability lower resistance to disease and infection circulatory problems ulcers respiratory problems  including asthma colitis headaches gastrointestinal disorders cardiovascular constriction, labored breathing, changes in brain chemistry stomach contractions risk of damage to the fetus

Noise can lead to social handicap, reduced productivity, decreased performance in learning, absenteeism in the workplace and school, increased drug use and accidents. Excessive noise impairs children’s reading comprehension, which leads to a delay in reading skills development, increased stress and diminished motivation.

Think about a community you’ve been a part of. How would you diagnosis the health of that community? How is it similar or different to Harlem?

A community I’ve grown up in, an Deng Zhuang small village, in Shanxi China, is way different but, in a way, similar to Harlem. As you know, China is a socialist country, and a developing country as well. The United States is the developed countries, a relatively complete all aspects of development, civic education, a relatively high level, with high quality. And Harlem is located at NYC, USA. The two have not always been classed together.

My hometown’s problems are worse than Harlem. Foe me, Harlem is a lovely community. So many people also engaged in human trafficking and organized prostitution. Human trafficking differs from people smuggling. China would still have a vast underdeveloped countryside, and it will begin to face demographic problems from the delayed effects of the one child per couple policy it enforced in the 20th century.

And in rural and remote areas, there is great distance between a person in psychological trouble and a resource that could intervene: a caregiver. 

Before that, although I cared about rural problems, I never thought about living in a village. This is why a kind of sorrow?

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Going To The Moon

If I could fly to the moon never return to earth.  I would take World Book Webster's Dictionary, The moon's survival guide, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the film Farewell My Concubin, Mr. Bean.

1.Webster's Dictionary

I chose the Webster's Dictionary because I'm afraid of lose my speaking ability too quickly. Dictionary is supposed to be a watchdog of language. If I can not read, the four other bookd is a worthless rag. The dictionary can help maintain cognitive performance. The main thing a bring dictionary does for me is gives me a sense of peace, knowing that I've thought everything through consciously, and everything is covered.

2.The Moon's Survival Guide

There is no air and water on the moon. That's why no living things can live there. What should I do? I am the newcomer and I don't know how they I through life. I need some guidance teach me to live on the Moon.

3.One Hundred Years of Solitude

There's nobody here but me. I have no friends here. I feel rather lonely. I would rather read this book than face all the ages of this world alone. One Hundred Years of Solitude can help me how to go well along with my solitude.

4.Farewell My Concubin

"Farewell My Concubine", Chen's master work, is of high artistic merit, illustrates the transformation of China's society and Chinese people's fate during half a century. I like it very much, I like the music, I like the acrobatics, I like the Peking faces.

5.Mr. Bean.

Bean rarely speaks, and the largely physical humour of the series is derived from his interactions with other people and his unusual solutions to situations. One reason is that there's very little dialogue in the stories and thus no language barrier. If I meet an alien from outer space, we can watch the movie together on the moon. Smile is a common language between human and ET. I just hope all people around are happy.

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5 “Interventions” I Wish I had Brought into the World

1. The documentary “Under the Dome”.

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky. It‘s the most serious kind of air pollution.

Where is the Tiananmen Square???

 Haze shrouded Beijing 

It’s a relative breath of fresh air for smog-weary Beijingers.

Chai Jing (Chinese: 柴静; pinyin: Chái Jìng; born on January 1, 1976) is a Chinese journalist, host, author and environmental activist.

In 2014, Chai undertook an independent investigation into China's environmental problems, which culminated in a self-financed documentary called Under the Dome (Chinese: 穹顶之下; pinyin: qióng dǐng zhī xià). By March 3, 2015, the film had garnered over 150 million views in China, sparking widespread discussion about pollution and environmental policy in China. The film was blocked on Chinese websites by the authorities on March 7, 2015.

She voiced those concerns in a straightforward manner, from the perspective of an average citizen. The video had the polished format of a PowerPoint presentation or TED Talk, with Ms. Chai presenting sobering scientific facts to an audience from a stage while dressed simply in a white blouse and jeans. Ms. Chai, thirty-nine years old , hooked viewers, too, by talking candidly about her fears of the threats posed by air pollution to her infant daughter’s health — acommon concern among Chinese parents.

The startling phenomenon of the video, the national debate it set off and the official attempts to quash it reflect the deep political sensitivities in the struggle within the Chinese bureaucracy to reverse China’s environmental degradation, among the worst in the world. The drama over the video has ignited speculation over which political groups were its supporters and which sought to kill it, and whether party leaders will tolerate the civic conversation and grass-roots activism that in other countries have been necessary to curbing rampant pollution.

2.Transform the Basement

BEIJING — Western tourists who visit Beijing often remark on its lack of slums. Although it is home to seven million migrant workers.

Beijing does have slums, however — only they are mostly hidden from view and, despite bleak living conditions, many of their residents are surprisingly hopeful.

Some communities of slum dwellers are called “rat tribes” because they live in damp, dark rooms located in one-time air-raid shelters and basements.

Both types of slums are tolerated by the state. The government turns a blind eye because it needs a large migrant workforce to provide the cheap manpower behind China’s astonishing urbanization. Whenever the slums become an eyesore it simply tears them down and sells the land for development, forcing migrants to look further afield for housing.

Migrants without a Beijing hukou, or official household registration, have limited access to social benefits like health care and education. This leads many of the poorer ones to leave their children behind in their hometowns.

Zhou Zishu is one of the chinese art designer and graduated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design London. He think the issue is the current predicament of basement. Actually is the lack of to bring all stakeholders together to apply the solutions that work.

He transformed the dark and dirty basement into a beautiful home. It’s a sustainable and reproducible development mode of modern basement.

This is new basement after refrom.

The basement has three functions---- Living room, office and activity room. Some of activity room offer upper-floor residents for free. Some of room rented out to a young people. The office is business section. The living room and activity is public service section. Such solution does not increase the costs of living.

Here, most migrants can find work. Serious crime is rare. Outsiders club together, creating a palpable sense of community. And so even slum dwellers seem upbeat — at least as long as living conditions keep improving, as they have in China over the last three decades.

I think that without a reform of the hukou system and the development of affordable mass housing, by 2030 almost half of the one billion Chinese who live in cities will belong to a “giant underclass.” Were that to happen China’s slums might go from being places of aspiration to cauldrons of discontent.

3.Tommy Kleyn, One man cleaned up an entire filthy riverbank

It only takes one person to change the world, and while Tommy Kleyn might not have been able to clean up every dirty waterway, he has set a truly inspirational example.

Tommy, from the Netherlands, was fed up of biking past the polluted waterfront on his way to work every day.

He realised the mass of discarded bottles and bags bummed him out for about 30 minutes each day, so instead of whining about it on Twitter, Tommy decided to take action.

Vowing to spend 30 minutes each day picking up the rubbish, Tommy managed to fill one dustbin bag per outing.

It was slow work, but according to Tommy: ‘It was very simple: take the plastic, but in the bag, put the bags next to the nearby trash bin. And also: it was pretty satisfying.’ Tommy kept people updated about his work on his Facebook page, and friends quickly jumped in to him out on his quest.

Sifting through the mass of rubbish on the water front gave Tommy time to contemplate human’s wasteful nature.

He said: ‘The trash bags I used came in A PLASTIC SLEEVE. See what I mean? It makes no sense to manufacture a product that has fulfilled it’s purpose as soon as it reaches the consumer from a material that lasts up to 400 years.

Despite a sore back (Tommy is 6’9″), the results soon started to shine through, and Tommy even found some interesting stuff during his mission.

However after 22 bags of rubbish (and nearly as many blisters on his hands) Tommy was able to look over the difference he had made.

And as a final reward, a Eurasian Coot started nesting on the bank he cleaned shortly after he finished.

What a hero.

More people from all parts of the world  have realized the situation and try their best to deal with the problem.

4. A homeless bazaar: Cape Town's 'Street Store', where everything's for free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynOeTEyME7w&index=37&list=PLm6V9TCAB3fX8W5j1F1nCii-MsjA5wucB

Street store is the world’s first rent-free, premises-free, free pop-up clothing store. founded in January 2014, the Street Store was created by Max.

The best giving is respect.-----Max Pazak

Last week, a chinese young people made a street store in Changsha Hunan, china. The slogan is “if you need, please take away.” Less than 24 hours old, the street store were prevented by the government. Urban supervisors said “it's too ugly to see that colthes is full of the street. Moreover, it also affects the appearance of the city.”

I'm shamed to be chinese. However, We have become hardened to scandals and shocks.

5.Hitting China With Humor ---Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

When the Sichuan earthquake struck southwest China in May 2008, hundreds of buildings crumbled — a large number of them schools. when schools collapsed and the government clamped down on parents protesting shoddy construction. Ai backed the parents and began to demand more openness from the government.

Thousands of schoolchildren, many whose names are still unknown, were killed in the disaster. “After the earthquake, the government didn’t release the names of the victims, so [Ai Weiwei] used the Internet to gather those names,

In the “Citizen’s Investigation,” Ai Weiwei initiated a survey of 150 schools in 74 towns to recover the names, birth dates, and the names of the schools of the children who were killed. The project was not looked kindly upon by the national government. “The investigation uncovered the subsequently widely reported fact that the defective ‘tofu construction’ of school buildings played a principal role in the disproportionately high mortality rate of schoolchildren, a fact that was strenuously covered up by government authorities.

One of China’s biggest problems is autocratic government. So, I don’t need sexy, because the “gunverment” funck me every day.

I hope the democracy to reach China by 2020.