Li Lao graduated from Nanjing University majoring in biophysics in his early years. Good higher education made him understand the essence of being a man, and his major was related to environmental protection, which laid a solid foundation for him to devote himself to environmental protection, public welfare undertakings and selfless dedication to society in the future. Li Laoyu 1974 became attached to environmental protection, 1979 Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau was transferred to the provincial bureau when it was established. Long-term environmental protection work made him realize that doing environmental protection can not only bring home the bacon with a salary, but also accumulate virtue and do good deeds. In a small way, it is to protect the living environment of contemporary people; In a big way, it is to protect the earth and save mankind, and the merits are boundless. After retirement, with a retirement salary, he took community environmental protection as a public welfare undertaking, which became more and more prosperous and became a well-known environmental protection expert.
After retirement, he chose two communities, Mochou Xinyu and Li Yulan, to help the communities create municipal green communities, provincial green communities and low-carbon communities, starting with giving environmental protection classes and holding lectures on environmental protection knowledge. The harder he works, the more energetic he is. From 2006 to 2008, it undertook the project of "Environmental Protection Entering the Community and Showing the New Face of the Community", and was rated as "National Community Education Demonstration Project" by the Ministry of Education. In 2009, the book "Citizen Environmental Education Reader", which he spent five months compiling, was rated as "National Characteristic Curriculum of Community Education" by the Ministry of Education. 20 10 project "practical research on improving residents' environmental quality by giving full play to the role of community environmental protection associations" is one of the sub-projects of Jiangsu adult education research project. The research report of the project was completed and the achievement award was declared. Mochou Lake is a classical garden with a history of thousands of years, and it is called "the first lake in the south of the Yangtze River". In May 2007, cyanobacteria broke out in Taihu Lake, China. Li Lao was keenly aware that it was urgent to protect the famous lake because of the pollution of the lake. At his initiative, Mochou Lake Eco-environmental Protection Association, the first community environmental protection organization in Jiangsu, was established in July of that year, and he was elected as the chairman. Director Shi Zhenhua of Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department also listed this matter as "one of the two highlights of Jiangsu's environmental protection in 2007" at the provincial environmental protection work conference. More than ten media outlets in Jiangsu, Nanjing and other places reported one after another, and China Environmental News also made a special report on "Streets, Experts, Lakes and Environmental Protection", which had a great influence in the whole country.
Under his guidance, from 2007 to 20 1 1, he completed five research projects on environmental protection of Mochou Lake, and systematically investigated the water quality, sediment, plants, soil, birds, atmosphere and pollution sources of Mochou Lake. In addition to providing detailed investigation reports, each survey also provides valuable scientific research results such as Flora Catalogue of Mochou Lake Area, Flora Atlas of Mochou Lake Area, Bird Catalogue of Mochou Lake Area and Bird Atlas of Mochou Lake Area. 20 1 1 April11,Xinhua Daily reported: "Nanjing enthusiastic citizens follow up the investigation, Mochou Lake has a full ecological map." It is said that under his guidance, the research group of the Environmental Protection Association conducted a systematic investigation on the ecology of Mochou Lake.
After each project, Li Lao donated these achievements to Mochou Lake Park Management Office for free on behalf of the research group, which provided a scientific basis for the ecological improvement and planning of the park. 20 1 1 After the atmospheric investigation, he led the research group to submit the Environmental Protection Speech to the Organizing Committee of Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, offering suggestions and suggestions for creating a better urban reception environment for the Youth Olympic Games.
Because it is a public welfare activity with outstanding achievements, the topic of "Ecological Investigation of Mochou Lake Park" was awarded "20 1 1 Annual Excellent Youth Volunteer Service Project in Jiangsu Province" by jiangsu provincial party committee of the Communist Youth League and Jiangsu Volunteers Association. He has just been rated as "20 1 1 Excellent Volunteer" by Nanjing Municipal Civilization Committee, and has been recommended as a candidate for "20 1 1 Top 100 Excellent Volunteers in China and the whole province".
Many things happen. 20 10 won the second prize of the national project "Investigation on Soil and Plant Pollution in Mochou Lake" in the 25th National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition. On 20 1 1 26th National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, the project "Bird Survey in Mochou Lake Park" won the first prize in China. 1. Advocate low carbon and practice green consumption.
At the end of 2009, after the United Nations Climate Summit, the word "low carbon" became one of the top ten buzzwords in the world in just one month. As an old environmental worker, Li Lao immediately realized that this was another opportunity for a new round of environmental publicity. He acted quickly, collected relevant information, compiled the speech of "New Concept of Environmental Protection: Low Carbon is Around" and made it PPT, which was tried out in eight communities in Binhu Street, and then extended to streets, primary and secondary schools in five urban areas such as jianye district to hold lectures on low carbon knowledge. 20 10 during the 22nd Nanjing Science Popularization Week, at the invitation of the Municipal Work Committee, the city's low-carbon academic report meeting was held in Nanjing Science Museum, and four issues were discussed: 1. What is a low-carbon and low-carbon life; Second, why do we need low carbon? Third, how do people achieve low carbon; Fourthly, introduce some low-carbon practices in the past half century.
Li Lao never pays attention to food and clothing, and his requirements are extremely low; On the contrary, it is extremely demanding for work and scientific research. This is also his action plan for himself: minimizing the consumption of social resources and maximizing services. On February 22, 2009, at 65438, the front page of Xinhua Daily described "the environmental ambassador in the alley" in this way: "This is really an out-of-date old man: the older he is, he is wearing an old sports hat and is covered with hair, and he is wearing a woolen coat, which is very inappropriate; Pants and clothes have been eliminated by the younger generation and have been worn for more than 20 years. One winter, it was this outfit. " When it comes to personal low-carbon lifestyle, everyone is amazed: 1964, he bought a watch when he graduated from college and wore it for nearly 30 years. He was "laid off" until the announcement that the watch could not be repaired; Once he was admitted to hospital with stomach bleeding, the doctor asked to stay in bed, but every night he heard the sound of water leaking from the toilet tank. He always struggled to hold the wall and put the floating ball into the tank with small steps. Another time in the factory canteen, a steamed bread fell to the ground. Regardless of everyone's opposition, he quickly picked up the steamed bread, peeled it and ate it. A comrade from Harbin here said with emotion, "No wonder your economy in Jiangsu is doing well, but the cadres in your province are just having a hard time ...". Such a story happens to Li Lao almost every day. He not only did it himself, but also hoped to influence people around him with his own actions. When he found that the young people in the canteen wasted too much food, he made two low-carbon billboards to hang on the canteen wall, which obviously reduced the waste of food, and even the master who collected swill every day had a problem.
2. Establish the first "Youth Low-carbon Education Science Museum" in Nanjing.
While vigorously advocating low-carbon life and holding various kinds of low-carbon knowledge lectures, as the executive deputy director of the street Committee, Li Lao is more concerned about the low-carbon education of young people in his jurisdiction. He boldly envisaged the establishment of a popular science museum for youth low-carbon education, which was strongly supported by the leaders of the municipal and district working committees and Binhu Street. The street gave up 70㎡ of space for site construction, and the Nanjing Science and Technology Activities Foundation for Primary and Secondary School Students provided 60,000 yuan of funding, which was allocated in three years. 20 10, 20 1 1 The first and second phases of the Low-carbon Education Science Museum were completed and officially opened to the public on 20 1 1 summer. All parties responded well and the leaders fully affirmed. The third phase of the 20 12 project is also under preparation.
Low-carbon pavilion is a new thing, and there is no precedent for reference. The only low-carbon pavilion in Hangzhou, with an investment of 400 million, has not yet opened. And 60 thousand to 400 million is impossible to refer to. Therefore, it is really difficult for Li Lao to build a low-carbon pavilion in the past two years: he wants to use a minimum investment of 60,000 yuan to let students have doubts when they enter the low-carbon pavilion, such as "what is low-carbon, why is it low-carbon, and how to be low-carbon", which can be answered one by one after visiting the low-carbon pavilion. Therefore, he had to rack his brains, hoping that he could not break a penny into eight pieces to try to meet the above requirements. In this regard, Li Lao proposed that it is bold to build a low-carbon pavilion; The construction of low-carbon pavilion lasted for two years and achieved initial results. Li is always a pioneer. No wonder everyone who came to learn from the scriptures gave him a thumbs up. Although the method is "crude" and the equipment is crude, the purpose of low-carbon education has been achieved, and the effect is similar to that of investing hundreds of thousands or even millions.
3. Create a low-carbon community
Li Yulan community is the "base camp" and "base area" for Li Lao to create environmental protection public welfare undertakings. Under his long-term advocacy and publicity, the residents there have a strong sense of environmental protection. In 2006, they successfully established a "municipal green community" and a "provincial green community" in 2008, which has the basic conditions for creating a low-carbon community. Therefore, Li Lao decided to help Li Yulan create the first low-carbon community in the province. Different from the previous two activities, "green community" has corresponding standards, while "low carbon community" has no recognized standards at present. To create a "low-carbon community", we must first formulate a "low-carbon community standard", which is another tough nut to crack. The project is planned to be completed in 3 years, with preparation and baseline investigation on 20 1 1, standard formulation on 20 12 and creation on 20 13. At present, the preparatory work has been completed, a leading group has been set up, teams and teams have been formed, and a series of basic investigations have been carried out. On 20 11June1day, a grand launching ceremony was held for the project. If it goes well, this is another thing that dares to be the first in the world, at least belonging to the first low-carbon community in Jiangsu Province. Like the popular science museum of low-carbon education for teenagers, it has a leading and exemplary role. Li Lao is good at capturing the information of the times. Because this information is obviously forward-looking and can reflect the direction of social development, social values and the spirit of the times, it is accurate and can have a wide impact on society.
1, the leader of environmental education for teenagers.
In the 1980s, the central government proposed that "environmental protection should start with dolls". Recognizing this is a direction, Li Lao actively devoted himself to environmental education for teenagers and went deep into primary and secondary schools and kindergartens to talk about environmental protection for children. He regards environmental education for young people as a public welfare undertaking and has given lectures to young people on a voluntary basis for 30 years. 1997 Hu Jie, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, regarded him as a typical example of environmental education for teenagers, interviewed him 1 1 times, and finally made a 25-minute short film and sent it to the international environmental protection conference for broadcasting. Long-term environmental education for teenagers has accumulated rich experience. His research and discussion on strengthening the out-of-school environmental education for teenagers won the second prize in the 2007 paper "National Research on Out-of-school Education for Teenagers".
Li Lao was recognized by the jianye district Municipal Commission of Work and recommended him as the executive deputy director of the Binhu Street Commission of Work. This identity has built a more solid and broad platform for him to carry out environmental education activities for teenagers. He set up a volunteer team of "little environmental guards" mainly for children, and cooperated with the association to carry out environmental protection science and technology practice activities and environmental protection publicity. Many parents of students, even foreigners, have approached the association many times and asked to arrange for their children to participate in the activities carried out by "Little Guardian of Environmental Protection". There were 8 international students in the bird survey in 20 10, 6 international students in this year's atmospheric survey, and 7 international students joined in this biodiversity conservation activity. The joint investigation of Chinese and foreign students has injected vitality into scientific and technological practice and given new colors.
The volunteer team of "Little Guardian of Environmental Protection" was jointly awarded "Excellent Red Scarf Environmental Protection Society in Jiangsu Province in 2009" by the Youth Working Committee, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Communist Youth League Committee. Li Lao was also named "Excellent Counselor in Jiangsu Province in 2009". Young people's environmental education and environmental protection science and technology practice activities have long been the brands of Binhu Street and jianye district Commission for Industry and Commerce. As an expert leader, he was awarded "jianye district Advanced Individual in 2005-2007", "Nanjing Advanced Individual in 2007-2009" and "Jiangsu Advanced Individual in 2007-201KLOC-0".
2. The leader of "small environmental protection" public welfare undertakings in China.
Li Lao has been engaged in environmental protection work in the province for 24 years. He understood this as "big environmental protection" and the environmental protection work of hundreds of thousands of communities across the country as "small environmental protection". In his view, these are the two wings of environmental protection in China, and they are indispensable. As early as 1990s, Li Lao realized that China's "small environmental protection" had started, but there was still a lot of room for development from the formation of climate. How much he wanted to participate in it, but he was majoring in Jiangsu province and environmental protection at that time, so he couldn't get away from it. After the 570,000-word manuscript of the book was published in 2003, he couldn't wait to plunge into the community for nine years. In 2009, his thesis "Practice and Research on Community Environmental Protection" was published at the 5th China Ecological Health Forum. On behalf of community-level environmental protection organizations, Li Laoneng attended the National Ecological Health Forum and discussed the national environmental protection plan with a group of eco-environmental experts, which reflected that his work reflected the direction of social development and the spirit of the times.
In 2007, Li Lao initiated the establishment of Mochou Lake Ecological Environment Protection Association. In the early days of the association, a "hurricane" was reported by the media in Nanjing. Zhang Jun, a reporter from China Environmental News, immediately interviewed Li Lao by telephone after learning the news of the establishment of the association on the Internet. After 35 minutes, he was still wanting more, so he decided to come to Nanjing specially. The whole interview lasted two days. Later, she made a special report on "Streets, Experts, Lakes and Environmental Protection" in China Environmental News. Why can a small community environmental protection organization attract so much attention from all sides? Reporter Zhang Jun gave the answer in her report: it is the general trend to set up environmental protection organizations in the community; It is also the general trend for retired experts to participate in community environmental protection; It is also the general trend to attach importance to the protection of urban lakes and famous lakes. To sum up, it is a small community environmental protection organization, but it leads the social development trend of community environmental protection and plays a demonstration and leading role.
3. Hot issues of environmental protection.
While paying attention to low-carbon issues, in 2009, Li Lao also devoted part of his energy to two strategic environmental issues: wetland ecology and biodiversity. In the public welfare activities of large squares such as "Red-crowned Crane and Yancheng Wetland Protection", "Investigation of Plant Species in Nanjing Qiqiaoweng Wetland" and "Protection of Wildlife and Biodiversity", the power of public opinion supervision was fully utilized, the people's awareness of environmental protection was strengthened, and the government's policy orientation was promoted, which became the highlight of the association's work in recent two years. In addition, Li Lao went to South Korea to study and exchange in early October1165438+,and reached an intention of non-governmental environmental exchange and cooperation with Gwangju Environmental Sports Center in South Korea, pushing Little Mochow Environmental Protection Association to the international stage.
Li Lao has always attached great importance to the role of online media. 20 10 On the occasion of the change of the association in February, Mochou Environmental Protection Network was opened. Mochow. Com has been running for a year, and netizens generally think that it can objectively reflect people's feelings and public opinions. Li Lao still dares to supervise pollution accidents, which has a great social impact!
The prestige of Li Lao and Mochou Environmental Protection Association led by him has increased year by year among the residents, and his touching deeds have been circulated in jianye district and Nanjing-Guangzhou. Because social welfare activities are too complicated, he has to work hard day and night without pay, but he enjoys it. In order to compile the "Citizen Environmental Education Reader", he often worked hard until two or three in the morning, which was five months, which was unimaginable to ordinary people. Afterwards, even Li Lao wondered where the great magic came from, which simply supported him to complete the compilation of this textbook before the national appraisal.
Great efforts and sacrifices also made Li Lao get rich rewards: applause and various honors flew to him like snowflakes. Only 20 10 won 16 awards and received 5 1 media reports. 20 1 1 year won 22 awards and was reported by the media for 34 times. Because of Li Lao's outstanding deeds, he was selected by the Central Committee of the Agricultural Workers' Party as "the propaganda group of advanced deeds of agricultural workers in party member" in 20 1 1, and he is going to tour all parts of the country in August of 201. Later, it was postponed for some reason, but his advanced story material "Don't Whip Yourself-A Record of the Colorful Life of Li Yaodong, an A&M Worker in party member" has been published in Jiangsu A&M Su Xun (No.3, 20 1 1). In August, 2009, Jiangsu Education Station and Jiangsu Environmental Protection Department jointly interviewed and reported Li Lao's advanced deeds, entitled "Environmental Protection Idiot Li Yaodong". 10 minute TV program has infected more people in Jiangsu with his environmental protection spirit. In the same year, China Environmental News made a long report in People's Edition with the title of "Integrating Environmental Protection into Life —— A Record of Li Yaodong, Chairman of Jiangsu Mochou Lake Environmental Protection Association". At the end of the article, the reporter used the subtitle of "Climbing the Everest of Life" in his interview notes, which is also the best interpretation of Li Lao's life realm.