May 28 Cooperative Green School: From origin visits to rural ecotourism

◎Event summary:

The Taiwan Thousand Miles Trail Association began with "dreaming of a thousand-mile trail around the island," starting from your everyday life and ours, emphasizing environmental ethics and intrinsic value, and the practice of the values of getting close to nature and protecting the land; its activities include green right-of-way, handmade trails, zero-food-miles, waste and carbon reduction, one village one forest path, and public-interest mini-trips to farming and fishing villages... Through these themed activities it has built up a great deal of momentum for the land and the environment, turning it into something that leads more people to understand their surroundings and then protect the environment; the cooperative, starting from promoting collective purchasing, has never spared any effort in caring about and supporting rural land, and has organized many place-of-origin visits to care about and understand the current situation of rural villages and producers, so that more people can use their spending to protect those willing to produce in a friendly way, but place-of-origin visits can have more possibilities, and more action can come out of understanding. We invite you to come and talk with us about how, by stepping on the soil of rural villages, we can get close to and protect the land.

◎Time: Session 2, May 28 (Wed) 18:10-20:40

◎Venue: 3F meeting room, Zhongshan Civic Hall (No. 128, Section 2, Zhongshan North Road, Taipei City)

◎Capacity: 60 people (space is limited, please register as soon as possible)

◎Topic: From place-of-origin visits to rural ecotourism

◎Speakers: Xu Mingqian, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Taiwan Thousand Miles Trail Planning Center
Wu Meixiang, Board Member of the Homemakers United Foundation Life Consumption Cooperative

◎Session schedule:

◎Transportation:
1. Zhongshan Civic Hall: Exit 1 of MRT Minquan West Road Station, walk about 5 minutes toward Zhongshan North Road, then turn right and walk about 3 minutes to Zhongshan Civic Hall.

◎Registration contact:

1. For detailed session information, please check the Homemakers United Foundation Life Consumption Cooperative website (http://www.hucc-coop.tw/).

2. Unified online registration (http://goo.gl/Z60TMI), for related questions please call (02)2999-6122#518 Li Jianwei.

◎Notes:
1. All sessions are free; environmental groups will hold charity sales on site, please give them your support.
2. Tea and snacks are provided on site; in response to environmental protection, please bring your own cup.