For two days, 848 members of the association from 11 countries met in the Jing Si Hall in Hualien. They shared their experiences in promoting charity, vegetarianism and environmental protection. The quickest way to reduce the carbon footprint and save the earth is to become vegetarian. In July this year, Tzu Chings in Malaysia launched a campaign entitled ‘vegetarian generation’, with a target of one million CO2-reducing meals – that is 10,000 young adults each eating 100 meatless meals. They started the campaign at 28 colleges in Kuala Lumpur; members in each school developed a strategy to promote vegetarianism among fellow students – some proposed one meatless day a week, some set up an educational booth and others used media like Facebook, where they explained that being vegetarian was the best way to save the planet, or helped their classmates buy a meatless lunch box. In front of the Tzu Ching house in Kuala Lumpur, the members grow vegetables. They save the kitchen waste and turn it into compost, to be used as natural fertilizer; everyone enjoys the natural, delicious and inexpensive food.


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