Magical Urbanism, a website about urbanization, design and social change, is maintained by Mike Ernst. I'm an urban planner and designer based in San Francisco. I am a graduate of the A Tree Made of Chopsticks
Every year Chinese consumes 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks, equaling about 25 million trees. Treehugger has this post about a clever campaign by a Chinese environmental group to help promote the use of reusable chopsticks.
To raise awareness about the problem, the group gathered 30,000 pairs of used disposable chopsticks. They then used the chopsticks to construct a five-meter-high tree in a busy part of the city - and then chopped it down. Volunteers were stationed by the fallen “tree” to hand out reusable chopsticks to curious passers-by, while a sign laid out the consumption statistics and warned: “Our trees are enough to feed us for only another 20 years.”
Ads of the World has more information about the campaign; via Treehugger.
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