■中大学生的获奖报告指出，「无冷气日」只提升大部分学校对「无冷气」文化的认知，未能有效令学校和学生养成持久习惯。
「低碳生活」既是风行于两岸三地的潮语，也是中国政府近年制定的战略新方向。3名中大学生以本港节能运动的经验、以及分析社会参与「无冷气日」活动的心态所撰写的报告，获北京科技大学主办的「『低碳生活，你我同行』─2010北京科技大学与香港高校节能减排研讨会」港校组唯一的一等奖。有港生说，研讨会上两地学生的关注点略有不同，其中港生多从生活角度探索低碳生活的实践方式，北京学生则从科技和大众心理角度设计产品。
此次研讨会除北京科技大学的师生参与外，香港的中大、科大、理大、城大及浸大亦提交30多篇主题报告。其中，中大酒店及旅游管理学院二年级生张凯萍、环境科学哲学硕士生杨松颖和环境科学系三年级生庞隽欣所撰写的《从「无冷气日」运动到「识用冷气」》的报告获得香港高校组别一等奖。报告详细介绍以大学生为主的环保团体「自然足印」从04年发起至今的「无冷气日」运动。
报告提到，尽管参与「无冷气日」的学校到08年已增至逾300间，但因09年「自然足印」首次举办「无冷气周」，部分学校反映维持时间过长，故令参与学校减少逾一半。报告分析称，去年的活动较以往反应冷淡，可见此类「无冷气日」只是提升大部分学校对「无冷气」文化的兴趣及认知，未能有效令学校和学生养成持久习惯。
CU No Air-conditioning Day Report Awarded Prize in Beijing
"Low carbon lifestyle" is not just popular modern language in H.K, Taiwan and the mainland China; it is a new strategy formulated by the Chinese government in recent years. Three university students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong(HKCU)wrote a report in which they described the H.K experience in energy conservation and analyzed the mentality of those who had participated in the "No air-conditioning day" movement. Their report won the only first class award in the H.K tertiary institutes section in a seminar organized by the University of Science and Technology Beijing(USTB). The seminar, entitled "Low carbon lifestyle for both you and me", the 2010 Energy Conservation and Pollution Reduction Seminar, saw participation of both USTB and tertiary institutes in H.K. Some H.K students said that they could realize that H.K students put more emphasis on applications of low carbon lifestyle in daily lives while Beijing students concentrated more on designing technological products.
The seminar was attended by both teachers and students of USTB. Besides, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University had also submitted more than 30 reports on various topics. The report compiled by a team of students from the CU, namely, Cheung Oi-ping, second year student of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Yeung Chung-wing, MPhil student in environmental science and Pang Wing-yan, third year student in environmental science program, won the first class award in the H.K tertiary institutes section. The report titled From "No air-conditioning day" to "Wise use of air-conditioning" detailed the "no air-conditioning day" movement initiated in 2004 by Footprint, a green group comprising mainly of university students.
According to the report, although the number of schools participating in the "no air-conditioning day" campaign rose to more than 300 in 2008, less than half of the schools took part in the first "No air-conditioning week" launched by Footprint in 2009 because some of the schools had considered the duration too lengthy. In the analysis put forward by the report of the low response rate, it was claimed that the "No air-conditioning day" movement had managed to simply raise an interest and awareness towards the no air-conditioning lifestyle, but failed to nurture a sustained habit among the schools and students.
■Translation by 开明 http://paper.wenweipo.com [2010-06-03]
