What is "greenkeepers"

n. (plural of greenkeeper English)

Greenkeepers is an international, non-profit, and non-governmental service organization founded in 2009. Headquartered in Beijing, China, Greenkeepers is devoted to inspiring environmental awareness through local impacts within communities across the globe, including but not limited to its offices in Beijing, San Jose, and Jakarta. Greenkeepers aspires to fundamentally change the way people see environmental work, and is renowned within local communities for its approach of leading by example - not only transforming the environment or promoting environmental awareness, but also redesigning societies' consumptions of limited resources.

Greenkeepers was established in August 2009 by students Kevin Xiao, Vivian Xiao, Olivia Tan, Jeffrey Yu, Philipa Yu, and Laura Du. Since its inception the organization has remained completely student-run and has received generous support from parents and teachers, and members of both local and international communities alike. Although originally composed of only the founders, in the span of five years Greenkeepers has burgeoned into a multi-national organization stretching across three continents, with over 300 total members in its lifetime. The organization's growth is a testament to its principle tenet that "everything big, was originally small."

In its lifetime, Greenkeepers has initiated various projects in local, regional, and global scales. Notable accomplishments and on-going projects include the Dragon Path River Cleanup, the Sichuan Book Drive, and the Beijing Tree Planting Initiative.