About Us

Our mission is to improve cultural and environmental awareness and cooperation around the world. To this end, we conduct exchange and apprenticeship programs that function to establish an international community of learners.

Peter Lynch

Founder and Executive Director (left)

Xia Tao

Honorary Director (right)

 

 

Our Programs

Green Across the Pacific is unique because our programs are

  • True reciprocal exchanges, with visits to China or Japan and North America.
  • Ones in which students and teachers work and learn together.
  • Ones in which cultural exchange is facilitated by focusing on a field of common interest.
  • Enhanced by a collaboration of state and private institutions, business groups and concerns in Vermont, and an equivalent collaboration in China and Japan.


Our goals are to...

  • Develop leadership skills among students through a balanced and detailed study of current environmental topics.
  • Create and maintain a community for cultural exchange and understanding among Chinese, or Japanese, and American students, teachers, field scientists and business people through study of a common interest.
  • Inform public debate about current environmental topics while increasing awareness about the significance of China's development.
  • Increase interest in Asia and environmental studies among American students and educators.
  • Provide American, Chinese and Japanese students and educators with...
    • an overview of natural history and resource management in China, Japan and the United States with a special emphasis on South China, Tottori Prefecture and Vermont.
    • an understanding of the methods, interested parties, and politics involved in natural resource management in South China, Tottori, and Vermont.