廖晓义是中国第一位获得有“诺贝尔环境奖”之称的“苏菲环境奖”的民间环保人士。作为北京地球村环境文化中心的创办人和负责人,她从2002年起被北京奥组委邀请担任环境顾问,配合北京奥组委等机构出台了绿色奥运生态旅游的宣言和行动指南。2006年,廖女士入选“2006绿色中国年度人物”。本文摘自廖女士接受国外一家媒体的采访,经廖女士亲自审阅并添加部分内容后发表于本刊。 Liao Xiaoyi is China’s first non-governmental environmentalist who received the “Soviet Environment Award” for the “Nobel Prize in Environment.” As the founder and responsible person of Beijing Global Village Environmental Culture Center, she has been invited by Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee as an environmental consultant since 2002 and cooperated with the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and other institutions to issue the declaration and action guide for the Green Olympic Ecotourism. In 2006, Ms. Liu was selected as “2006 Green China Person of the Year.” This article is an excerpt from Ms. Liao’s interview with a foreign media and was published in this issue after Ms. Liu personally reviewed and added some content.