Project Overview

案例概述

The Lakeside Youth Service Center in Wujin District, Changzhou launched the ecological renovation project of idle spaces in Gehu Lake Community. By February 2025, it had completed the development of four spaces in phases and linked up with the "Xitaihu Lakeside · Mycelium Neighborhood" mini-program. This mini-program, focusing on communities around Xitaihu Lake, integrates event release and registration, host showcase and service connection, and "Junzi" (Fungus Seed) point incentives. It connects residents, hosts, and friendly merchants, serving as a digital hub for promoting community co-construction and governance as well as the symbiosis of public welfare and business.

常州市武进区湖畔小站青少年公益服务中心在滆湖社区启动闲置空间生态化改造项目，至2025年2月分阶段完成四大空间打造，并联动“西太湖畔・菌丝邻里圈”小程序。该小程序聚焦西太湖周边社区，集活动发布与报名、主理人展示与服务对接、“菌籽”积分激励于一体，串联居民、主理人、友善商家，是推动共建共治与公益商业共生的数字化枢纽。

In June 2022, the idle space on the second floor of Gehu Lake Community was transformed into a Nature Library, a science popularization hub with 6,000 nature science books and zero-waste decorations. In January 2024, a container on Xitaihu International Camping Island was revitalized into a Zero-Waste Store and Garden to deepen resource recycling and public participation. From January to February 2025, the Xingxin Post at Xitaihu Lanyue Bay was renovated into Xingtai Coffee, which guides low-carbon living through green consumption and creates a "life-oriented environmental protection experience" scenario. In February 2025, the Mycelium Art Museum and Habitat Garden were built, and an "Host Empowerment Program" was launched in collaboration with enterprises to carry out environmental protection activities and translate environmental concepts into cultural expressions.

2022年6月，滆湖社区二楼闲置空间改造成自然图书馆，以6000册自然科学类图书加零废装饰打造科普阵地；2024年1月盘活西太湖国际露营岛集装箱建成零废商店及花园，深化资源循环与公众参与实践；2025年1-2月将西太湖揽月湾星心驿站改造成星苔咖啡，以绿色消费引导低碳生活，形成“生活化环保体验”场景；2025年2月打造菌丝体美术馆及生境花园，联动企业落地“主理人赋能计划”，承载环保活动，将环保理念转化为文化表达。

The project has held over 500 activities, attracted 25,000 participants, and cultivated 15 environmental hosts. It was awarded the 2024 Wujin District Excellent Volunteer Service Project, forming a governance model of "digital empowerment + spatial practice + community co-creation".

项目累计开展活动500余场，吸引2.5万人次参与，培育15名环保主理人，获2024年武进区优秀志愿服务项目，形成“数字赋能+空间实践+社群共创”治理模式。

Company/Organization Profile

机构简介

The Lakeside Youth Service Center in Wujin District, Changzhou was established in 2017 and officially registered in 2021. Since its inception, the organization has consistently focused on environmental and educational issues, rooted in the local context of Changzhou. Guided by humanistic education principles, it organizes diverse activities for children and adolescents, while also providing advocacy, event planning, and consulting services to actively promote sustainable lifestyles that are friendly to both the environment and children.

常州市武进区湖畔小站青少年公益服务中心团队始于2017年，2021年正式注册。自成立以来，机构持续聚焦环境与教育领域，扎根常州本地，秉持人本教育理念，通过组织青少年儿童开展多样活动，并提供宣讲、活动策划与咨询服务，积极推广对环境友好、对儿童友好的可持续发展理念与生活方式。

With a mission to build local ecological communities and nurture environmentally conscious citizens, the center collaborates with neighborhoods, schools, urban parks, and other partners to regularly conduct activities such as nature experiences, ecological projects, reading promotions, environmental science popularization, and public lectures for both young people and adults.

机构以构建在地生态社群和培育绿色公民为使命，联合社区、学校、城市公园等多方力量，持续为儿童及成人开展自然体验、生态营造、阅读推广、环保科普及公益讲座等活动。

Project Outcome

项目成果

1. Waste Reduction: 80% of the furniture in the spaces is repurposed from waste and second-hand items, including old shipping pallets, unused desks, bookcases, second-hand wood, refrigerators, and lamps. Approximately 2.3 tons of old items (nearly 100 pieces of "waste") donated by more than 20 families have gained a new lease of life. It handles 600 kg of kitchen waste through composting annually, with a kitchen waste recycling rate of 60%. Additionally, it has reduced the use of disposable plastic bags by 850, and is expected to cut carbon emissions by 0.18 tons per year.

废弃物减量：空间中80%的家具来自废旧物和二手物品改造，20余个家庭捐赠的约2.3吨旧物（近百件“垃圾”）重获新生；年堆肥处理厨余600公斤，厨余垃圾资源化率达60%；减少一次性塑料袋850个，预计年减少碳排放0.18吨。

2. Public Participation: It has held over 500 activities such as environmental lectures, handcrafting, and nature observation, mobilizing more than 25,000 participants. Among them, over 450 families have deeply participated in practical activities.

公众参与：累计开展环保讲座、手作、自然观察等活动超500场，动员公众参与人次超2.5万，其中450余组家庭深度参与实践活动。

3. Ecological Improvement: One Wild Bird Habitat Garden and one Zero-Waste Garden have been built. Actions like coffee grounds composting and ecological composting have improved soil fertility. The four spaces work together to optimize the community's micro-ecological environment and support biodiversity conservation.

生态改善：建成野鸟生境花园、零废花园各1处，通过咖啡渣堆肥、生态堆肥等提升土壤肥力，四大空间联动优化社区生态微环境，助力生物多样性保护。

4. Social Benefits: 15 environmental hosts have been cultivated, who have facilitated over 80 community activities. A community co-creation mechanism has been established, strengthening the community's environmental protection consensus and self-governance capabilities.

社会效益：培育15名环保主理人，促成80余场社区活动，构建社群共创机制，强化社区环保共识与自治能力。

5. Governance Efficiency: The "online mini-program + offline spaces" model has reduced the community's environmental protection operating costs by 30%. The 15 hosts have generated over 120,000 yuan in total income through space operation and activity planning, forming a replicable low-carbon governance plan.

治理效能：“线上小程序+线下空间”模式降低社区环保运营成本30%；15名主理人通过空间运营、活动策划累计创收超12万元，形成可复制的低碳治理方案。

Project Highlights

项目亮点

1. Efficient Resource Reuse: Prioritize activating idle community spaces, reuse waste materials to renovate spatial facilities, and deeply practice the concept of circular environmental protection.

资源高效复用：优先激活社区闲置场地，复用废旧材料改造空间设施，深度践行循环环保理念。

2. Significant Host Empowerment: Empower core members through specialized cultivation programs, enabling them to operate spaces independently and plan activities, thus activating the long-term usage value of the spaces.

主理人赋能显著：通过专项培育计划赋能核心成员，使其自主运营空间、策划活动，激活空间长效使用价值。

3. Strong Adaptability: Based on the renovation of existing spaces, the model is lightweight with controllable costs, requiring no large-scale new construction and being suitable for the needs of various communities.

适配性极强：依托既有空间改造，模式轻量化、成本可控，无需大规模新建，适配各类社区需求。

4. Ecological Synergy & Recognition: Multiple spaces with complementary functions plus digital linkage via the mini-program form an ecological closed loop.

生态协同且受认可：多空间功能互补+小程序数字联动形成生态闭环，项目获2024年武进区优秀志愿服务项目。

Project Implementation

项目实施

1. Brief Implementation Plan and Process: Launched in June 2022, the project advanced the renovation and operation of idle spaces in four phases until 2025, while linking with the "Xitaihu Lakeside · Mycelium Neighborhood" mini-program to build a collaborative ecosystem.

简要实施方案与过程：项目于2022年6月启动，至2025年分四阶段推进闲置空间改造与运营，同步联动“西太湖畔・菌丝邻里圈”小程序构建协同生态。

2. Phase 1: Renovation of Lakeside Nature Library (June 2022). The team surveyed idle activity rooms in Gehu Lake Community and coordinated with the community to finalize the renovation plan. Waste materials such as old wooden planks and cartons donated by residents were collected for decoration. Over 6,000 books (70% being nature science categories) were integrated to complete the space layout, with supporting e-reading and video viewing areas. Environmental science lectures and nature education activities were launched simultaneously, turning it into a public environmental awareness education space for knowledge lectures, volunteer training, and nature popularization.

第一阶段：湖畔小站自然图书馆改造（2022.6）。调研社区闲置活动室，对接滆湖社区敲定改造方案，收集居民捐赠旧木板、纸箱等废旧材料用于装饰，整合6000余册图书（70%为自然科学类）完成空间布设，配套电子阅读区与影视观赏区，同步启动环保科普讲座、自然教育等活动，打造公众环保认知教育空间。

3. Phase 2: Construction of Zero-Waste Store and Zero-Waste Garden (January 2024). Located on Xitaihu International Camping Island, the project collected donations from families, renovated waste materials, and built supporting Zero-Waste Garden and compost bins. Activities including ecological composting, second-hand item circulation, and green life handcrafting were carried out, forming a zero-waste model.

第二阶段：零废商店及零废花园打造（2024.1）。位于西太湖国际露营岛，募集家庭捐赠进行废旧物改造，配套建设零废花园及堆肥箱，开展生态堆肥、二手流转、绿色生活手作等活动，形成零废模式。

4. Phase 3: Launch of Xingtai Coffee (Xingxin Post) (February 2025). An idle convenience service point was renovated, with reusable tableware and a gardening area set up to create a "plant gardening + zero-waste service" scenario. A "bring-your-own-cup discount" policy was launched, and monthly themed activities "Rebirth of Withered Plants" were held to extend life-oriented environmental protection experiences.

第三阶段：星苔咖啡（星心驿站）落地（2025.2）。改造闲置便民服务点，布设可重复使用杯具与园艺区，打造“植物园艺+零废服务”场景，推出“自带杯减现”政策，每月开展“枯萎植物的重生”主题活动，延伸生活化环保体验。

5. Phase 4: Construction of Mycelium Art Museum and Habitat Garden (February 2025). An art museum was built using idle supporting spaces in the community, with functional areas such as the Root Study Room. A wild bird habitat garden was simultaneously built nearby. The "Host Empowerment Program" was launched, and residents were organized to co-create ecological artworks.

第四阶段：菌丝体美术馆及生境花园建设（2025.2）。利用社区闲置配套空间搭建美术馆，设置根系书房等功能区，同步在周边打造野鸟生境花园，启动“主理人培育计划”，组织居民共创生态艺术作品。

6. Comparison Before and After Implementation & Key Support - Changes in Space Status: Before implementation, the 4 spaces were all idle with severe resource waste; after renovation, they have transformed into multi-functional green spaces equipped with zero-waste decorations, compost bins, habitat gardens and other facilities, and the utilization rate of idle spaces has increased.

实施前后对比与关键支撑 - 空间状态变化：实施前4处空间均为闲置场地，资源浪费严重；实施后蜕变为功能复合的绿色空间，配套零废装饰、堆肥箱、生境花园等设施，闲置空间盘活率提升。

7. Ecological Benefits: There were no ecological supporting facilities before, and disposable waste was discarded randomly; after renovation, two gardens have been built, with improved vegetation coverage, increased annual kitchen waste treatment capacity via composting, reduced use of plastic bags and disposable items, and promoted green concepts and low-carbon behaviors.

生态效益变化：改造前无生态配套，一次性垃圾随意丢弃；改造后建成双花园，植被覆盖率提升，堆肥年处理厨余增加，塑料袋及一次性用品减少，传播绿色理念、推广低碳行为。

8. Public Participation: Environmental activities in the community were scarce before, with less than 100 participants; after implementation, over 500 activities have been held, attracting 25,000 participants, cultivating 15 environmental hosts, who have independently organized nearly 100 activities using community spaces and the mini-program.

公众参与变化：实施前社区环保活动匮乏，参与人次不足百；实施后累计开展活动500余场，吸引2.5万人次参与，培育15名环保主理人，主理人自主利用社区空间及小程序开展活动近百场。

9. Challenges and Responses - Low enthusiasm of residents in the early stage: Interesting activities such as parent-child composting and old item exchange were held to lower participation thresholds, and a point incentive mechanism via the mini-program was adopted to gradually form a stable participant group.

挑战与应对 - 初期居民参与积极性低：通过亲子堆肥、旧物兑换等趣味活动降低参与门槛，借助小程序积分激励机制，逐步形成稳定参与群体。

10. Insufficient technology for ecological facility construction: Horticultural experts were invited to guide vegetation selection for the habitat garden, and environmental protection organizations were united to train composting techniques, ensuring the practical effect of facility implementation.

生态设施建设技术不足：邀请园艺专家指导生境花园植被选配，联合环保机构培训堆肥技术，确保设施落地实效。

11. Low coordination efficiency among multiple subjects: A "government-community-enterprise-organization" four-party communication meeting mechanism was established to clarify the division of responsibilities for venues, materials, and operations, ensuring smooth connection between renovation and activities.

跨主体协调效率不高：建立“政府-社区-企业-机构”四方沟通会机制，明确场地、物资、运营等分工，保障改造与活动衔接顺畅。

12. Internal and External Support - External Support: Xihu Sub-district Office and Gehu Lake Community provided venues and policy guidance; enterprises donated composting equipment, coffee grounds and other materials; Wujin District Social Work Department awarded the project the "2024 Excellent Volunteer Service Project" to strengthen social recognition.

内外部支持 - 外部支持：西湖街道办事处、滆湖社区提供场地及政策指导；企业捐赠堆肥设备、咖啡渣等物资；武进区社工部授予项目2024年度优秀志愿服务项目，强化社会认可。

13. Internal Support: The core team of the organization conducted overall planning based on its nature education experience since 2017. 4 full-time staff are responsible for space operation and organizing environmental and educational activities, while the volunteer team ensures the implementation of activities, forming a professional executive force.

内部支撑：机构核心团队依托2017年以来的自然教育经验统筹规划，4名全职人员负责空间运营与开展环境与教育议题活动，志愿者团队保障活动落地，形成专业的执行力量。

Project Impact & Sustainability

项目影响力、可推广性与可持续性

1. Mechanism Innovation: It adopts the "spatial function synergy + host empowerment" model. Through the community host cultivation program, 15 hosts are systematically empowered to independently operate spaces and plan activities, realizing high-frequency reuse and long-term activation of spaces. Leveraging the geographical advantage of Xitaihu Lake, it links community low-carbon practices with wetland protection, and disseminates wetland ecological value through nature education and biological observation activities. This provides a new path for the coordinated development of "green spaces - wetland protection", echoing the requirements for behavioral optimization and ecological synergy in the "Beautiful China · Green Space User Action".

机制创新：采用“空间功能协同+主理人赋能”模式，通过社区主理人培育计划系统赋能15名主理人，使其自主运营空间、策划活动，实现空间高频复用与长效激活；立足西太湖区位优势，将社区低碳实践与湿地保护联动，通过自然教育、生物观测等活动传导湿地生态价值，为“绿色空间-湿地保护”协同发展提供新路径，呼应“美丽中国・绿色空间使用者行动”中行为优化与生态协同要求。

2. High Replicability: Based on the renovation of idle spaces, it prioritizes the use of existing resources and waste materials, resulting in controllable costs. The host empowerment mechanism and the "space operation + public welfare activities" model are suitable for various urban and rural communities. Wetland-related practices can be replicated in surrounding areas.

可推广性强：依托闲置空间改造，优先利用既有资源与废旧材料，成本可控；主理人赋能机制与“空间运营+公益活动”模式适配各类城乡社区，湿地关联玩法可复制至周边区域。

3. Sufficient Sustainability: Independent operation by hosts reduces dependency, and the "government-enterprise-community" linkage ensures resource supply. The follow-up plan includes renovating 2 additional spaces, upgrading the host training system, launching public welfare projects for wetland ecological monitoring, and issuing the Green Space Operation Manual to contribute to regional green development.

可持续性充足：主理人自主运营降低依赖，“政府+企业+社群”联动保障资源供给；后续计划新增2处空间改造，升级主理人培训体系，开展湿地生态监测公益项目，输出《绿色空间运营手册》，助力区域绿色发展。

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