Tina Barrat: Vegan Cuisine Visionary

It’s lunchtime in a gourmet restaurant just off Graham Street in Central. You’re sitting at a varnished wood table with gilded cutlery when your first course arrives: a tin of ‘caviar’ flecked with gold leaf, served with blinis and sour cream on the side. The salty richness of the dish’s

Jill Robinson: Championing Animal Rights in Asia

Traditional medicine (TM) in Asia is infamous for using animal parts as supposed cures for ailments: pangolin scales, rhino horns, tiger bones, the list goes on and on. The demand for these often questionable medicines has been devastating to wildlife populations, contributing to declines of 90% or more. Worse still,

Jo Soo Tang: Cookies for Charity

Hong Kong is known for being a city of overachievers. Its strategic position as a bridge between China and the rest of the world offers abundant opportunities for professional growth. There are many businesspeople living in the city who have harnessed a spirit of self-learning to make something for themselves.Businesswoman

Sidhant Gupta: Inventing Technology to Forge a Better World

From our earliest days, we humans have always been an innovative, technological species. From the simple stone tools of our Ice Age ancestors, we have gone on to invent the wheel, the combustion engine, electricity and the internet, among many other things. This technological savvy has allowed us to shape

Willie Smits: The Innovator saving the Indonesian Rainforests

Prefer not to read? WELL, listen to this article by clicking on the player Once upon a time in the early 2000s, Masarang Mountain in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, was a barren, useless area of steep land where once there had been lush rainforest. On most days, the pitiless sun would

Lindsay Porter: Making Waves for Pink Dolphin Conservation

According to one study, Hong Kong’s seas are home to a whopping 5,943 species. But only one can be safely described as a beloved animal in the public eye: the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, known locally as the pink dolphin. Photo Credit: Naomi Brannan Although this species is fairly widespread across

Applied Wisdom and Purpose: How Closed Loop Partners’ CEO Ron Gonen came to lead the circular economy movement

In his early 30s, Ron Gonen was living “the dream” of many aspiring entrepreneurs. The company he founded, Recyclebank, had grown from a fledgling 2-person start-up into a respectable business with dozens of municipal and commercial clients across the United States. For two years in a row, the company was

Eco-activist Gary Bencheghib: The remarkable story of his mission to change the world, one river at a time

Standing in waterproof overalls, Gary Bencheghib scans the waterway as it rounds a bend in the lush forest. He is standing in what once was a rushing river, where locals would fish and occasionally jump in to cool off from the tropical heat. What Gary is standing in now, however,

Astrid Andersson: Queen of the Cockatoos

It’s early evening and in Hong Kong Park in Central, most of the visitors are slowly making their way towards the exits to go home. But high up in the park’s observation tower, Astrid Andersson has only just arrived. Indeed, this brief period of twilight is exactly the right time

The Resilient Barber- How founder of Fox and Barber, Paul Fox, overcame adversity (and a bout with cancer) to re-invent his life and career

Cordial chatter rises and falls above the upbeat music. A pair of scissors produces a steady rhythm of snipping sounds. In the far, chair a beard is being trimmed with a low toned buzz. A customer enjoying a respite from his busy work schedule takes a sip of his gin

WWF’s Jean-Marc Champagne: Finance for the Planet

The old saying ‘money makes the world go round’ is an extremely apt one in our hyper-capitalist society, which is heavily driven by finance and economics. However, these are areas that environmentalists, despite their frequent calls to change the societal systems causing our current ecological crisis, have tended to avoid

Marrying fashion with Purpose- The entrepreneurial journey of Retykle founder Sarah Garner

In the fall of 2013, Sarah Garner was a blossoming star in the corporate fashion world. Living out the dream of many aspiring fashion professionals, Garner was running the show for renowned Chinese luxury fashion brand, Shanghai Tang, as their Director of Product Development and Merchandising. Having worked for many

Grace Lant: Trailblazing the Sustainable Fashion Runway

Imagine you had a passion for something. Imagine being so passionate about this topic that you choose to spend five years studying it at university, plus an extra masters year. Imagine pouring your soul into it, crafting your whole future career around it, and having the time of your life

Vitasoy CEO Roberto Guidetti- Hong Kong’s business leader committed to incremental improvement at work and in life

“Graziano, my brother!,” Roberto exclaims as he reaches out for a warm Italian embrace. He is arriving for an afternoon drink with a friend at Ciak, a laid-back Italian restaurant in the heart of Hong Kong’s central district. “Right this way, my friend,” Graziano says leading the way to a

Craig Leeson: Filmmaker Intent on Jolting Humanity into Action (before it’s too late)

On a bright morning in Paris, France, Craig Leeson sits down at his kitchen table and pops open his laptop to check his email. He has many things to get to; from responding to inquiries related to the charities and NGOs he works with, checking in with colleagues from his

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WWF’s Andy Cornish: Saving Sharks and Restoring Hong Kong’s Waters

Imagine this scene... Pristine blue water. Small fish swimming about colourful coral that hugs the coastline. Along the ocean floor, small sharks and crustaceans peruse for their next meal. Further from shore the bottom dips away into deeper waters. Fish of all shapes and sizes swim about. Giant grouper, schools

Annabelle Bond- Adventurer and Philanthropist Inspiring Women to Reach New Heights

It was a stunning day on the mountain. The vast blue sky surrounded the climbers making their final push to the summit. Among the brave mountaineers from Chile is a lone female climber, the clamps on her boots grip into the frozen ground. “Crunch, crunch, crunch.” With the summit in

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Co-Owner and Group CEO NiQ Lai- How purpose and competitive fire fuels HKBN’s innovative leader

中文版，看這裏！ The bright morning sunlight pours into the meeting room at HKBN’s headquarters in Kwai Chung. The newly renovated room gleams with a fresh new look. Along the walls are images of HKBN’s recent product launches, its locations across Asia and perhaps most important, the company mantra’s… “Change or Die,”