🌏 Future Green 5 Must Reads 🌏


Future Green 5 Must Reads

Hey there sustainable food advocates – if you can pinpoint a sustainability challenge or problem, you’re on the path to meeting or solving it.

🎤 Join me at a panel talk for Eco Expo Asia on 1st November to hear my take on best practice for food waste intervention design.

🍲 44%: the reduction in food waste over 12 weeks via a project offering diners smaller portions and displaying leftovers.

🔪 Green Kitchen Initiative: a tremendous sustainability starting point for food-sector tenants. GKI 3.0 coming soon!

🎯 100th birthday: HK’s Vitasoy aims to get there and beyond by future-proofing the drinks-maker’s operations via young talent that has sustainability firmly in mind.

☕ 125 million: people depending on the coffee sector for their livelihoods, according to Fairtrade Foundation. A sustainable sector is a must.

🌍 US$33 trillion annually: a 30-year-old (likely low-end) average estimate of the economic value of the Earth’s biosphere.

REVISIT FOOD HABITS, DON’T MAKE RECYCLING THE DEFAULT

Recycling bins marked ‘food’, show many people opt for ‘feelgood’, actually compartmentalising sustainability. Our October Meetup explored waste control via portion size, behavioural nudges.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT (AND ACTION) FOR F&B TENANTS

You’re an F&B tenant seeking sustainability routes? We and Swire Properties teamed for a workshop and road map based on the Green Kitchen Initiative.

VITASOY TO CUT 2013-LEVEL ENERGY INPUTS PER PRODUCT UNIT BY 2026

Vitasoy CEO Roberto Guidetti shows his commitment to the company’s sustainability path, by making sure he personally interviews candidates for sustainability roles.

COFFEE SMALLHOLDERS BEST ECO-CUSTODIANS: FAIRTRADE

Small growers = better sustainability in Latin America’s coffee sector. Big producers = resilience to market, legislative changes. One solution = strengthen small-producer organisations.

CAN AND SHOULD THERE BE A PRICE ON THE NATURAL WORLD?

Nature: not merely something to bend to humanity’s will. But putting a price on its needs as well as its produce may be usefully unsentimental.


Is Your Favourite Fish Contributing to Ocean Destruction? Most people don't think about where their seafood comes from... but the truth about unsustainable practices might surprise you. Discover how your choices can either harm or help the oceans.

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We work at the intersection of food and sustainability, delivering knowledge sharing and insights that help build end-to-end solutions from strategies to implementation with the mission to scale sustainable food systems. Our partners include foodservice businesses, retail businesses, NGOs, and governmental organisations.

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  • Members Monthly Meetups and regular knowledge sharing webinars with experts on relevant topics aligning with the Future Green framework
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