🌏 Future Green 5 Must Reads 🌏


Future Green 5 Must Reads

Hey there sustainable food advocates – as the need for action on food systems and climate only grows stronger, we’re maximising the reach of our thought-leadership work, by moving our meetups online in 2025. Stay tuned! I’m also writing a book about the first five years of Future Green Global!

Next week I’ll be speaking to an audience drawn from 37 countries and regions about HK’s food sector sustainability push. You are the heroes that make this change happen daily!

🤝 4 years, 40 in-person food sustainability meetups. We’ve loved every minute, every interaction, every memory. You inspire us, and we pledge to keep inspiring you via virtual meetups.

🎤 Save the date! 3rd December for my panel at HKTDC’s 25th Hong Kong Forum, all about the latest trends in doing business in the city and on the mainland.

📚 Q1 2025: my Train-the-Trainer course in Carbon Literacy can make you the agent of change and of colleague buy-in, for your workplace!

🥜 51% of China's agricultural emissions can be mitigated by focus on traditional staples: tofu, nuts, legumes, and other vegetables, says the Food and Land Use Coalition.

🌍 Nitrogen fertiliser changed how nutrients cycle worldwide, with runoff creating ‘dead zones’ in rivers and oceans. The world needs to address this chemical addiction.

CULINARY CULTURE: ABOUT SHARING RESOURCES AND TIME!

How fitting our last in-person meetup was about how food connects people everywhere, with refugees to HK making their own culinary contribution.

MEMO TO THE WORLD, ON HK’S FOOD SECTOR TRANSFORMATION

I’m a 25th Hong Kong Forum speaker, to address a global audience on the city’s sustainability steps. I’ll update you soon, after next week’s gathering.

TRAIN-THE-TRAINER IN CARBON LITERACY Q1 2025!

Our Carbon Literacy training already aims at the knowledge-multiplier effect in the workplace. My Train-the-Trainer course can supercharge your leadership role!

DIET SHIFTS CAN HALVE CHINA AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS

Meat consumption often rises with economic development. Prof. Fan Shenggen wants China to break that global habit and return to its lower-emission traditional diet.

WHAT FED THE PLANET HAS BECOME AN (ACTUALLY) TOXIC HABIT

The world has been addicted to modifying soil with external chemicals since at least the industrial revolution circa 200 years ago.


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