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to overview Interview Partner Asia |
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Partner China |
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 Andrew
L. Thomson, CEO, Business Environment Council,
Hong Kong, China
“The world will never become sustainable if
we – China – will not become sustainable.”
– how much Hong Kong can impact China’s
pollution and why it’s sometimes just a suitcase
away. Read
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 Wai
On Leung, Managing Director, Waste &
Environmental Technologies, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“The positive thing about the world getting
smaller is that your impact can get bigger.”
– how washing machines can give inspiration
to solve one of the biggest problems of our time,
access to clean drinking water. Read
more... |
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 Andrew
Jones, Guardian, Sanctuary Resorts, Hong
Kong, China
“What is needed is “practical doing
good”.” – what Andrew has to guard
and what brings the world ahead.
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 Dr.
Martin Williams, Writer, Photographer, Conservationist,
Hong Kong, P. R. China
“A lot of people speak for the poultry industry
but wild birds do not really have a voice.”
– how Martin Williams gives birds a voice
and why ecotourism not only screw up places. Read
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 Charles
Frew, Director, Asiatic Marine, Hong Kong,
P. R. China
“My main goal is to keep and protect as much
of the amazing Hong Kong environment as possible.”
– why you should refuse to eat in restaurants
that offer shark fin and why Hong Kong is more than
big finance. Read
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 Daniel
M. Cheng, Managing Director, Dunwell Group,
Hong Kong, P. R. China
„Improving my own factory in terms of waste
is not enough. How can I make a bigger difference?”
– how a successful entrepreneur cleans up
dirty oil and why, through different business associations,
he convinces others that environmental investments
pay.
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 Stephen
K.K. Fong, General Manager, Swire Properties
Ltd., Hong Kong, P. R. China
“Sometimes it just takes the willingness to
spend a little more money!” – how Swire
Properties integrates environmental considerations
into their business and why Mr. Fong wishes Alaska
in Hong Kong.
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 Albert
Oung, Founder & CEO, Roots Biopack Group,
Hong Kong, P. R. China
“We are in a meaningful business.” –
why all the large food chains use biodegradable
packaging material only when they are forced by
law. Interview out for feedback |
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 Raymond
Lo, CEO, Samond Traders Holding, Hong Kong,
P. R. China
“Last year my employees helped raising some
money for a social project. That was a very satisfying
experience for all of us.” – how even
a small company can contribute and why European
legislation is important for Hong Kong entrepreneurs.
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 Kathi
Zellweger, Director, International Cooperation
for Caritas Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“I don’t think that aid recipients should
permanently be reminded of the fact that they are
aid recipients” – how development work
can keep a person away from home and why a boy’s
weight is important. Read
more... |
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 Stanedy
K. F. Yue, Environment Program Manager Quality,
Philips Consumer Electronics, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“For me it is a great satisfaction to see
more and more of our products being “Green
Flagships”.” – why being a decoration
is not enough and what large corporations can do
for sustainability today.
Interview out for feedback |
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 Ilse
Massenbauer-Strafe, Founder, Oxyvital, Hong
Kong, P. R. China
“Normal air conditioning systems take in outside
air, add the in-door pollutants and pump the mixture
out on the street.” – why CO2 emission
reduction will not help us clean the air in our
homes. Read
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 Yongchen
Wang, Founder, Green Earth Volunteers, Beijing,
P. R. China
“We launched an “Adopt a Tree”
campaign within the volunteer network and filled
up to six buses to go out to take care of the trees.”
– why it is not enough to plant trees and
how radio can help to activate 50.000 volunteers.
Interview out for feedback |
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 Sarah
Sable, Microfinance Consultant, PlaNet Finance,
Beijing, P. R. China
“Obviously, we are not all that altruistic.
It’s just that you want to feel that you are
doing something that makes a difference.”
– how Sarah used her experiences gained in
South America to help after 9/11 and why helping
in China is a real challenge.
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 Lixin
Fu, Professor and Director of Air Pollution
Research, Department of Environmental Science and
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R.
China
“Why should people who cannot afford a car
breathe in the dirt of the ones who can?”
– why emission reduction would require real
innovative thinking and acting and who breaths what.
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 Zhang
Hehe, Project officer, Friends of Nature,
Beijing, P. R. China
“I guess working for an NGO, accepting a much
lower salary than in the private sector, is probably
a question of values.” – what comes
after founding a NGO and what an antelope has to
do with a bus. Read
more... |
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 Lisa
Wu, Student, Founder & President, SIFE
Beijing Chapter, Beijing, P. R. China
“Many people want to help but often they don’t
have the channels” – how eBay is good
for poor women and why students bother. Read
more... |
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 Bonnie
Wang, Student, Beijing Sports University,
Beijing, P. R. China
“I don’t want to live my life just for
myself” – how Bonnie continuous her
volunteerism in China and what positive effects
a Tsunami catastrophe can have. Read
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 Dolores
van Dongen, Founder & CEO, Sunshine Learning
Center, Beijing, P. R. China
“Kids don’t want to go on vacation,
anymore; they prefer school!” – how
Dolores turned a very difficult situation in a solution
with role model character not only for schools for
children needing special care. Read
more... |
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 Qing
Wu, Professor Beijing Foreign Studies University,
Deputy Beijing Municipal/Haidian District People's
Congresses, Director Beijing Cultural Development
Center for Rural Women, Beijing, P. R. China
“I believe in accountability and responsibility.”
– why the “lady with the constitution”
does not mind amendments and why women can change
China. Read
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 Christoph
Moellers, Chief Representative, Holcim Beijing
Representative Office, Beijing, P. R. China
“If you want to achieve sustainability, you
must really want it, really aim for it.” –
why Christoph Moellers prefers the cement industry
to the internet start-up world. Read
more... |
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 Andrew
Wei-Min Lee, Assistant Director, Cheong Kong
Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Beijing,
P. R. China
“I want China to help itself - there is enough
potential, money and good will here.” –
why money and technical skills are necessary even
though it’s love that leads a person. Interview
out for feedback |
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 Markus
tho Pesch, Director Beijing Office, DEG &
Claudia Wink, Investment
Manager Special Programs, Beijing, P. R. China
“It helps a lot that we do not have a exaggerated
profit pressure – this gives us the trust
of the people we work with” – how Germany
contributes to a sustainable China. Read
more… |
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 Dr.
Glenn Howard Frommer, Sustainability Development
Manager, MTR Corporation, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“Don’t leave your soul at home when
you come to work.” – how long-term investments
pay off and why care about potential ones.
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 Renée
Berman, Vice President, Community Investment,
Credit Suisse First Boston, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“The pro bono work for NGOs at Bain, my consulting
work for The Bridgespan Group, and my role as a
Program Officer at The Goldman Sachs Foundation
was much more meaningful and gave me much more satisfaction.”
– how meaningful work matters for people with
all types of skills. Read
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 Annie
S. C. Wu, Standing Committee Member, The
National Committee of Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference; Vice Chairman, Beijing
Air Catering Co.; Board Member, World Trade Centers
Association, Hong Kong, P. R. China
“The inequalities in the world are less and
less about race or age and increasingly about education.”
– how to do a hundred things right and why
Tibetan culture can be one of them. Read
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