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Involvement: Helping Lead our Asia Pacific Community
| Networking is good, but standing up in a room full of 100+ people for several hours can be a bit daunting. Never fear, we have a good alternative. Join us one Thursday evening of each month for Forward Thinking Thursdays. It's a chance to have an intimate conversation with switched on people over a glass of wine, and connect on the issues that really matter. Its about your business, your community, your environment, your world. Find new resources and perspectives among some like-minded professionals. Keen to join us? Keep an eye on the Forward Thinking Blog for monthly event announcements and information. Catch you at the next event! |
| TED is an online phenomena that most would be familiar with. When the mainstay of inspiring ideas started to go local with "TEDx" events, we watched developments with much interest. Approached by the organising committee at TEDxNTU in Singapore, we were asked to do a talk on "The Next Step in Human Evolution" to an auditorium full of young professionals, academics, and university students. Check out the video and learn where we're headed in the future, and why the talk was rated best in the day-long event.
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| To help raise awareness in the business community about a wide range of sustainability issues, together with LOHAS Asia Pacific, we helped organised a series of "LOHAS Luncheons" targeting a wide cross section of business leaders. The focus was on exploring inter-relationships between different sectors, making new connections, and discussing ramifications for global trends. |
| To draw help draw attention to climate change and environmental issues for 10:10:10, we participated alongside many local business, civic, and NGO leaders in the 350 Singapore Public Board Room event. Check out more info and footage from the event. |
| What will the youth of today need to understand about the related issues of cleantech, energy, and climate change going into the future? How can they find opportunity in the face of adverse and ever changing times? We explored these themes in our headlining talk at the EnergyCarta Asian Youth Energy Summit 2010 held at National University of Singapore. |
| We're proud to be delivering a series of guest lectures and modules in the sustainability series at the National University of Singapore's School of Geography. Sustainability topics will include a wide range of subjects including energy, entrepreneurialism, economic factors, and environmental issues. This series will continue in 2011, and for your reference, one sample presentation can be found here. |
| The youth of today are instrumental to our future. It's vital they understand issues like climate change, and what it means to our society, environment, and economy. Since November 2008, we've been proud to help mentor Nexus, the student sustainability group based at Auckland University. Check out some of their great speakers and events on throughout the year! Also: calling all professionals! Nexus could use your help too. If you'd like to help mentor students, contact us to get started. |
| Can Permaculture principles be applied to a business model? We like to think so, and have been exploring the possibilities of this design methodology since 2005. Together with Gary Marshall, Finn Mackesy, and a local group interested in David Holmgren's work, we've explored how the concepts can be used to further the aims of business and better our environment at the same time. If you're keen to learn more, check out our presentation on the subject that was given at a talk in March 2009, and again in November at Singapore Green Drinks. If you would like to get the schedule for the Auckland modular PDC programme, send Gary an email. |
| What most to New Zealanders? In late 2007, we took part in a workshop hosted by Anew NZ and Statistics NZ to try and answer this question. The workshop was aimed at developing sustainability indicators that would give an accurate view of wellbeing and prosperity-- something which simply looking at GDP does not accomplish. The project continues and the results on the day were quite intriguing. |
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