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Articles and features on living a green lifestyle for millennials, from eco-friendly and sustainable living, to veganism, environment, recycling and renewables.
The Benboo lighting trio, comprising a table lamp, floor lamp and wall lamp that pay tribute to bamboo in copper, designed by Studio RYTE. Photo: Hong Kong Interior Design Week
Architecture and design

A piece of Hong Kong in your living room

Heritage and urban living inform a collection of locally designed and crafted furniture on show in Milan, Italy, as part of Hong Kong Interior Design Week.

Sustainability

Can this eco-tech platform revolutionise sustainable packaging?

Fashion

‘It’s what I’ve dreamed of’. Lab-grown diamonds are on the rise

Food and Drinks

How hyperlocal practices are transforming Hong Kong’s fine dining scene

As the city’s restaurants delve deeper into sustainable practices, hyperlocal ingredients are helping to reduce footprints while creating incredible new dishes.

Chef Zinc Leung and his team. Photo: Sushi Zinc
Fashion

‘Fear is not an option’ for Diane von Furstenberg, ‘still kicking’ at 78

The fashion designer reflects on risk taking, what her mother’s experiences taught her, and creating a dress still popular 51 years on.

Asia travel

City near Mount Fuji creates unique lodgings in unused buildings

In Shizuoka, Japan, commercial spaces are being turned into guest accommodation to draw more visitors and help revitalise the city’s economy.

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Fashion

From fashion shopaholic to eco-activist, one woman’s story

After learning about fast fashion and its impact on the environment, reformed shopaholic Lee So-yeon hasn’t bought clothes in 6 years.

South Korean Lee So-yeon was a fast-fashion shopaholic before she found out how wasteful it was. She has not bought any new clothes for the past six years. Photo: AFP
Wellness

Paper tissues or handkerchiefs, which is better for you and the planet?

Cloth handkerchiefs are more sustainable than disposable tissues, although they can harbour germs if not washed or stored properly.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong to end pilot plastic recycling scheme as Green@Community expands

‘Centralised Waste Plastics Collection’ pilot programme will end on January 19 as recycling habits in the city have matured, official says.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Opinion | What Hong Kong’s 2023 waste data tells us, and what it doesn’t

The good news of less waste generated is tempered by the lack of clarity on plastic waste statistics and officials’ mistaken faith in incineration as a solution.

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Greenpeace campaigners calling for a cut in plastic production at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on October 19. Its survey found that 97 per cent of the waste collected from two ecologically important riverbanks is plastic. Photo: Dickson Lee
Fashion

Are second-hand gifts the new trend? UK charity shops do a brisk trade

This Christmas, a time of year often criticised for promoting consumerism, more Britons than ever before are buying ‘preloved’ gifts.

A customer browses second-hand items inside an Oxfam charity shop in London. This Christmas, more people than ever are buying “preloved” gifts from charity shops and online second-hand retailers. Photo: AFP
Asia travel

Hong Kong family holidays more likely to include grandparents

Multigenerational travel a trend in Hong Kong, accommodation website says, as well as dark-sky tourism, wellness retreats and sustainability.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Food recycling surges at Hong Kong estates even without waste-charging scheme

Asked if shelved waste-charging scheme will be relaunched, environment chief says tools ‘we use are actually secondary’.

Business of climate change

Hong Kong start-up develops AI-powered smart bin to tackle recycling

Green AI’s smart collection bin can sort waste into four categories – plastic bottles , aluminium cans, drinks cartons and general refuse.

Cola Lam, CEO of Green Al Technology, gives a demonstration of the smart sorting bin at the company’s offices at Hong Kong Science Park in Sha Tin. Photo: Edmond So
Tourism

From Notre Dame to Arc de Triomphe, a green facelift for Paris

Notre Dame reopens in Paris in December, and the city has plans to revitalise other monuments by integrating them with green space and trees.

The busy Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris. Changes are planned to reduce traffic flow. Photo: Instagram/barcelona.travelers
Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong should do more to pressure producers of single-use plastics: Greenpeace

Group finds plastic made up 97 per cent of rubbish collected in two rivers, with packaging from major drinks brands among most prevalent.

Xi Jinping

China to get first centrally run resource reuse and recycling enterprise

President Xi Jinping calls China Resources Recycling Group, to be set up in Tianjin, a major step towards building a ‘low-carbon economy’.

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Sustainability

Corsets made from airbags? Fashion designers upcycle car parts

Resourceful fashion designers make clothes and accessories using everything from wheels to seat belts, as carmakers focus on material reuse.

A corset made from airbag fabric in collaboration with carmaker Hyundai. Photo: Hyundai
Family offices

Hong Kong tycoon Peter Lee looks for good karma in green investments

The Towngas chairman and devout Buddhist hopes to create a more sustainable future through his family office investments.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong firms to face warnings, fines for flouting plastics ban after grace period

Environment chief Tse Chin-wan says errant retailers will be issued warnings on-site and given 10 working days to comply.

Fashion

How Kojima, Japan, made a name for top-quality denim

Hand-dyed denim and vintage machines are used to make jeans that sell for up to US$1,400 a pair in town where even the roads are denim blue.

A seamstress at Momotaro Jeans makes jeans using a vintage sewing machine. Photo: AP
Hong Kong environmental issues

Green group records first sighting of rare dragonfly in Hong Kong during survey

Green Power discovers Asiatic blood tail, also known as Lathrecista asiatica, while conducting survey near Lantau Island’s Tung Chung River.

Green Power was behind the first recorded sighting of Lathrecista asiatica in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
ESG investing

Hong Kong has strengths to aid sustainability goals in mainland China: survey

Hong Kong can provide intellectual support in terms of talent and guidance on capital flows, according to a research report on sustainability trends.

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Hong Kong environmental issues

Letters | Hong Kong can definitely stomach a robust food waste reduction strategy

Readers discuss how the government can encourage reduction of food waste, and steps residents can take to support such initiatives.

Fashion

Reworked silver, suits and shirts on show at Copenhagen Fashion Week 2025

Copenhagen Fashion Week was packed with eco-conscious looks, from upcyclers giving new life to old pieces and designers sourcing deadstock fabric to a jeweller recycling metals.

A model walks the runway in the Skall Studio show at Copenhagen Fashion Week, which was packed with eco-conscious looks from Danish designers. Photo: James Cochrane
Asean

Opinion | China and Australia can team up to boost Asean’s energy transition

China’s EV supply-chain investments in the region come with environmental and social challenges – which sustainable miner Australia can help solve.

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Activists display posters reading “stop buying Indonesia’s dirty nickel” and “Indonesia has become a sacrifice zone for the electric vehicle industry” in Jakarta on June 13. Australia’s waste management practices, mine site rehabilitation and indigenous community engagement have often been cited as global examples of sustainable mining. Photo: AFP
Better Living

How interior design is embracing quiet luxury – and sustainability

Sustainability goals are leading homeowners to opt for decors that are quietly elegant and go beyond just being appealing to the eye

Hong Kong housing

Inside Hong Kong’s hassle-free serviced apartments and co-living spaces

For new arrivals to the city, serviced apartments and co-living spaces such as those from Xin Management, Skyla and Weave take the stress out of setting up a home

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