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Low carbon tips from Greenpeace’s “Coffee Meets Climate” Days
The Climate Crisis is affecting all of us, so everyone’s efforts matter in the face of climate change. Over 300 have joined our “Coffee Meets Climate” Event at Jao Tsung-I Academy, Hong Kong early October. Thank you all for taking part in the 2-day Greenpeace’s Low-Carbon Living Festival in which we exchange our learnings to…
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Shocking field investigation findings: messy brownfields scattered with high mountains of waste
Electronic waste is an elephant in the room – it occupies lands, its heavy metal pollutes the environment and loads the landfills. Though countless problems have been revealed and feature media coverage are seen from time to time, the issue persists. Why is it so? Could we do anything about it? Greenpeace decided there were…
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Let’s Talk About Climate Change: From seed to cup, coffee guru Goran Wong shares climate actions we can all take
Are you a coffee lover, a hipster perhaps? But did you know that coffee prices have spiked up recently because Brazil, the coffee giant, was affected by frost? Barista and Q-grader Goran Wong has more on how climate affects coffee production and how microclimate affects the quality of coffee. He’ll also share tips on tackling…
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Plastic-free Hunt on Cheung Chau, a joint community effort!
With a vision to extend the “Plastic-free Map” in Hong Kong, Greenpeace has been recruiting plastic-free community teams since 2018, engaging restaurants and shops to go plastic-free from district to district.
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The Vanishing Tastes: 5 Common Food Highly Influenced by Climate Crisis
Speaking of global warming, the faraway scenes of melting icebergs, overheated polar points, or wildfires set off in Australia would pop up in the minds of most Hong Kong people, projecting false images these happenings are too distant to many of us. In fact, they can be close to our mouths! Why is it? Numerous…
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“Plastics Goes Wild” into the Water Cycle – the First-ever Microplastics Quantity Survey in Hong Kong Countryside Streams Rings the Bells
Greenpeace has just conducted the first pilot survey on the quantity of microplastics in the countryside streams of Hong Kong. The finding is alarming: microplastics were recorded at the front end of the water cycle. To protect the environment, not only shall we leave no trace, but we shall also reduce waste from the source.
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Missing Brownfields: Hong Kong Brownfields Report 2021
The government identified 1,579 hectares of brownfields in its first official brownfield data in 2019. Using similar research methods, our research team identified 1,958 hectares of brownfields...
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Plastic-free Business Opportunities – Stories of 5 Hong Kong Business Owners
Greenpeace initiated the #PlasticFreeNow campaign in 2018. Since then, we have been mapping out plastic-free initiatives and encouraging possible solutions to the plastic waste issue. In 2021, the “citywide plastic-free investigation team” of our Plastic-free Community has been reactivated. We believe: “With you, It is Possible”. Here we are going to share the plastic-free strategies…
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7-Eleven Taiwan announces phase-out of single-use plastics, a first in Asia!
7-Eleven Taiwan has announced that it will phase out single-use plastics, the first major convenience store chain in Asia to do so. This is a big deal for Greenpeace’s plastic-free…
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7-Eleven announces single-use plastics phase-out in Taiwan, first in Asia: Greenpeace response
TAIPEI, 6 May 2021- 7-Eleven Taiwan has announced that it will phase out single-use plastics by 2050, the first major convenience store chain in Asia to do so.
