The 'Hong Kong Earth Champions Quest' has begun.
An international group started a search yesterday to find extraordinary Hongkongers who are improving and sustaining the environment locally and globally.
'Our point of view is look around you and notice what is working, and they're the people we'd love you to nominate,' said Earth Champions Foundation chief executive Fiona Mathews at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Central.
'It actually could be you, or it could be your neighbour, or it could be a colleague at work, or it could be your government,' she said.
Ms Mathews - a former member of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development - created the organisation in 2000 to prove to her son that the world was filled with inspiring role models.
The competition, which has already taken place in Australia and Switzerland, honours people for their work in such environmental categories as water, air, energy, transport, biodiversity and buildings.
'We have ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and that's what we want you to help us find,' Ms Mathews said at the kick-off event.
