https://www.scmp.com/rss/323980/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com You could say Canadian explorer, television presenter and sustainability advocate Ryan Pyle is living the dream. As he touches down in Hong Kong, one of many cities he visits regularly, to give a talk on environmentalism at City University, he is already thinking about where his next adventure will take him. That, and how Hong Kong has the potential to be the world’s greenest city, if it plays its cards right. “You know, things can actually get done here. An example is the new airport and the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3008227/hong-kong-could-be-world-leader-green-energy-and-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3008227/hong-kong-could-be-world-leader-green-energy-and-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:00:08 +0000 David Suzuki is a force of nature. The Canadian geneticist turned celebrity champion of the environment is operating on severe jet lag, two hours’ sleep and an ever-heightening world-weariness. But he fires off epithets, facts and acerbic quips with a vigour that’s as implausible as the ageless glow of his skin. “Humans value growth; that’s like cancer cells,” Suzuki, 80, says. We’re overpopulated and live in a finite world but are deluding ourselves that the opposite is true, he says. “We’re an... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2079813/david-suzuki-climate-sciences-caustic-dr-doom-rips-consumerism-hails?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2079813/david-suzuki-climate-sciences-caustic-dr-doom-rips-consumerism-hails?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:00:45 +0000 Off a dusty corridor in an industrial block in working-class Kwun Tong, a self-proclaimed spiritual guide, sells amulets laced with human bone fragments sourced from Thailand, and tends to her makeshift shrine. Children’s toys hang next to religious statuettes among droplets of wax and incense ash. An open box of pizza with congealed cheese lies on the floor next to fruit that has begun to rot: these are offerings to the ghosts and spirits believed to reside here. Hong Kong has plenty of ghost... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2067800/doll-dead-fetus-spirit-how-hongkongers-have-embraced-thai-occult-charms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2067800/doll-dead-fetus-spirit-how-hongkongers-have-embraced-thai-occult-charms?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:00:16 +0000