Forum: Building a Sustainable, Green and Community Conscious World
How do you envision our future? With the growing issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, human overpopulation and overconsumption, experts predict that we are heading into a bleak future. With such critical environmental issues and the rise of more social ills, how do we expect our Earth to thrive and continue to support the future generation?
The most important question is: Can you, the man or woman on the street, make a difference? The answer is “Yes.” As human beings, we have a responsibility to leave the world better than we found it.
Discover how you can be part of a sustainable world by teaming up with others to form a community impacting the world through your conscious actions. This Forum features community leaders who are blazing the trail in Malaysia and changing the people’s mindset, one person at a time.
About Shirllin Ching
Social Entrepreneur
Founder, Kampung In the City
My name is Shirlin, and I’m the founder of Kampung In The City. I am dedicated to developing a sustainable community that lives harmoniously in alignment with nature.
Since I was young, I’ve been a child who wondered at the mysteries of life. I have explore the world, from the great mountains of Kailash and the Himalayas to the deep oceans of Cuba and South Africa, and from the material world of finance to the invisible inner world of energies around and within us, and I am still exploring
One thing that has become very clear to me is the infinite intelligence of Mother Nature and how we can learn immense wisdom by being still and observing nature. Even in movement and action there can be stillness, and in this stillness within is where the magic unfolds: We are all interconnected.
I always joke that I am a Jill of all trades and master of none. The term “all trades” comes with a caveat; it’s about everything that revolves around nature, living in harmony together with the wonderful mysteries of life. Kampung In The City is seven years in the making, and it reflects my own process of evolution and growth from an ignorant and arrogant city girl who knew nothing about soil, plants and how interconnected each system is to each other. Today, learning that the health of our air, water, earth-soil, microbes, insects, plants, animals, and humans are all closely interconnected; when one gets affected and damaged, everything else subsequently disintegrates as well.
Here at Kampung In The City, we strive to bring back the diversity, ecology and health of our environment by introducing and educating people about more sustainable practices such as growing our own food forest, wild fermentation, natural plant medicines, rain water harvesting, in situ composting and future projects such as solar energy, water filtration, biochar, wood vinegar, biogas, and etc. We aim to create a circular system where little gets wasted, and most resources are used up and regenerated by Mother Earth into the abundance of harvest that she so generously shares with us.
About Sudy Yeo
Environmental Activist and Circular Economy Advocate
Founder, Love.Sam.Pah
Sudy has been an environmental activist since the year 2007. While working as a researcher with a German waste management consultancy company which collaborates with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, she was exposed to the massive waste problem in Malaysia. Later, she gained experience in managing food waste which adopted the circular economy model where she helped a local company to manage their food waste sustainably.
Apart from being active in conducting environmental workshops on home composting and Ecobricks, she is the co-organiser of the Circular Economy Cub Malaysia Petaling Jaya chapter. She also spoke at several environmental-related events and is one of the active stakeholders with UNIDO & UNEP on marine litter and plastic management. She now runs her own Circular Economy consultancy firm called Love Sam Pah.
Sudy will share how we, as individuals, can be empowered to reduce waste and be mindful about our consumption and action towards waste.
About Elaine Wong
Creativepreneur and Artist
Co-founder of The Hatchery Place
Elaine Wong is a Creativepreneur and the co-founder of The Hatchery Place, a conscious creative movement. The Hatchery Place is a cozy in-home coworking + coliving + colearning founded by Elaine together with her partner, Kevin Yeoh. It is a space with an unpretentious personal style that welcomes all conscious creative nomads.
Formerly a Software Consultant, Elaine became a corporate quitter in 2015 to embark on her creative dream of becoming a full time artist (painter). She is a visionary and intuitive artist whose art practice serves as an extension of her quest to get to know herself deeper and through it, cultivate a more intimate connection with herself and with the universe as a whole. Her art studio is hosted at The Hatchery Place, where she shows up every day to grow her art and the community around her.
Located in a suburban home in Subang Jaya, Selangor, The Hatchery Place is the base for an inspiring community of creative souls who gather to share and exchange their skills, cultures, and experiences with each other. It is a platform that meets the requirements of travelling creative nomads, creators & makers to expand their opportunities, ignite creativity, promote innovation and cowork with the local neighbourhood’s creativepreneurs.
Founded by growth-oriented creative souls and nurtured by creative community builders, The Hatchery Place is an incubator of heart-centred friendships, creative inspirations and conscious endeavours that bring impact and illumination to the world around them.