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Shop The Redress Closet

Reduce waste in fashion and remember to bring your own bag.

After a decade of organizing secondhand pop-ups, the time has come for our permanent shop to reduce textile waste and to offer accessible and fashionable ways to lessen (more…)

Happy

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

This week, we are changing the mood. It’s easy to find reasons to get depressed. Streams of bad news fill our feeds every day. Algorithms create billionaires selling (more…)

PETITION: Stop wildlife traffickers in HK

Hong Kong is a wildlife trafficking hub and current laws are not enough. Change could be coming, show your support and sign the petition to break the chain (more…)

Fin: The Movie

Hollywood’s latest scary movie is all about saving some of the 100 million sharks slaughtered every year.

OceansAsia founder Gary Stokes has finally revealed the secret project he has been taking part in and it’s a real life scary shark movie. “Everybody does blame China, (more…)

Plastic tableware consultation

Share your thoughts on the use of single use plastics in Hong Kong.

The HK government public consultation on on regulation of Disposable Plastic Tableware has started. The scheme proposes banning the local sale of disposable tableware with catering premises providing (more…)

Force

This week, we are talking physics. Gentle or brutal, energy always moves. The pendulum swings one way and then back. Some resist while others leverage the momentum. Extremes (more…)

Tolo Channel Boat Field Trip

Prof Jed Kaplan will again lead a boat geological and geomorphological excursion to the beautiful the Tolo Channel along the inaccessible northeastern coast and islands of Hong Kong. (more…)

A Profile of Modern Slavery by Matthew Friedman

There are more slaves in the world today than any other time in history.

Enter the world of human trafficking and explore what we can do together to end this crime. “Where Were You?” A Profile of Modern Slavery is available on (more…)