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City University of Hong Kong Sustainability Summit: Pathways to a Sustainable Hong Kong

Sustainability Summit: Pathways to a Sustainable Hong Kong

Sustainability Summit: Pathways to a Sustainable Hong Kong Executive Director and Presidential Professor of Practice Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University

City University of Hong Kong Synopsis of Forum Discussion Business & Social Sciences Science & Engineering Arts & Humanities

• Mutualistic systems design • Redesign our relationship to natural systems • Experiment to change the discussion • Academic research can’t be just “Write, write, write…count, count, count.” • “We are what we design. And our current design is not sustainable.” • Need outcome-based science at universities to address sustainability • “Sustainability is, at the end of the day, moving toward zero impact. Zero.” • “ Nonplaces ” • Social life in cities should be as important as economic life • COMMON THEMES: inclusiveness, design, innovation, public space, social life, conviviality • …and, of course, mussel choir, butterfly bridge, salamander super -hiway Roundtable discussion: Sustainable policy-making