Introduction

​​​​Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) is an initiative co-created by KFBG and its network of collaborators and volunteers. By integrating the various strands of KFBG’s nature conservation, sustainable living and holistic education programmes, it provides life-transforming learning experiences that reconnect people with themselves, each other and the rest of nature and enable them to cultivate resilience in the face of global challenges.

As part of this unfolding initiative, we have invited world-renowned ecological speakers to share knowledge and inspiration that can help us shift towards an ecologically centred worldview. Through a series of online talks, we hope to rekindle our connection to the earth and all living beings in a time of increasing challenges. Join us on this journey of care and reverence for the Earth and one another. 

 “Cooking the Message” with Jhon Kwano

Jhon is an elder from the Lani tribe in the highlands of New Guinea, the largest island in Melanesia. In this talk, Jhon will share the knowledge of his culture, the challenges they face and his experience of encountering the modern world. He will guide us in how to receive messages from nature and integrate them into our lives.

“When you receive a message from Nature,
don't try to understand it. Hold it, cook it and keep it.”

Date: 2022 Dec 12 (Mon)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
Details and Application: Click HERE
Recording: Click HERE

“Inspiring Hope Through Action” with Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE

Over 60 years ago, Jane Goodall first set foot onto the shores of what is today Tanzania’s Gombe National Park to begin her pioneering chimpanzee behavioural studies. In the last six decades, this research has transformed scientific perceptions of the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. Today, Jane’s mission has evolved into a quest to empower every individual to make the world a better place for people, other animals, and the planet we share. Dr. Jane Goodall, a world-renowned ethologist and conservationist, will share with us the stories of how she inspires hope through action.

Jane has been a friend of KFBG for many years, visited our nature reserve and presented at our premises. We are very pleased to have her back at KFBG, even though it is online, and we hope you can join her talk!

Date: 2022 Oct 24 (Mon)
Time: 5 - 6pm HKT (9 - 10am GMT)
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Recording: Click HERE

“Can humanity live within the Doughnut?” with Kate Raworth

The Doughnut is a compass for 21st century development that meets the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. A planet where no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend – such as a stable climate, fertile soils, and a protective ozone layer. What would that mean in practice for the diverse situation of the world’s nations? Kate Raworth, author of the internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, will present examples from cities and places worldwide that are putting the Doughnut at the heart of their future vision and turning it into action.

Date: 2022 Oct 4 (Tues)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
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Recording: Click HERE

"Opening of the Heart in connection with Nature" by Claire Elouard

Join Claire to be in touch with different qualities of nature that can support us in the opening of our heart and self-transformation: how we can get inspired by nature’s adaptability, resilience, abundance, generosity and simply being in the present.

Date: 2022 Aug 11 (Thurs)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
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Recording: Click HERE

"From Permaculture to Transition and beyond…" by Rob Hopkins

In this talk, Rob will share his journey from being a permaculture teacher in Ireland to founding the Transition movement, and then to where his work and his thinking are taking him now. He'll share stories of community-led change from around the world, explore the Transition model and how it came about, and then share the work he's doing at the moment with its focus on the cultivation of more imaginative communities and the creation of an 'imagination infrastructure'.  Bill McKibben once wrote "there’s no one on earth who's just done more [environmental] stuff – and inspired more doing – than Rob Hopkins".

Date: 2022 Jul 11 (Mon)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
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"Gaia and the Health of our Planet" by Stephan Harding

In this talk we will explore the relationships between living beings and the rocks, atmosphere and waters of our planet and will discover how together these give rise to Gaia - our emergent self-regulating earth. We'll explore the importance of biodiversity for maintaining Gaia's health and will consider how myth, dream and story can help us re-discover ways of living well within the limits set for humanity by the living dynamics of our planet.

Date: 2022 May 27 (Fri)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
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Recording: Click HERE

“In Celebration of the Living Earth” by Satish Kumar

For a long time in the past and even now many scientists look at the Earth and see it as a dead rock. But there are a number of enlightened scientists and ecologists, led by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, who have realised that our precious planet Earth is a living organism. This is the new science of Gaia, which connects with the ancient Greek mythology of Earth goddess as well the Indian mythology of goddess Gayatri.

Date: 2022 Apr 22 (Fri)
Time: 6 - 7:30pm HKT (10 - 11:30am GMT)
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Recording: Click HERE

​​Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) is an initiative co-created by KFBG and its network of collaborators and volunteers. By integrating the various strands of KFBG’s nature conservation, sustainable living and holistic education programmes, it provides life-transforming learning experiences that reconnect people with themselves, each other and the rest of nature and enable them to cultivate resilience in the face of global challenges.