Bridge HK

If we don’t get a hold of ourselves the next century, most of the world is going to be a toxic desert, and then here and there there will be very well-defended pleasure domes in which a very small number of incredibly wealthy people will live out lives of utterly self-indulgent, hedonistic fantasy in denial of the moral catastrophe that they participated in in order to achieve that hedonic state of isolation.



We have to teach people to care for each other as the primary value. We have to have community. We now have a free-for-all where the most brutal among us rise to the top and everybody else has a foot on their neck.
- Terrance McKenna, Earth Trust Lecture Series
https://youtu.be/ErCxNyrjMEI?t=700

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The green recovery: three ways it will be spurred by the grassroots We look at how the grassroots is mobilising to tackle the climate emergency as part of the green recovery from the coronavirus crisis

who likes autumn in the hills? 🇭🇰🍂

"Why undertake resilience building in communities, rather than attempting to do so at the national or international level? It’s because the community is the most available and effective level of scale at which to intervene in human systems. National action is difficult these days, and not only in the United States: discussions about nearly everything quickly become politicized, polarized, and contested. It’s at the community level where we most directly interact with the people and institutions that make up our society. It’s where we’re most affected by the decisions society makes: what jobs are available to us, what infrastructure is available for our use, and what policies exist that limit or empower us. And critically, it’s where the majority of us who do not wield major political or economic power can most directly affect society, as voters, neighbors, entrepreneurs, volunteers, shoppers, activists, and elected officials."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-12-17/the-big-picture/"

The Big Picture - Resilience The Big Picture adds both a sense of urgency, and also a new set of priorities that are currently being neglected and should be communicated clearly.

“In trying to think conservatively about the possibility of a non-human local intelligence, it seems to me that in a way nature herself presents as an intelligence—that the understanding of nature is the understanding of complex integrated systems of such complexity that to deny them consciousness is just a reluctance of the reductionist mind; that for anyone not burdened by that prejudice it’s self-evident that nature is alive, cognizant, responding.”
- Terence McKenna

We spent our Saturday musing over plants, permaculture and people. Our Urban Growing Kickstarter workshop is designed to give you the confidence to start growing and maintaining edibles and ornamentals in your home through a holistic design lens. If you have a passion for plants or simply want to dip your toes into something new, give this workshop a try!🌱

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BEAUTIFUL Hong Kong growing calendar ~ 🌱

- Courtesy of Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

remember the mung beans we planted way back? they're a good 'cover crop' and make a good harvest too 🌱

lamma you ain't so bad ~

what are the similarities between soil & our guts? 🌱 more than you'd think!

find out more at our workshop on gut health, next Sunday at our beautiful permaculture spot on lamma island 🌴
rsvp - [email protected]

more over at:
bridgehk.org/workshops

Who likes weekends (& animals)?

Miike Snow - Animal [Mark Ronson Remix] nice mark ronson-remix of the song animal by miike snow.

BLACK GOLD! 🐾

One of our HOT composts has officially been sieved after daily turning & adding of food scraps, garden trimmings, cow manure & all sorts of other yummy things.

This stuff is so densely populated with all sorts of microbes & critters that only a little sprinkled layer is needed on a garden bed.

Found in this one when sieving (after resting) were sprouted seeds from pumpkins, longans, lychees, mangos, avocados, garlic cloves, and many more that we can only identify when grown :)
@ Lamma Island