‘Big city life’ is what most of young successful people strive for today. Moving to big cities like Shanghai is often seen as a recipe for success: build a career by speed of light, earn a lot of money and after few years of hectic and stressed life simply change your job. Life in the big cities is surely somehow comforting. Everything seems available at all times, quality social life, transportation, interactions that broaden our horizons, entertainment, convenient stores, bars, parks… It’s a never ending running around. We are slave of the city life time, always on-the-go, rarely stopping to self-reflect or to just have time to rest.

Join us for our 110th monthly sustainability forum on June 5th, also the World Environment Day, to engage in a public dialogue about our collective future. Will we thrive in cities or in the countryside? Could it really be that these individuals can show us a path which brings balance to both, our lives and the global ecosystem?

Note: Event will be in English.

Event Itinerary:

• 18:30-19:15 Registrations and networking
• 19:15-19:45 Andy Couturier speaking on The Abundance of Less
• 19:45-20:15 Moderated discussion / Q&A
• 20:15-20:45 Open discussion with the attendees
• 20:45-21:30 Networking / end of event

About the Speaker:

Andy Couturier is the American author of two books, Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and The Abundance of Less. He is the director of The Opening, a school for creative writing. His essays and articles on ecology, sustainable living, nuclear power have appeared in The Japan Times, The North American Review, Kyoto Journal, The Oakland Tribune, etc. 

He was recently awarded the prestigious 2017 NAUTILUS literature award in the category ecology and sustainability.

For more details visit www.greeninitiatives.cn or the official website for Andy's China trip www.taol.greeninitiatives.cn

Note: 

• Discount code applicable only to naked Hub members and staff. 
• Preference will be given to prepaid attendees. At-the-door attendees (without registration) will be required to pay 100RMB (subject to space availability).