A Sea Change

Our Front & Female column is a series of conversations between women who are making an impact in their respective regions and fields

By Rachel Duffell

Sustainability scientist Yasmin Rasyid, who is the founder of NGO EcoKnights and sustainability director at Lendlease Malaysia, and social entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras, founder of sustainability media platform Green Queen, discuss their journeys into the space, how different sustainability is today compared to when they entered the field, and the lifestyle changes we should all be making. It was the early 1990s when Rasyid was first exposed to phrases such as “global warming” and “climate change”. She was studying marine biology, and the scientific evidence of such change was clear. She went on to work at WWF-Malaysia, where she felt that human behaviour was not being tackled and there was potential to affect change by targeting a younger population. This was what led her to eventually found EcoKnights in 2005 to…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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