Yesterday evening, sitting in my apartment looking out over Victoria harbour I actually read the South China Morning Post. Now for those of you that have never had the pleasure of the SCMP, it’s a bit like the village newspaper with a hefty dollop of sycophancy dressed up as Chinese patriotism. Its slightly better than the out & out propaganda in the China Daily … but only just.

Anyway, in Wednesdays supplements were a section on property & tucked inside that, another section on Corporate Social Responsibility, probably because in Hong Kong, real estate & CSR are such happy bedfellows! Still a swift perusal of said sections reveals that local companies have adopted a very sensible attitude to the environmental movement…

Local companies have turned to manufacturing LED lighting, small & large wind turbines, & flower pots made from starch & bamboo rather than plastic, to name just a few initiatives. While the majority of this is being exported to European & North American markets, it shows that Hong Kong companies have cottoned on to the money that can be made out of the environment

Sometimes, you just have to love this town