Climate Fair

Taiwan’s first climate marketplace of ideas, professionalism, awareness, emotion, ocean, and environmental flow.

Because of climate, environment, and the ocean, life gathers here
and so do those whose professionalism shines.

I am a diver and climber with a double major in mountain and sea.

In this first narrative bringing together environment, ocean, and climate, the point of entry isn’t data, text, or argument — it’s the fact that I went there, arrived there, placed myself inside it, and was struck and embraced by nature’s SUBLIME.

April 11, we’re at the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology.

We gather here because of the emotion, reason, and sensibility we’ve each invested in the climate.

Across three major domains
Pioneer × Food × Climate

19 speakers and ten climate issues bring forward a heavy weight of opinions, viewpoints, and solutions, so that together we can set in motion the emergence of climate opinion leaders.

For the sake of

the ocean,

the forests,

habitats,

and

the climate.

As an international ecosystem and landscape explorer, a student with a double major in mountain and sea.

30 years in planning-driven business, spanning the leisure industry, leisure agriculture, agriculture, seasonal-solar-term cuisine, farming/forestry/fishing/animal husbandry, and the ocean.

Now, Seed Design has arrived at environment and climate.

Different trades are worlds apart.
I have a dream, by Martin Luther King

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), believes that you no longer need to be a biologist to save the planet
What’s needed instead is cross-disciplinary expertise and collaboration.

What matters most in climate action is whether it creates ripples — and whether those ripples can go further and build into waves. The momentum generated must never be allowed to scatter and stall. So after curating “Ocean Future Tense, New Normal,” I worked together with Seed Design to curate a series of single-day workshops held at the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, focused on making action actually happen.

On the theme itself: having observed in the Nordic countries and in Chamonix, France, that nearly every international outdoor-gear brand adheres to one insistent philosophy

that the best gear is the gear you already own — and that every one of these brands puts real thought into designing for the end-of-life of their products, I noticed that regenerated gear, because it has accompanied you to far places and witnessed things you had to arrive in person to be astonished by, offers — on the premise of being already saturated with meaning

the possibility of customization, deepening the bond between person and object even further, and carrying out a sustainable practice within the circular economy. Out of this, I set the direction for an Upcycling “Re-Art Camp”: I spent a full week specifically collecting marine debris on beaches in central Taiwan, and during the event we used that ocean waste to make “sea-waste monster fish” and other individual pieces. Alongside that, I collaborated with Teacher Wang Wan-Hsuan, founder of Rouge Food, on a fermentation experiment exploring the future of pickled seaweed.

To me, seaweed is synonymous with the future
it’s the one plant in this world I have genuine feeling for. So we tried to explore the possibilities of blue-green by, in effect, sealing away a piece of the ocean itself.

But this is only the overture
only the setup. My ultimate goal is to bring together, through the sheer force of gathering, a marketplace, a community, and a think tank made up of luminous lives who deeply love, understand, and want to draw close to climate, environment, and the ocean. This year, the thesis I want to focus on is “the emergence of climate opinion leaders,” because I believe there are only four kinds of expertise that can genuinely bring a come-from-behind, positive turnaround for climate, environment, and the ocean: decision-makers, entrepreneurs, scientific researchers, and opinion leaders.

I often question whether my own personal capacity to act is too weak, and how easily I could, in fact, make and change my own behavior
yet I don’t want simple behavior, and I refuse to let my own sense of what’s “reachable” define limits that could clearly be surpassed. So I dug deeply into the relationship between climate action and opinion leaders, and identified nine major targets for action:

Marine biodiversity; the front lines of climate change, crisis, and green recovery/ocean waste and sustainable enterprise; the ideal climate-adaptive city; food competitions responding to climate change; climate-adaptive architecture; how restoring nature can heal the climate; how media report on climate adaptation and capture the victims of climate crisis; and how artificial intelligence can respond to climate change.

From there, I selected international opinion leaders and activists who are deeply immersed in these areas
People like Antoine Moses, the world-record holder for planting the most trees within 24 hours — hoping to invite pioneering figures of this kind, in both thought and action, to share at the forum how they discovered, cultivated, trained, and grew their own motivation, so as to deliver a powerful, hope-filled blow at the very center of climate strategy and for the ocean.