Sustainable Footprints SDGs in Taiwan

Sustainable Footprints: SDGs in Taiwan takes you across Taiwan to discover the people, ideas, and everyday actions shaping a better future. From green innovation and sustainable food to education and net-zero solutions, these inspiring stories show how local action can create global impact.

This Sustainable Farm Is Rethinking Holistic Care-Sustainable Footprints Ep. 5

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Modelled on northern European care homes, Saint Mary’s Health Farm is a unique blueprint of sustainable practices and holistic care in Taitung, Taiwan. Incorporating universal design principles, the farm combines a range of therapeutic techniques and social spaces designed to provide community and care for anyone who visits. This interview with the farm’s director explores the intersections of community, holistic and environmental care. Saint Mary’s Health Farm Director Albert Wang sits down with host Pai Pei-hua to discuss his therapy farm in Taitung. Designed to help people recover from traumatic events and learn to cope with life's stresses, the farm provides vital community healthcare. They discuss the farm’s design, which emphasizes active recovery through connecting with the land. Care combines physical and mental therapies that simultaneously promote environmental care. This means that the activities and practices the farm promotes naturally support net zero and sustainability goals, such as providing a zero-carbon mobile meal service to local citizens in need. Discover more about the unique ways Taiwan is addressing social care issues alongside caring for the environment in this episode of “Sustainable Footprints.”

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