"Malaysia Sustainable Development Icon"
ICON is defined as One who is the object of great attention and devotion. That deserving person you know MUST fulfill our simple 3 Criteria that we have always discussed at length in this blog. That person must demonstrate the ability to walk the talk when it comes to balancing the Triple P: People, Planet and Prosperity.
Frankly speaking, sdmalaysia feels that we don't have many such Icons in this country. For a start, even the "World Greenest Man"living in this country is a German Gentlemen by the name of Matthias Gelber :)
We unanimously believe that one Malaysian that should be the Malaysia SD Icon would be Malaysian Second Prime Minister aka Father of Development, the late Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein Al-Haj. In many ways, we have seen the evidences of his leadership in PM office from 1970-976 have reaped sustainable results for majority of the citizen. Had SD was the buzzword back then, he should have be known as Father of Sustainable Development :)
In this new century, Malaysia need many more SD icons that can be the change agent to our society. Recently, sdmalaysia attended the Merdeka Award to celebrate the equivalent of Noble Prize Award for deserving Malaysians in various fields.
Congratulations to all the three of them especially Dr Ken Yeang a world prolific green architect. We reckon that he is one suitable candidate of SD Icon especially when you can find him in Wikipedia :).
So, do you really have an SD Icon that you can have in your community? Please let us know because we all need to be inspired by these extraordinary Malaysians !
Cheers :)
