ByJennifer Kester
ByJennifer Kester,
Contributor.
Claire Chiang and her husband, Ho Kwon Pin, did not set out to become sustainability leaders.
Chiang, a sociologist, and Ho, a journalist, wanted a vacation home in Thailand and settled on a scenic lagoon-dotted tract along Phuket’s Bang Tao Bay. They thought they got a good deal but bought it without performing due diligence. Soon they were stunned to find out it was the site of a former tin mine and was toxic. But the pair got to work, enlisting the help of environmental experts to rehabilitate the land. “We never gave up,” she says. “That challenge actually became an opportunity.”
