Sunday Lam

From the busy city of Hong Kong to the peaceful Australian bush, Sunday embodies the multicultural identity of Australia and highly respectful of the traditional custodians of this land, past, present, and emerging.

Sunday is 22 and an aspiring social entrepreneur. “I grew up in Dja Dja Wurrung, Castlemaine, and now live in Gariwerd (Halls Gap, Grampians, Victoria) learning and contributing to this place of the natural spirit. With a global perspective of over 15 countries and the near completion of my environmental science degree, he aims to have a significant impact on society for environmental and cultural justice.

Sunday is the founder of the Earth Care Organisation - ECO Aus, a not-for-profit social enterprise that he is currently developing. He is a sustainability advocate from the University of Melbourne and an active volunteer in the team 'Eco Heros' where they are implementing environmental education in the UoM's Early Childhood Learning Center.

In 2020, he won the Green Impact Australasia Award. In Gariwerd (Halls Gap) he organised and hosted tree planting events, volunteered in Parks Victoria with conservation events, and practice permaculture in the community.

“With 14 years of hospitality experience, I have grown to love the trade, living the artistic lifestyle. Throughout my journey, I have been involved with ethical business development from the age of 8. Starting with my family business Taste of the Orient, establishing the North Kitchen (now Cream town) where I was the staff manager and head barista as a 19-year-old, and now working at the Adventure cafe/restaurant, Moco gallery, and Adventure golf in Halls Gap. All these restaurants provide healthy and holistic food and drinks made with love, using local organic and free-range ingredients. Food is culture, food is life, food is medicine, and I believe that there is massive potential for Aboriginal Australian cuisine. Native vegetation is not only exquisite in taste and super nutritious (vegan and gluten-free) but also highly drought tolerant. Cultivation requires traditional Landcare practices such as cultural burning to germinate the seeds. Cultural burning is also essential for bushfire reduction, environmental protection, and biodiversity conservation. The highly interconnected relationship between Indigenous people and the ecosystem makes them keystone species to this country. With consideration of climate change, I believe that we need to stop attempting to re-invent the wheel. The solutions already exist, we just need to simply listen, and learn from the elders of this country.