
Who We Are
We are a team of technical sustainability professionals passionate about the transformative potential of education for sustainability.
We partner with students, school principals, teachers, facilities managers and leadership teams to unlock the sustainability learning that is embedded in school campuses and operations.
Our Team
Our team of engineers and environmental scientists have expertise spanning renewable energy, air conditioning, energy efficiency, building design, low carbon transport, air quality, finance, education for sustainability, communication, and data visualisation.
Our approach to sustainability in schools combines practical and substantive solutions with authentic educational opportunities and school-wide stakeholder engagement.
Our Founder – Anthony Dixon
Anthony Dixon is a renewable energy and sustainability expert and the founder of Metanoia and Helios Renewable Energy. Anthony founded Metanoia to offer schools an opportunity to make a difference to the sustainability of their campus and community through practical, accessible and effective solutions that benefit the operations of a school while also educating and empowering students.
Anthony’s diverse career has included Chief Executive Officer of ASB Biodiesel, Managing Director of Citigroup, Director of China Hydroelectric Corporation, Chief Operating Officer of ZEDFactory (a zero-carbon housing company), and Director of the Solar Electric Light Company. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics a masters in renewable energy engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Anthony has three children attending schools in Hong Kong.
“One Friday morning in March, 2019, over a thousand Hong Kong students gathered peacefully in Chater Garden to add their voices to those of millions of other school students around the world calling for more urgent progress addressing the climate crisis.
The response to this call, from educators and government ranged from condescension to silence, with little in between.
There was barely a word of acknowledgement from those quarters of the central issue – the seriousness of climate change for these students’ futures (Sir David Attenborough has called it “humanity’s greatest threat”) and the disastrous state of the planet they are inheriting from us.
“Our house is on fire and no one’s reacting,” was Greta Thunberg’s furious admonition. Silence and condescension must not be our only responses.
I established Metanoia to offer schools a better way to respond – not merely by making their campuses a little more sustainable but by engaging wholeheartedly with students to achieve the kind of deep transformation that a sustainable future requires and through that engagement to “make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” in the words of Raymond Williams.”
– Anthony