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  • Walk with 2Rivers: Don’t burn out, survive life challenges with lessons from mangosteen trees that teach survival and sustainability

    The durians are dropping and mangosteens are ripening. We can already see those reddish-purple gems peeping through the thick foliage. But we wonder if this season will bear an abundant harvest. It takes 10 to 12 months for mangosteens to flower and fruit and another few months to ripen. And if the conditions are right…

  • 2R Journal: The ant principle in building work culture

    Ever watched ants work? In such regimented and resolute manner that tempts you to disrupt their organised trail? Organizations do well to apply the ants principle to the modern workforce management. Walking down a path outside the lodge we couldn’t help contemplating how ants have no managers, no KPI and no micromanagement – yet they…

  • 2R Journal: Resilience and adaptability of the tree frogs

    Living in times of uncertainty, nature is the best school to learn resilience and adaptability. It is not necessary that the largest and most powerful animals are the ones to impart these lessons. Often it is the small animals like the Malaysian tree frog that can show us how adaptable it can be. The pads…

  • Take a closer look to find gems on the land

    Can’t wait for these gems to be ready for harvest. The different fruit and flowering seasons make it such a joy to walk around the land. We just have to take a closer look, up and down, to catch a flower that has bloomed overnight or the tail of a lizard sticking out from under…

  • Growing food intentionally to feed a community

    Whether it is a handful of wild beans or a handful of berries i have come to realise that the community in general have become so disconnected with the land as a food source. In putting this down, it feels less like an observation and more like a quiet admission of how far we’ve drifted.…

  • Learning Without Borders

    Learning Without Borders

    Growth rarely happens within the confines of a job description. Sometimes, as in this case for logistic execuitve Mohd Aiman Mohd Rosli and Executive Assistant cum Human Resource Jolene Ong, it begins in a forest.

  • Three carpenters at Two Rivers

    Three carpenters at Two Rivers

    Every day, they drove one and a half hours from Kuala Lumpur to Tanjong Malim, long before the site stirred. The same car. The same seats. The same road unfolding and folding back into itself. One can imagine the conversations inside that Wira — practical at first, then drifting. Traffic. Weather.